Poor Prime Minister May. She has not been able to get her Conservative Party to agree on a Brexit formula, members of the cabinet are deserting her left and right (mostly right), and now she gets sucker-punched by Donald Trump.
May, braving broad hostility to Trump throughout Britain, went out of her way to host a friendly visit for our lunatic president, assuming that Trump might reciprocate with a bit of gratitude. But Trump doesn't know from quid pro quo gratitude, except maybe when it comes to Vladimir Putin.
So while May and Trump were concluding a cordial dinner (salmon, beef, clotted cream ice cream) at Blenheim Palace, the right-wing tabloid The Sun published a startling interview in which Trump virtually endorsed the crackpot demagogue Boris Johnson to replace May as prime minister.
Johnson is basically the British Trump. He resigned as foreign minister earlier this week, ostensibly to protest the terms of May's proposed Brexit deal, but actually to plot a campaign to oust her in favor of himself.
Steve Bannon has been in Britain this week. He's a big fan of Johnson, and is working much of Europe to try to get more Trump-like figures to oust establishment pols.
The Trump-Johnson caper bears the characteristic signature of a Bannon operation. Trump doesn't quite have the deftness or knowledge of British politics to think it up himself.
Serves May right for giving a warm welcome to Trump. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
