Analysis: The American president arrives at a time when Brexit has rendered British politics paralyzed, polarized and seemingly hopeless
an image of Trump’s and Barack Obama’s dueling popularity ratings on the side of the Tower of London—a reminder that just 1 in 5 voters has a positive view of Trump, compared with nearly three-quarters for Obama. Although timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the visit inevitably emphasizes the distance between that era of cooperation and the present, more strained status of the “special relationship.
There is little true purpose to his state visit, save to the extent that an invitation to Buckingham Palace indulges the American president. Tellingly, no one-on-one meeting has been arranged with the lame-duck May, who announced her upcoming resignation after failing to get her Brexit plan through Parliament. Like his hosts, Trump seems more interested in her successor than in poor May herself.
Although Trump will be the focus of the pomp and the protests this week, his presence in the UK is one of the few things capable of uniting Britain’s fractious politics. In a recent opinion poll, the public was asked to decide whether May or Corbyn would be the best possible prime minister. Fully 55 percent of respondents said they could not rank either politician better than the other.
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