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Trump Has Treated Britain Shamefully
The president has managed to alienate America’s closest friend over the pettiest of spats.
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Kim Darroch learned the hard way what it’s like to be on the receiving end of Donald Trump’s grim Twitter feed. He should take solace in the fact that he lost his job for telling the truth.
Darroch, who quit today as Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., found himself embroiled in a transatlantic spat after British newspapers reported on leaked cables he had sent back to the prime minister’s office. Among other things, he wrote that Trump is an “insecure” and “incompetent” leader who oversees a “uniquely dysfunctional” White House.