Posted on 01/15/2017 6:02:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In his first interview with foreign media, President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to offer a "fair" trade deal to Britain "within weeks" of his inauguration.
In a joint interview published Sunday in The Times of London and Germany's Bild, Trump said that he planned to make Britain's departure from the European Union "a great thing" and that he would meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May shortly after he is sworn in Friday.
"We're gonna work very hard to get it done quickly and done properly," he told the papers, adding: "I love the UK."
The comments come as Britain wrestles with an uncertain future under Brexit, the referendum under which it voted to leave the European Union.
Since the vote June 23, the country has seen its currency plummet and its AAA credit rating wiped out. It also faces the prospect of tariffs and trade restrictions from the EU, The Times reported a possibility that made Trump's comments that much more significant, because a possible trade deal with the United States could be a powerful negotiating tool.
In the interview, Trump attributed Brexit to an influx of refugees, saying: "If they [EU countries] hadn't been forced to take in all of the refugees, so many, with all the problems that it .. . entails, I think that you wouldn't have a Brexit," he said. "I think people want ... their own identity, so if you ask me ... I believe others will leave."
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Until England starts treating Mr Trump with more respect they don’t deserve anything.
The new PM has been very anti-Trump in the past,and the one englishman who seems able to forge positive links between our nations (Nigel Farage) is shunned
America and Great Britain are breaking away from the Liberal elites who have been dragging them down. Both will be great again.
the brexiters and trump are natural allies.
She was anti-Trump and then Frau Merkel threatened them with tariffs and said it was all or nothing for the U.K. So Merkel wants to punish them for Brexit, now, fortunately for the brits, Trump will be president and we again will go to the aid of our cousins.
Before I made any trade deal with the Brits, the Brits MUST allow Trumps
FBI to interview that ex MI6 spy who is now in hiding to spill the beans
on the Fake Report he ginned up.
This isn’t about May, its about Britain as a nation-state. Obama treated the UK like s**t when he was prez, why should that have affected the bond between the US and the UK at a deeper level?
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