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Donald Trump’s second son Eric made a visit to Scotland this weekend, for a round of golf and a rather interesting media interview. While Eric Trump insisted that the Trumps have “tremendous respect” for the country, the ex-president’s son was, however, a little less complimentary about British foreign secretary David Lammy…
The foreign secretary has a history of making rather, um, heated remarks about the former president — even calling Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” as a backbench member of parliament in 2018. That wasn’t the only criticism Lammy leveled at the presidential candidate. In 2017, Lammy slammed Theresa May’s invitation to Trump and his wife to the UK, writing: “A state visit to suck up to President Trump? Not in my name, no way.” He later called the former president a “troll” over Trump’s social media posts about Sadiq Khan following the London Bridge terror attack, and branded him a “liar and a coward” after Trump cancelled a visit to a US war cemetery. Talk about pulling no punches…
Eric Trump blasted the foreign secretary for the rather insulting descriptions of his father, telling the Telegraph:
I’ve seen politicians over the years in the UK take shots at our family, and I’ve never quite understood it. We have tremendous respect for the country, and that transcends some politician who will likely be out of there in nine months anyway. We have politicians who say dumb crap all the time to try and make headlines.
The remarks, which Eric Trump made during a visit to the International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire, spell trouble for Labour. Former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson told The Spectator last week that people “will remember all those comments,” adding: “That was not a wise comment. But those things happen in politics… there’s always a way to recover if you want.” How curious. Certainly Trump’s son insisted at the weekend that the Special Relationship would not be affected by “a nonsense voice that wants to be clickbait.” Ouch. That’s Lammy told…
This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.
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