Donald Trump has consistently supported Britain’s departure from the European Union. ‘Countries want their own identity,’ the president has said, ‘and the UK wanted its own identity.’ Indeed, Trump has been such a forceful advocate of the Leave position that he has announced that he should be called ‘MR BREXIT’. Trump has assured Britons that in a post-EU future they will have a loyal ally in the United States. ‘We’re going to do a very big trade deal – bigger than we’ve ever had with the UK,’ the president said this August. ‘At some point, they won’t have the obstacle of – they won’t have the anchor around their ankle, because that’s what they had.’
In the first major test of his loyalty to Britain, though, the president is failing, and his failure has unpleasant implications for supporters of Brexit.
This August, 19-year-old Harry Dunn was driving on a motorbike in the English county of Northamptonshire when he was struck by a car that was supposedly driving on the wrong side of the road.
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