US-UK Affair on the Rocks

By Finian Cunningham

June 05, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  Never has a visiting US president caused so much protest and division among the British public. For over 70 years, American and British leaders have flattered each other about a “special relationship” between the two states.

That "love affair" seems to have hit rocky ground under Tump.

For three days during his state visit, Britons made their contempt felt for the American leader. Trump flew into Britain like a tornado of trouble, interfering in the Brexit debacle, slamming the mayor of London as a "loser", promoting Boris Johnson as the new Tory leader, and denying recorded jibes he made at a member (Meghan Markle) of the royal family.

President Trump's brusque personal style and inflamed British passions over Brexit are certainly factors in apparently vexed relations.

Of course, there were the usual platitudes and official banquet toasts to the "special relationship".

Nevertheless, Trump's high-handed poking into Brexit politics and the British public's disdain for an uncouth American suggest that the once cozy US-UK affair is going cold.

But it's not just America's supposed special bond with Britain coming undone. Washington is increasingly estranged from other allies in Europe too.

The Trump administration has taken to routinely pillorying Britain and other Europeans over any number of alleged grievances. Those grievances include Washington complaining about "unfair trade" by the Europeans, and threatening to impose tariffs in "retaliation"; they include demands by Washington that the Europeans stop doing business with Iran under an international nuclear accord, which the Trump administration unilaterally abrogated last year.
   

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