The UK’s left-wing foreign secretary is being humiliated for kissing up to President-elect Donald Trump after his election win — having previously calling him a “neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” who was “no friend of Britain.”
Before he was made the UK’s chief diplomat, David Lammy had for years lambasted Trump with histrionic fearmongering.
“Yes, if Trump comes to the UK, I will be out protesting on the streets,” Lammy claimed in one such alarmist diatribe in 2017. “He is a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer,” he said, without giving reasons for such wildly disturbing allegations.
A year later, he called the then-president a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” who was “a profound threat to the international order.”
Then, prior to Trump’s state visit to the UK in 2019, Lammy doubled down, calling the then-president “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” — and “no friend of Britain.”
All that has changed, it seems, now that his one-time most feared adversary is heading back to the White House — and Lammy is responsible for maintaining relations with his nation’s most important ally.
“Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on your victory,” Lammy wrote early Wednesday after Trump’s sweeping election win.
“The UK has no greater friend than the US, with the special relationship being cherished on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 80 years. We look forward to working with you and @JDVance in the years ahead,” wrote Lammy, seemingly no longer planning to protest in the street.
The gushing about-face left Lammy the butt of online jokes and memes, with some calling “to get this clown removed from his position.”
“David Lammy should just resign now,” insisted political analyst Nile Gardiner, a former aide to ex-Tory leader Margaret Thatcher.
Adding to his humiliation, a squeamish Lammy was forced to listen to his old words being read back to him during an interview with the BBC on Friday — and tried to brush them off.
“I am foreign secretary. There are things I know now that I didn’t know back then,” he said of his “pretty ripe” words.
Dismissing the insults as “old news,” Lammy described the incoming prez as “someone that we can build a relationship with in our national interest.”
He praised Trump for his “very well run” campaign — and maintained that the incoming prez is actually a friend of Britain.
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“I know this is a talking point today, but in a world where there’s war in Europe, where there’s a tremendous loss of life in the Middle East, where the US and the UK genuinely have a special relationship, where we got someone who’s about to become again, the US president, who has experience of doing the job last time round, we will forge common interests,” Lammy said.
“We will agree and align on much and where we disagree, we’ll have those conversations as well, most often in private.”
