London – Leaked diplomatic cables reveal that Britain’s ambassador to the United States regards President Donald Trump’s administration as inept, hobbled by infighting, and unlikely to improve.
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The memos published in the Mail on Sunday contain highly critical comments from Ambassador Kim Darroch about the current state of Trump’s government, providing a rare look at how a senior British diplomat views the government of Britain’s closest ally.
“We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Darroch wrote in one of a series of leaked documents covering the period from 2017 to the present.
Britain’s Foreign Office did not challenge the authenticity of the leaked documents. It called the leak “mischievous behavior” and said the public expects diplomats to provide honest assessments of the politics in the countries where they are posted.
The memos also characterized Trump’s policy on Iran as “incoherent, chaotic.” Trump has frustrated European allies by withdrawing the United States from a complex deal designed to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons and has seemed in recent weeks to be on the verge of armed conflict with Iran.
Darroch said there are doubts about whether the White House “will ever look competent” and that the only way to communicate with the president is by being simple and blunt.
He said that while Trump had been “dazzled” by British pageantry on a state visit hosted by Queen Elizabeth II in June, the successful visit would not lead to a fundamental shift in Trump’s priorities.
“This is still the land of America First,” he wrote.
Darroch’s views may lead to some awkwardness , especially since Trump said shortly after his election in 2016 that Brexiteer Nigel Farage would make an excellent British ambassador to the United States.
Not going to effect the relationship but Darroch probably can’t continue in his role as ambassador.
If you mention that President Trump is inept, does that require a security marking?
This is coming from the British ? Groso chachimum. So how’s Brexit going along ? No infighting ? Is it organized in an orderly fashion ? Sounds pretty bloody to me
I would highly reccommend the UK ambassador look in the mirror first and realize that his little dinky island, also known as, GB or nowadays as SB (small britain) is in deep shiite before he preaches about POTUS, enough said.
I’m surprised that the Ambassador can’t see that we have a stable genius with a yuuge brain running a well oiled machine. Could it be that the Ambassador is upset that the American’s took the airports from the Redcoats in 1781?
Shhhhhh. Zha shtil. Keep it quiet that trump is an idiot. No one will ever know…