Throughout the NATO summit and Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, Professor David Dunn of the University of Birmingham has been speaking with international media.
Turkey’s TRT World
What Trump has done is prompt people to flatter him as a way to deal with disruptive behavior. Trump is someone who has redefined what it means to engage with allies. Rather than an opportunity to recommit, to reassure, to ensure the continuity of a relationship, he has tried to make himself into the story.
BBC Radio Coventry
Most of the postwar British foreign policy has relied on two pillars, a European pillar and a Trans-Atlantic pillar. What we’ve done by turning our back on our main trading relationship is to put all our eggs into a North American basket at a time when we have a basket case as a President.
BBC Radio Sheffield
Trump’s interview with The Sun interview was provocatively timed to be a counterpoint to the UK Government’s attempt to manage his vist, to give the heritage and tourism program, big blinging palaces that they thought he would like.