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After President Trump’s gong show of a performance in Brussels, the bloviator-in-chief arrived in London Thursday smack in the middle of a tumultuous week in the U.K. as the country’s conservative government teeters under the weight of delivering on its Brexit commitment to leave the European Union. What leaving the EU will look like, in practice, has been divisive even amongst those in favor of going it alone. Two members of the cabinet resigned this week and appeared to push Prime Minister Theresa May to the brink. Enter America’s bowling ball of a president, who, in an incredibly on-brand move, sat down with the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun for his first interview. The headline of the Sun’s story is “Trump’s Brexit Blast: I told May how to do Brexit but she wrecked it—the US trade deal is off, says Donald Trump.” So you can see where this is headed.

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