Donald Trump is not a warmonger and most of the world is glad he’s back, David Lammy says
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Foreign secretary says new president is ‘gracious and generous’ ahead of inauguration. Donald Trump is not a warmonger and most people in the world are glad he is back in power, David Lammy said ahead of his inauguration on Monday. Going out of his way to praise the new president, the Foreign Secretary called him “gracious and generous”.
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Mr Lammy, who has been fiercely critical of Mr Trump in the past, said Britain had to come to terms with dealing with him. “You meet the world as it is - not as you would like it to be,” he told the BBC. Global support for Trump was rooted in the view that he would curb “malign authoritarian” leaders by “keeping them guessing,” said Mr Lammy.
He said he had been impressed when he dined with Trump in September last year. “This is not a man who is in any sense a warmonger. In reckoning with the world’s most malign interests he was very clear - he wanted to be strong and powerful but he is not embracing war.
“The Donald Trump I met was a man who had incredible grace, generosity, he was very keen to be a good host, very funny, very friendly, very warm about the UK, our Royal Family, Scotland.”. The British Government’s approach to the Trump administration “had to be progressive realism- you meet the world as it is not you would like it to be”.
