Friday 13 July 2018

Could Trump and Boris meet on the Turnberry golf course?

As far as I know Boris Johnson doesn't play golf very well, otherwise he'd probably be on the Trump course up in Turnberry, Scotland over the weekend, chatting and plotting how to overthrow Theresa May and remove the UK wholesale from the European Union. Donald no-mates Trump does actually have one Brit friend and that's Boris. We know that because he told The Sun political editor Tom Newton Dunn, an old mucker of mine when he was defence correspondent on the tabloid, that he liked Boris and thought he would make a great prime minister. Nice one, Donald. How best to be courteous and respectful to your hostess during your UK visit? Tell the world you think Mrs May's biggest political rival would be a terrific (read - better) leader of Great Britain. If I remember right, Boris did have some or one golf lesson during which he hit one of the many cameramen gathered round to witness the historic event three years ago. I wouldn't trust Boris on the Turnberry course. Somehow, though, I bet Trump and his team manage to engineer a meeting with Boris, and Turnberry is probably the only place to do it because the US president is pretty well tied up today at Chequers, then off to see British and US special forces doing their stuff in a training exercise and then tea with the Queen at Windsor. Of course Trump does have one other friend, Nigel Farage. But nobody cares about Farage anymore. He's not the leader of anything, except the Nigel Farage populist love-me cult. Poor Theresa can't tell Trump what to do and what not to do and she certainly can't tell him not to see or speak with Boris. So I fully expect a very public or very clandestine meeting with the former foreign secretary in which there will be much hugging and mwah mwahs. Boris and Trump are two showmen together, kindred spirits, fellow disrupters. Yes I predict a Turnberry session. But if it takes place on the golf course, watch out all spectators. The balls could fly in all the wrong directions.

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