President Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom this June has raised some criticism in Britain. But if you want a perfect nine second explanation of why Trump deserves that visit, click the center of the video below.
Speaking on the BBC’s primary weekly debate show, “Question Time,” that gentleman is absolutely correct. Unlike many blustering politicians, he recognizes that America is Britain’s closest, most powerful ally. And that if Britain ever faced grave foreign threat or natural disaster, it would be American carrier strike groups, submarines, fighter jets, bombers, and armored brigades that came to the rescue. And helped Britain win against the enemy.
It’s not a hypothetical concern. In stronger terms than former President Barack Obama ever did, President Trump has pledged that he would stand with Britain is any disaster. Meeting Theresa May in Davos, Switzerland, last year, Trump told her “there is nothing that would happen to [Britain] that we won’t be there to fight for you, you know that.”
That’s as it should be. The expectation of the U.S.-U.K. special relationship is that if the worse day comes, we will fight together and if necessary die together. Or as the Latin battle cry goes, “Dum spiramus, tuebimur” — as long as we breathe, we shall defend.
Unless, that is, Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister and hands the U.K. over to Putin.
