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Trump’s low approval rating in the UK is a good thing

By Eddie Scarry
Published June 4, 2019 8:15pm ET
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Trump’s low approval rating in the UK is a good thing
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump walk through the Quadrangle of the Foreign Office for a joint press conference in central London, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. | (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

A defining characteristic of the Trump era is liberals, along with some Republicans, and their obsession with the approval of people who don’t matter.

CNN’s Don Lemon and his guests perfectly demonstrated this tendency Monday night, gleefully observing that President Trump is less popular in the United Kingdom than is former President Barack Obama.

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