It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself called the Prime Minister ‘Britain Trump’ – to Donald’s mind, the greatest compliment any man could give.
Others use the Trump-Boris analogy to pour scorn. French newspapers have called him ‘mini-Trump’. Or ‘Trump with a thesaurus,’ is how Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who now works for Facebook, put it. To most international media, Brexit and Trump, and therefore Boris and Trump, were part of the same horrid phenomenon. Both men were called populists, nationalists, demagogues, liars – yet they kept winning.
But now Trump is gone and Boris is still Prime Minister, and the Trump-Boris comparisons seem dated and silly. Today, Boris Johnson is in America, the country of his birth. Tonight, he’ll travel from New York to Washington DC to meet President Joe Biden. And it’s becoming clear that he has more in common with America’s 46th president than he ever did with its 45th.
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