Trump tells the UK to walk away from the EU if deal talks aren't good for them - Polidicks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-britain-trump/trump-tells-uk-to-walk-away-if-eu-does-not-give-what-it-wants-in-brexit-sunday-times-idUSKCN1T23GP?utm_source=reddit.com LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Britain should refuse to pay its 39 billion pound EU divorce bill and “walk away” from Brexit talks if Brussels does not give the UK what it wants. In an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper ahead of his state visit to Britain starting Monday, Trump said the next British leader should send arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage to conduct talks with the EU. Trump said Britain must leave the EU this year. “They’ve got to get it done,” he said. “They have got to get the deal closed.” “If they don’t get what they want, I would walk away. If you don’t get a fair deal, you walk away.” “I like Nigel a lot. He has a lot to offer - he is a very smart person,” Trump said. “They won’t bring him in but think how well they would do if they did. They just haven’t figured that out yet.” On the Brexit divorce bill, Trump said: “If I were them, I wouldn’t pay 50 billion dollars. That is a tremendous number.” Trump also said he would have “to know” veteran Socialist Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn before authorizing U.S. intelligence to share its most sensitive secrets with a hard-left government.

Pretty sure urging someone to commit suicide is a crime in some places.

“They’ve got to get it done,” he said. “They have got to get the deal closed.” “If they don’t get what they want, I would walk away. If you don’t get a fair deal, you walk away.” This is 100% Trump real estate """dealmaker""" talking, supremely ignorant that international economic diplomacy cannot be managed the way building a high-rise is. See, when you want to build a high-rise, one negotiation option available to you is to walk in, throw a demand on the table, and if the other side won't take it walk right back out and go shop your pitch elsewhere. No negotiation, just an ultimatum backed by the threat of walking. It's not a great option, and this is Trump's favourite negotiation strategy -- mainly because he doesn't have to think and he can't be tricked into a bad deal if he forces everyone to take his deal -- but you can always find another property elsewhere to buy if the first pitch doesn't land. This does not work with international trade. Or pretty much anything a President is expected to deal with.

Hey I know this is Trump's whole wacky shtick but the leader of our "closest ally" should not be giving us unsolicited political advice and telling us what to do

He's an expert on integrated economies, look how well he's worked with the US's neighbors and integrated economies. but hey, britain can do it alone, they'll just fire up the bloomeries, open up the mines, and crank out enough ships to rule the waves again

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A smurfy mentioned, this is international politics, not a conversation amongst friends over trivial things, so it is in very bad taste for trump to be telling other nations what to do about anything, especially unsolicited (perhaps moreso as trump is not in a good position to be giving advice on anything to anyone regardless of office). However, what I find insane about this whole ordeal is that his "advice" only works when you have leverage in a deal. In this case, the UK has no leverage, and if they walk away and refuse to pay the amount stipulated by the EU, the UK can likely expect to have stiff tariffs applied to any goods coming from them, or simply not be able to engage economically with the EU.

Shut the fuck up Trump, nobody's looking to you for helpful advice.

In the future, this'll be the solitary factor we'll be able to attribute to the fact that Brexit was such a colossal disaster: the utterly misguided concept that the UK was the one with more value in this situation.

i thought britain had enough of foreign powers having a say in our politics

I hope you Brits have your milkshakes at the ready during his visit

"He'll be a great president because he'll run it like a business!"

This is why all his buisnesses went bankrupt

I was listening to NPR the other day and they had a few short interviews with a bunch of brexiteers and they genuinely all bel8eved that europe should bend over backwards because britain saved them in ww2, which is ignorant of say the French, Belgian, and Polish governments in-exile or the fact that the brits would have had to capitulate if the Belgians and French hadn't fought nearly to the last man at Dunkirk....or that between 1945 and now was 70 years of history where europe and britain worked together to strengthen each other....

Mmm, yeah, leaving a geopolitical bloc with our neighbours to become a satellite for the United States, boy golly I'm excited.

I doubt they'll let anyone not vetted within 200 metres of him. Plus who wants to get shot by the secret service over a milkshake?

You mean tackled/tasered? Nobody will get shot over here.

Bruh, you're forgetting that we beat Germany in WW2. Your argument is invalid

hey, can we be a vassal state to you guys again like how it was before the 1770s? i promise things will be different this time.

Expecting trump supports to actually know what they're talking about when they mean "But hes a business man!!!" is like expecting a fucking baby to fly a 747

Well I mean I think some of them were trying to do just that! Honestly I hope this Brexit thing gets nipped in the bud. I'm kindof tired of hearing it.

Sure, just send your first instalment of colonial taxes to my paypal and we'll get you set up