3/20/2019

BREXIT/BRITAIN/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has offered the British prime minister advice on Brexit. The president’s son said this week that she should have followed it. Donald Trump Jr. accused ‘the European elites’ of trying to sabotage Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, in an op-ed  in  The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday [3-20-19]. He put some of the blame on Prime Minister Theresa May, and declared that ‘democracy in the U.K. is all but dead’…It is unclear what expertise Mr. Trump has in British and European politics and government, or whether Britons care about what he has to say. But his views appear to align with his father’s. During a visit to Britain last summer, President Trump told Mrs. May to ‘sue the E.U.,’ according to her account of the meeting — advice the prime minister dismissed in favor of negotiating.”

Palko Karasz, “Donald Trump Jr. Scolds Theresa May Over Brexit: ‘Was It All a Ruse?’,” The New York Times online, March 20, 2019