How do Brits feel about the fact that President Donald Trump is angry at Kier Starmer for how he is mistreating the British people because Trump feels very protective of the Brits?

This is not a comment on Trump specifically due to the long time frame covering several Presidents. But on how much more wealthy the average US citizen is than the average UK citizen. In 2008 the GDP per capita for the US and the UK was about the same. However since then the US economy has grown significantly whereas the UK has remained stagnant. Yes there are greater inequality issues but even if we take the poorest State in the US which is Mississippi then its GDP per capita is still higher than the UK. There are a number of reasons for this such as Brexit, low productivity, high inflation and a failure to bounce back from COVID.

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/186814/economics/why-is-the-us-economy-doing-so-much-better-than-the-uk-economy/

Just like austerity. The damage that caused will never be repaired.

@Dolphinnoises I certainly don’t disagree with you. All valid points.
I guess I just think that at least the fact that the US gov is pointing in the direction of the UK (and indeed Europe) and highlighting the huge free speech problem over here, might make some of us wake up a bit. And that’s a good thing.
Like him or loathe him, when the POTUS speaks, the world listens. Even when it’s hard to get through some of his speeches 😂
And much as I’m ambivalent towards Trump he isn’t always fairly represented. Biden had a very murky moral code too, he just paid off his rape accuser so it wouldn’t get to court, and none of that really made the news in the UK.

Heck, by today’s standards Washington and Jefferson would probably be characterised as toxic old white men with gun fetishes.
So, is Trump a git? Yeah, a pathological git, off the scale. Should he sort out his own back yard? Definitely. But he isn’t wrong about the situation in the UK.

We feel that Trump feels nothing for anyone except himself.

Can't believe so many are replying to a troll post, especially just to spew hate.

And your point about "Americas standing" proves my point. His leadership has established the US a country that others take notice of.

That's genuinely funny.

Yep, the US was just some little, ignorable country that no one really took any notice of until Donny Big Boy came along.

Thank you, @Chiseltip . You're a prolific poster and I've sometimes put the effort in to consider your posts seriously even if I disagreed with you. But you've just fixed that.

51st state here we come. I look forward to retiring to Florida and gun crime. Lots and lots of gun crime. Obviously kidding but I sudpect there will be changes in the worlds geography over the next few decades.

You know where the door is

And you are? I’ve had Thatcher Johnson Truss & Cameron in my lifetime & right now Starmer is nowhere near the absolute pits they were. All in their own sweet way.

Trump is a narcissist. Narcissists don't care about anyone but themselves. If Trump is pretending to care about the UK then it is only for his own ends.

Give your head a little wobble in

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Says who? And it’s KEIR

Fully educated here. I don't get my news from X or Facebook either
Trump is a controlled puppet for project 2025 and they are now putting their mucky feelers our way, aided by Nigel.

No country does well under right wing fundamental Christian control.

We have the NHS, women have access to healthcare, we have workers rights, we have rights for disabled people. Are any of those perfect? Far from it, but if you think any of that will be better under Trumps influence you are either uneducated or deliberately ignorant

Fuck Donald Trump

Is he? There you go.

This x 10000000000000000

Lol @Butchyrestingface great minds think alike….

Even the Russian bots are getting lazy and can’t be arsed to write a proper post. Tsk!

When did this happen?

Btw, this must be the first time I’ve seen a vanishing poster not being arsed to add ANYTHING to the body of their OP beyond an ‘x’.

Feels like a new low for MN. Even bots are way more hard-working than this.

Yes. Best interests and all that that? Bigly's poodles doing a great job. Barking.

Can we all just agree that all of our leaders are shit and corrupt instead?

Are any of them really in charge or actually doing the job we elected them to do at all? Nothing is really improving and it feels the world is going backwards. We are arguing whether we prefer to get kicked up the arse or slapped in the face.

🤣

I just wish MN would do more to stop these "plop and run" threads.

The OP posts something controversial usually with faux ignorance, gets everyone riled up and never posts again.

The police showing too much interest in our social media feeds needs fixing - definitely. But the US should get its own house in order. Not that it intends to - it’s spinning misrepresentations about the U.K. so its citizens don’t look as closely at their own stats.

So - knife crime in London is a problem but all other stats on crime in the US are far higher.

The NHS is expensive but Medicare / Medicaid is more expensive per capita and most taxpayers don’t even have access to it

The free speech thing is pure “look over there! Not over here! Vance is a lawyer so quite intelligent enough to understand our court reporting laws, which put temporary restrictions on what can be said when a trial is underway. He just chooses to spin it - while in the US you can get your personal phone checked on entry to the country in case you’ve been unpleasant about Trump on social media - something unimaginable here.

Trump feels very protective of the Brits

I think your autocorrect has misspelled "manipulative".

Anyway, the US Federal government he's allegedly leading is not even functioning (literally shut down) at the moment; shouldn't Trump be working on that rather than backseat driving other world leaders' jobs?