Trump Is An 'Asteroid of Awfulness,' U.K. Labour Party Says
Source: Bloomberg
Donald Trump is an “asteroid of awfulness,” said the U.K. Labour Party’s spokeswoman on foreign affairs, Emily Thornberry, deepening the rift between Britain’s main opposition and the U.S. president.
“He is an asteroid of awfulness that has fallen on this world,” Thornberry said in an interview on BBC television’s "Andrew Marr Show” on Sunday. “I think that he is a danger and I think that he is a racist.”
Thornberry’s remarks came after a week in which Trump called off a planned London visit next month to open the new U.S. Embassy, saying he didn’t like the deal to move the mission. He also was reported to have described Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries,” a comment that may have spurred Thornberry’s “racist” accusation. Trump has denied using the language.
The comments may have greater significance because Thornberry would be foreign secretary if Labour wins the next general election. While no vote is due until 2022, Prime Minister Theresa May runs a minority administration that’s vulnerable to defeats and the possibility of an early election. While May herself hasn’t had the easiest relationship with Trump, she’s relying on the U.S. as a partner for a future trade deal once Britain leaves the EU.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-14/trump-branded-asteroid-of-awfulness-by-u-k-labour-party
My favorite headline of the year so far...
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The Observer view on Donald Trump
Observer editorial
The president is a disgrace to his country on so many levels
See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/14/observer-view-on-donald-trump
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"The fundamental failing underlying Trump’s presidency is his willful ignorance. His frequently petulant, childish behaviour combines with a staggering lack of knowledge and contempt for facts to produce serial, chronic misjudgments. Trump, in power, cannot be trusted. He has been exposed as lacking in empathy, shamelessly mendacious, cynical and unversed or uninterested in the enduring human and constitutional values his office is sworn to uphold. Trump is the first and hopefully the last of his kind: an anti-American president. He is a disgrace and a danger to his country. The sooner he is sent packing, the better."
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But mostly, like the planet Jupiter, he is a gas giant.
