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highplainsdem

(49,029 posts) Tue Jul 9, 2019, 01:58 PM Jul 2019

UK's Jeremy Hunt hits Trump: Comments about ambassador are 'disrespectful and wrong'

Source: The Hill

U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is in the running to become the nation's next prime minister, on Tuesday called out President Trump's "disrespectful" comments about British officials.

Trump went after Ambassador Kim Darroch and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May on Twitter on Monday after leaked memos showed Darroch describing the president's administration as "inept."

Speaking "frankly" as "friends," Hunt said Trump's comments were wrong.

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"Your diplomats give their private opinions to @SecPomepoe and so do ours! You said the UK/US alliance was the greatest in history and I agree," Hunt tweeted Tuesday. "But allies need to treat each other with respect as @theresa_may has always done with you. Ambassadors are appointed by the UK government and if I become PM our Ambassador stays."

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452206-uks-jeremy-hunt-hits-trump-comments-about-ambassador-are

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UK's Jeremy Hunt hits Trump: Comments about ambassador are 'disrespectful and wrong' (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2019 OP

IOW, shut your festering gob, you tit! Cirque du So-What Jul 2019 #1

LOL! highplainsdem Jul 2019 #5

I get the feeling that Boris Johnson was behind this link. kimbutgar Jul 2019 #2

I wonder if Darroch will be png'd. Calista241 Jul 2019 #3

The real problem is that everything trump does is "disrespectful and wrong" PSPS Jul 2019 #4

yes, and teflon too norman_tonne Jul 2019 #6

Cirque du So-What

(25,966 posts)

1. IOW, shut your festering gob, you tit!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 02:07 PM

Jul 2019

highplainsdem

(49,029 posts)

5. LOL!

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 10:50 PM

Jul 2019

kimbutgar

(21,181 posts)

2. I get the feeling that Boris Johnson was behind this link.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 02:32 PM

Jul 2019

Who benefits from this coming out?

Calista241

(5,586 posts)

3. I wonder if Darroch will be png'd.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 03:24 PM

Jul 2019

i wouldn’t put it past Trump to do so.

PSPS

(13,614 posts)

4. The real problem is that everything trump does is "disrespectful and wrong"

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 03:57 PM

Jul 2019

norman_tonne

(22 posts)

6. yes, and teflon too

Reply to PSPS (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 11:14 PM

Jul 2019

.. seems like nothing really sticks on him and nobody (world leaders, congress) can do anything about it. We will find out in 2020 whether he's a true teflon president!

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