Prime Minister Theresa May, or, as the White House called her last year, Teresa May, "wants Mr. Trump’s help for a trade deal with the United States after Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, known as Brexit," or, as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calls it, "an exercise in economic masochism that Britons will long regret," or, as the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstad, calls it, a "shambles."
This could work out. A masochistic ally wants something from our sado-narcissistic president, both of whom are of a like, shambolic mind. But it won't work out. Because …
Chancellor Angela Merkel once had to explain to Trump a dozen times (literally, according to contemporary reports) that Germany could not negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with the United States, seeing how Germany is a member of the European Union.
Trump now wants a bilateral trade agreement with May, and vice versa. But, as a British commentator has noted: "May [recently] made major concessions in Britain’s much-delayed 'divorce negotiations' with the E.U. Brexit Britain was looking forward to talking to Trump about a whizzo Anglo-American trade deal, but May’s cave-ins to the E.U. … could wreck that."
God save the queen and the poor bloke who must explain that one to Trump, who couldn't comprehend Germany's straightforward trade situation. How will he ever grasp that Britain — half out but possibly still half in the E.U. — would be barred from a bilateral agreement with the U.S.?
Nonetheless, Trump should feel quite at home while spending a wee bit of time in the U.K. For as the aforementioned British commentator also noted: "In recent days, British politics has gone crazy, and the prime minister … is in grievous peril of blowing her government to pieces."
Even if Trump doesn't know the feeling, we do.