{"id":83069,"date":"2024-08-14T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=83069"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:58:05","slug":"politico-top-british-diplomats-will-pray-that-trump-will-forgive-and-forget-insults-thrown-at-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/83069\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Top British diplomats will pray that Trump will \u2018forgive and forget\u2019 insults thrown at him"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New U.K. foreign ministers were heavily critical of the &lsquo;racist&rsquo; former U.S. president before landing plum government jobs, while Trump is a man who &ldquo;knows how to hold a grudge&rdquo;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/britain-foreign-office-diplomacy-donald-trump-david-lammy-us-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted, Britain&rsquo;s newly-installed team of top diplomats will be praying he&rsquo;s prepared &ldquo;to forgive and forget&rdquo; if he wins back the U.S. presidency on Nov. 5. A study of past comments by the U.K.&rsquo;s new Foreign Office team shows a host of top ministers have made deeply critical comments about Trump over recent years, calling him &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Hitler&rdquo;, &ldquo;moral disaster&rdquo;, &ldquo;neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath&rdquo;, etc. Allies of Trump may not forget the digs so easily should he win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump&rsquo;s last U.S. Ambassador to the U.K., Woody Johnson, recently said that &ldquo;people will remember all those comments&rdquo; which were not &ldquo;wise.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;Donald Trump is an unusual politician and his, at times, emotive rhetoric and political choices attracted responses from other political leaders that were quite unusual in diplomatic terms,&rdquo; Sophia Gaston, the head of foreign policy and U.K. resilience at the Policy Exchange think tank, said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to her, words really do matter when it comes to politics, because those personal relationships can be really important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No wonder U.K. Labour officials have spent recent months scrambling to build bridges with the Trump camp. Plans to appoint a new U.K. Ambassador to Washington have been put on ice pending the outcome of the Nov. 5 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A U.K. Foreign Office spokesperson said: &ldquo;The U.K.-U.S. relationship is special, built on a foundation of our deep security, military and intelligence links, as well as our unique cultural and people-to-people ties. We look forward to working closely with whoever is elected the next U.S. president.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New U.K. foreign ministers were heavily critical of the &lsquo;racist&rsquo; former U.S. president before landing plum government jobs, while Trump is a man who &ldquo;knows how to hold a grudge&rdquo;, Politico writes. As noted, Britain&rsquo;s newly-installed team of top diplomats will be praying he&rsquo;s prepared &ldquo;to forgive and forget&rdquo; if he wins back the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":83064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}