Last night Nigel Farage delivered the shortest hour-long interview in TV history. GB News had cleared 60 minutes of the schedules for Donald Trump’s bombshell appearance, but viewers soon realised that Farage had spent relatively little facetime with the former president.
Did he get half an hour to record their interview? It may have been less. Farage bulked out the material with snatches of personal analysis and Zoom calls with American pundits. And he kept advertising the content with excitable slogans delivered in his shrill Auntie Mildred tones.
‘No subject was off-limits. And goodness gracious me, he wasn’t holding back.’
The location was the Mar-a-Lago golf course, and Trump appeared on a fake antique chair in a small octagonal space. It looked like Mozart’s music-room. Cream walls, gilt reliefs, miniature columns with gold finials. The ornamental pastiche was rather tasteful if you like your Habsburg emperors.
Farage asked him about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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