Dear, oh dear. Will David Lammy never get it right? This morning he told the Today programme that Donald Trump is ‘funny, friendly and warm’, that he has ‘incredible grace’ and that he is full of generosity – the last remark apparently based on Trump offering him a second helping of chicken when they met for dinner last September. This is the same Donald Trump, presumably, whom Lammy previously described as a ‘woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’ who was ‘deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic’ and ‘no friend of Britain’. Lammy must really, really have wanted that extra helping of chicken.
It isn’t hard to guess what Trump himself thinks about Lammy’s backflip. He will be thinking that the man is a complete arse, and that he has got Britain’s foreign secretary wrapped around his little finger.
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