Naked romps, cockroaches, and reality TV: How Katie Hopkins became Trump’s favorite Englishwoman

It was the second time in a month that the American president used the words of the self-styled “rent a gob” to support one of his feuds, this time with Baltimore Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings.

She posted a law enforcement video apparently showing a street assault in Baltimore and calling the city a “proper s***hole.”

A week earlier, he had retweeted her defense of his attacks on the “squad.”

“How I wish we had such leadership in the UK,” she wrote on Twitter.

It is easy to understand the attraction for Trump. Hopkins was catapulted to fame as a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice in 2007, after all.

But she was soon after fired from her day job as brand consultant for the British Meteorological Service when photographs of a naked romp with Mark Cross, a married colleague, were published in a newspaper. She admitted: “I did have sex in a field, there’s no denying that, there’s no getting away from it, but I would say, that people aren’t adventurous enough!”

Her 2010 marriage to Cross was filmed as part of a reality game show. Hopkins remained unrepentant, saying: “Mark was a married man and yes I stole him. I stole my first husband as well — get over it.” In 2016, she came out as bisexual, saying: “I’d swing both ways – given the freedom to do that. I’ve never been offered.”

After losing her Meteorological Service job, she decided to weaponize her notoriety, dubbing herself the country’s “most controversial columnist” when she began writing for the U.K.’s most-selling newspaper, The Sun, in 2013.

Two years later was condemned for a piece in which she said she did not care about migrants risking their life crossing the Mediterranean bound for Europe.

“Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches,” she wrote, in language condemned for echoing that used by genocidal killers in Rwanda two decades earlier.

She was fired by the broadcaster LBC in 2017 after inflammatory comments she made after 22 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a concert in Manchester.

“22 dead – number rising. Schofield. Don’t you even dare,” directed to TV presenter Philip Schofield. “Do not be a part of the problem. We need a final solution #Machester (sic).”

The tweet, which was reported to the police, was swiftly deleted.

Having lost her mainstream posts, she now works for Rebel Media, a Canadian far-right website, and keeps up her incendiary Twitter commentary.

Last year, she used the term “Jigga-Boo” to address a Twitter user and sought to blame a Jewish leader for provoking the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, where 11 worshipers died.

But her controversial tweets almost brought bankruptcy when she lost a libel case two years ago after falsely implying that a left-wing activist supported the defacement of war memorials.

On Monday, it was business as usual. She launched a Twitter attack on Meghan Markle, who has guest-edited an issue of Vogue, and delivered deep praise for Trump and Boris Johnson.

“What a time to be alive! Thank God for 45,” she wrote.

With the possible exceptions of Boris Johnson, who has his own talents as a provocateur and a similarly complicated personal life, Hopkins appears to be Trump’s favorite Briton, a status cemented by her apparent determination to be his most unswerving supporter on the other side of the Atlantic.