Trump: ‘They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!’

Donald Trump returned to Twitter after nearly 12 hours of silence to proclaim, “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!”

Brexit is slang for the United Kingdom’s forthcoming withdrawal from the European Union, but the GOP nominee’s tweet lacked an explanation for what he meant. This left his audience to wonder who would call him “Mr. Brexit” and why they would do so.

Trump, who claimed polls showing him performing poorly are incorrect, has touted his prediction that he thought the United Kingdom would leave the European Union despite speculation to the contrary. His tweet may be designed to cast himself as a political Nostradamus that sees himself performing better than all of the public opinion polls and many pundits suggest. Brexit was portrayed as a populist uprising that shocked political elites.

Trump created a controversy earlier this summer by suggesting that a declining pound as a result of Britain’s exit from the EU would benefit his golf course.

“Look if the pound goes down, they’re gonna do more business,” Trump said at the time. “You know, when the pound goes down, more people are going to come to Turnberry, frankly, and the pound has gone down, and let’s see what the impact of that is.”

Trump’s remark was quickly seized on by his critics and made into an attack ad by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Early Thursday, his tweet was distracting attention away from his campaign overhaul on Wednesday and poor poll numbers.