President Trump on Thursday called on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage to team up before the country’s early election Dec. 12 — saying the pair would make an “unstoppable force.”
“I wish you two guys could get together, I think it would be a great thing,” Trump said during an interview on Farage’s radio show on LBC.
Johnson’s incumbent Conservative Party and Farage’s Brexit Party will be competing for the votes of Brexit-backers in next month’s election.
Trump praised Johnson as a “fantastic man” and urged him to make an electoral pact with his rival.
“I’d like to see you and Boris get together, because you would really have some numbers,” Trump told Farage.
“I know that you and him will end up doing something that could be terrific if you and he get together as, you know, an unstoppable force.”
Johnson, “respects [Farage] a lot,” Trump added.
Still, Trump said “certain aspects” of Johnson’s Brexit deal, would make it impossible for the UK to strike any kind of trade deal with the US.
When it came to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the president didn’t mince words.
“He’d be so bad, he’d take you in such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places,” Trump told Farage
Corbyn snapped back in a tweet that: “Donald Trump is trying to interfere in Britain’s election to get his friend Boris Johnson elected.”