Donald Trump “may not be as bad as you fear”, says Boris Johnson

The former British Prime Minister was the guest of France Inter on Monday November 18.

“Donald Trump may not be as bad as you fear“, launched Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Monday November 18 on France Inter. “See what he did, not what he said, while he was in the White House“during his first term, explained in French Boris Johnson, who has just published his memoirs, Indomitablepublished by Stock.

“On the economic front, Trump talked a lot about tariffs, but he made a free trade agreement with China“, illustrated the former British Prime Minister. On the international level, “he was tougher on some important issues than the Democrats“, particularly on Syria, he continued.

“Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own citizens. We did nothing, Obama did nothing, but Donald Trump bombed Syria so violently that Bashar al-Assad never used chemical weapons again.”

Donald Trump also assured, during his campaign, that he would end the war in Ukraine.in one day“, raising fears of a peace plan favorable to Russia.”It's rhetoric“reacted Boris Johnson.”I wonder how a guy like Donald Trump can inaugurate his mandate with a capitulation, a humiliation for the United States, for NATO, and for himself, if he gave Putin the possibility of defeating Ukraine ( …) He would never accept being beaten by Putin“, estimated the former British Prime Minister, while admitting: “Maybe I'm naive, but we'll see.”