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Speaking to Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on LBC radio, the U.S. president said: “To be honest with you, this deal, under certain aspects of the deal, you can’t do it. You can’t trade. We can’t make a trade deal with the U.K.”
Trump added that under the Brexit deal agreed between Boris Johnson's government and the EU, “under certain ways we're precluded.” He said that was “completely ridiculous.”
“We want to do trade with U.K. and they want to do trade with us,” Trump said, suggesting that trade between the two countries “could be four to five times higher.”
“You’re being held back by the European Union,” the U.S. president said of the U.K. “They’re very tough people to deal with.” [...]
The U.S. president urged Farage and Johnson to strike an electoral pact. “I’d like to see you and Boris get together 'cause you would really have some numbers because you did fantastically in the last election,” he told Farage. “If you and he get together it’s, you know, unstoppable force.”
Of opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Trump said: “I’m sure he’s a lovely man, but he’s of a different persuasion, to put it mildly.” Corbyn would be “so bad for your country” and “take you into such bad places,” he said.[...]