Posted on 11/15/2016 5:46:43 PM PST by grundle
NIGEL FARAGE has revealed that Donald Trump will re-install a bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office by Barack Obama - in a clear sign of the friendship the new President wishes to foster with Britain.
The interim Ukip leader said Mr Trump has already pushed Britain to the front of the queue for a favourable trade relationship and added that he is the man to forge stronger ties with the US as he flew to visit the business tycoon in his first days as President Elect.
Mr Farage said: "We talked about the prospect of the United Kingdom being at the front of the queue, all of which was met positively."
His comments come after outgoing President Barack Obama told the UK earlier this year that its decision to leave the EU meant it would be at the "back of the queue" for trade talks.
The Ukip leader described Donald Trump as an "anglophile" and said his re-installation of the Churchill statue was a clear sign of his appreciation for the historically warm relationship between the allies.
He said: "At the end of our time with Trump we asked him if the bust of Sir Winston Churchill that Obama had removed from the Oval Office could be put back in its rightful place. He enthusiastically thought that was a good idea. Need I say more?"
Nigel Farage played a key role in Mr Trump's US election campaign, speaking at rallies and drumming up support, with Mr Trump referring to his shock election victory as "Brexit plus plus".
The Leave campaigner blasted the British government for refusing to trust him after Downing Street issued a statement calling him an "irrelevance".
He said: "If the president-elect trusts me then I would hope that some in the British Government could do the same thing. I would be very happy to provide introductions and to start the necessary process of mending fences. And I would not want anything in return. I hope in our national interest that some sense prevails on this."
He went on to criticise the government for being "unrelentingly negative about The Donald", which he said was the only difficuly point during their discussion, adding: "there are fences to be mended".
During Mr Farage's brief visit to the US 20,000 people protested outside Trump Tower in New York, as anti-Trump rallies and violence broke out across the country.
Echoing Mr Trump's comments online about "unfair" protests, Mr Farage said: "Some people only like democracy when the result suits them."
He asserted that the business tycoon will be a "great president" not an "ogre" and that he was both "thoughtful and reflective" during their meeting.
The Ukip leader travelled to the US with key party donor Arron Banks and attacked fellow party members for disowning him over giving his backing to the controversial tycoon who until last Wednesday was seen as the outsider in the race.
Mr Farage's comments came as the Prime Minister faced a growing backlash over her refusal to use the relationship between the Ukip leader and the new President to Britain's advantage.
Members of the cabinet have reportedly told the Theresa May she has made a mistake by referring to Mr Farage as an "irrelevance".
I am with you on that, DoughtyOne. For certain.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
Thanks.
“:^)
I was hoping to hear this good news.
Been away for 8 years.
Thank you President Elect Donald J. Trump!
It would be better if you were hired by the Trump administration and well paid.
Also, if you want to become an American citizen, I bet that can be arranged.
You see, we're not anti-immigrant at all. We're just picky.
No. Obama was supposed to have sent it almost immediately
to the Brits. However, I guess we’re lucky he didn’t we
hope bust it up with a sledgehammer or a golf club.
Excellent news.
Winston Churchill was one of only eight people who had honorary American citizenship conferred upon them. Others include Raoul Wallenberg, Mother Teresa, Marquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, William Penn and his wife Hannah, and Bernardo de Gálvez.
Awesome news - I have been hoping to hear this return of Churchill. Excellent.
Pat’s not a consevative.
So where will MLK go?....:^)
Let Barry take the MLK bust with him.
Pray America woke
>>Pat’s not a conservative.<<
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Perhaps not. I think he, like Trump, has a lot of conservative ideas; but their philosophy is something different.
The main difference is the repudiation of globalism.
Neocons, who call themselves conservatives, have an interventionist foreign policy that DOES NOT PLACE AMERICA FIRST.
Free traders, who often call themselves conservatives, have an economic system that IS NOT FAIR AT ALL. IT TILTS THE PLAYING FIELD TOWARDS MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS. This violates true capitalism. If this is a “Conservative” position, as some Republicans still assert, then I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
I think that’s where Buchanan and Trump come down as well.
I must add that I have been a businessman for almost 40 years, and have seen the business world and even Wall Street from a great many different angles. I am really a total snob about this, when lectured by academics like Mark Levin or others who in my opinion don’t really know what they are talking about in the realm of money and commerce.
Romney is a different story. He knew, and was part of the globalist crowd which has no regard for Small Business in America-—the HEART OF CAPITALISM.
(By small business I mean everything from farms to fairly good size corporations who operate more or less totally inside the U.S. except for export, and who do not have a crony relationship with Wall Street banks.)
Nah, his racist hatred overwhelmed all his thoughts, other than his narcissist self esteem.
Exactly. It goes to the chestnut someone thought up in the early days of the Obama Regime:
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Obama returned it as a way of showing his disrespect for the colonial history of his namesake’s origin. He did similar things in commemorative gift exchanges and visits.
He was very obvious in his childish ill manners.
I agree with your take on it.
Childish is the right word too > IMO.
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