Britain’s Ambassador to Washington has described Donald Trump as ‘inept’, ‘insecure’ and ‘incompetent’ in a series of explosive memos to Downing Street.
Sir Kim Darroch, one of Britain’s top diplomats, used secret cables and briefing notes to impugn Trump’s character, warning London that the White House was ‘uniquely dysfunctional’ and that the President’s career could end in ‘disgrace’.
His bombshell comments risk angering the notoriously thin-skinned President and undermining the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with America.
In the memos, seen by The Mail on Sunday following an unprecedented leak, Sir Kim:
– Describes bitter conflicts within Trump’s White House – verified by his own sources – as ‘knife fights’;
– Warns that Trump could have been indebted to ‘dodgy Russians’;
– Claims the President’s economic policies could wreck the world trade system;
– Says the scandal-hit Presidency could ‘crash and burn’ and that ‘we could be at the beginning of a downward spiral… that leads to disgrace and downfall’;
– Voices fears that Trump could still attack Iran.
In one of the most sensitive documents, Sir Kim writes: ‘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.’
He also says that he doesn’t think Trump’s White House will ‘ever look competent’.
In reference to Trump’s ability to shrug off controversies in a life which has been ‘mired in scandal’, he says that the President may nonetheless ’emerge from the flames, battered but intact, like [Arnold] Schwarzenegger in the final scenes of The Terminator’.
He warns senior politicians in London: ‘Do not write him off.’
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In an astonishing diplomatic leak, we learn that the UK Ambassador in DC has had to repeatedly explain to HMG, in great detail, that Donald Trump is a hopeless f*cking moron.https://t.co/8uhEkiKPKp
— John Schindler (@20committee) July 6, 2019
“In the confidential memo – marked 'Official Sensitive' – the UK's most important diplomat accused Trump of 'radiating insecurity', filling his speeches with 'false claims and invented statistics' and achieving 'almost nothing' in terms of domestic policy.” https://t.co/hokK4dPUUG
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 7, 2019
Sir Kim is on the money and I expect his views are shared by most in Europe. I have cousins and friends in a few European countries, including Scotland. They say most people over there wonder whatever possessed Americans to elect Trump as president.
Unfortunately, Sir Kim’s remarks weren’t so secret after all. I expect the poor guy to get the axe over this incident.
And I expect our little boy president to issue one of his childish tweets on the subject any day now.
This is replicated by the ambassadors of every other nation that sends anyone here capable of using email. https://t.co/cCv9OWMi6T
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 7, 2019
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