But, if you thought Blair was Bush’s poodle, watch how Johnson laps it up with Trump.
Boris Johnson will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a convincing victory over Jeremy Hunt in the Conservative party leadership race. …
Saying ‘some wag’ had pointed out that [deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn] spelled ‘dud’, he joked that the final e – ‘E for energise’ – had been left out. ‘I say to all the doubters: dude, we are going to energise the country!’
(The Guardian, July 23, 2019)
Unsurprisingly, Trump is claiming that Johnson won only because people see him as “Britain’s Trump.” This indicates just how much he intends to treat Johnson like his poodle.
Perhaps you saw Trump teaching him the trick of picking a swamp-like cabinet. But nothing is more ominous in this respect than Trump suggesting that Brexit mascot Nigel Farage would “work well with Boris.”
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