Trump is more pro-Britain than the British

Published August 15, 2025 4:25am ET



President Donald Trump leads the most Anglophile administration since that of President John F. Kennedy. Yet he is dealing with a British government that, paradoxically, is anything but Anglophile. That makes for a complicated relationship.

Vice President JD Vance is spending his vacation in the Cotswolds, one of a cohort of MAGA-aligned politicians, business leaders, and commentators to have descended on those thatched, honey-colored villages this summer.

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