BREXIT/JOE BIDEN/TRADE DEALS/UK: “We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 16, 2020 10:48 am […]
Category: Brexit
12/16/2019
BREXIT/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Here in America it will be the same victory as BREXIT, but even more so. In the U.S., while all of this has been going on, the Impeachment, the obstruction, the resistance, President Trump has managed to deliver not just promises, but a record which adds up to one…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/16/2019
BREXIT/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Here in America it will be the same victory as BREXIT, but even more so. In the U.S., while all of this has been going on, the Impeachment, the obstruction, the resistance, President Trump has managed to deliver not just promises, but a record which adds up to one…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/28/2019
BREXIT/BRITAIN/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump attacked U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday [8-28-19] for aggressively pushing for a vote of no confidence against newly minted Prime Minister Boris Johnson…Corbyn told reporters he would attempt to challenge Johnson with a vote of no confidence after Johnson announced in a letter to Conservative […]
6/4/2019
BREXIT/BRITAIN/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday [6-4-19] that he believed Brexit would eventually happen, adding that Britain is ‘a very, very special place and I think it deserves a special place.’ The comments came in the Durbar Court of the Foreign Office […]
6/4/2019
BREXIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “Donald Trump is using his U.K. state visit to anoint Brexit winners and losers. The president on Tuesday [6-4-19] fully cast his lot with political leaders pushing for Britain to crash out of the European Union — and in the process trampled on diplomatic norms that foreign leaders generally avoid meddling in […]
6/4/2019
BREXIT/UK: [Reporter: “What is your current view on Brexit, sir?”] “I understand the issue very well. I really predicted what was going to happen. Some of you remember that prediction. It was a strong prediction, made at a certain location, on a development we were opening the day before it happened. And I thought it […]
4/23/2019
BREXIT/BRITAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Britain plans to welcome President Trump with the formality of a state visit in June, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday [4-23-19], two and a half years after first extending the invitation. Prime Minister Theresa May first conveyed the invitation for a state visit to Mr. Trump when he took office in 2017. […]
4/10/2019
BREXIT/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. The E.U. is likewise a brutal trading partner with the United States, which will change. Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
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 […]
3/14/2019
BREXIT/OBAMA/UK: [Reporter: “Mr. President, you were a great supporter of Brexit initially. Are you still a great supporter of Brexit given how things are playing out?”] “Well, I was. It wasn’t that I was a supporter. I predicted it was going to happen, and I was right. And people laughed when I predicted it, and […]
3/14/2019
BREXIT/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump expressed skepticism Thursday [3-14-19] that the United Kingdom could put the question of whether to leave the European Union to another vote, saying it would be unfair. In a news conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Trump said he was ‘surprised at how badly’ Brexit negotiations have gone […]
7/15/2018
BREXIT/BRITAIN/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday [7-15-18] revealed the advice President Trump had given her on how to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union: Go straight to court. Mrs. May was asked by the BBC about comments Mr. Trump made both in an interview in the British tabloid The Sun and […]
7/14/2018
BREXIT/BRITAIN/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because ‘everybody wants me to’ and there are no Democratic candidates who could defeat him, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported…Before leaving Britain for a summit in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump breached British royal protocol by […]
7/13/2018
BREXIT/BRITAIN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “President Donald Trump affirmed his commitment to striking a trade deal with the U.K., seeking to walk back earlier comments in which he criticized Prime Minister Theresa May’s approach to Brexit and said her plan would ‘kill’ the chances of such a deal. His softening of his criticism saved Mrs. May […]
7/13/2018
BREXIT/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRSIDENT/UK: “President Donald Trump warned U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May that a plan her government released Thursday [7-12-18] outlining its future economic relationship with the European Union, if implemented, could ‘kill’ the nation’s chances of striking a bilateral trade deal with the U.S. The public rebuke of Mrs. May, published hours after […]