He said: “We don’t do the kind of trade we could do with what some people say is Great Britain, and some people remember a word you don’t hear too much is the word England, which is a piece of it,” he added as something of an aside — seemingly a somewhat cryptic reference to the was the largest of Britain’s Home Nations has been increasingly erased from public discourse.
The President said he believes Boris Johnson has “what it takes” to be a great prime minister, adding pointedly that the British “needed him for a long time… for a long time” — like an allusion to the American’s low opinion of Theresa May’s handling of Brexit.
The President also praised Queen Elizabeth II, much admired by his late mother Mary, who was originally from Scotland, as a “tremendous woman, incredible woman”. Confession: It’s not kow-towing at all. It’s praising a great country and a great people who have been shafted by people like Sadiq Khan the mayor of London who has been unable to lower the crime rate in London.
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