US president Donald Trump is one of Brexit’s biggest cheerleaders, describing Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union as a “great” and “wonderful”. But his latest senior White House appointment seems to see things very differently.
Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s new director of communications, tweeted repeatedly last year about his negative views on Brexit, and went as far as describing UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson, a leading Brexiteer, of risking being “on the wrong side of history”.
After his appointment was announced last week, Scaramucci announced that he was deleting all his old tweets. But here are the ones laying out his strongly anti-Brexit views.
In an early string of tweets last year about the UK’s impending referendum, Scaramucci said Brexit was a “bad idea”.
Interestingly, he was basing his understanding of British public opinion the most highly rated comments on the Daily Mail website.
Trump’s new director of communications then went on to predict that Brexit will not actually happen, and that the UK and the EU27 would renegotiate a new relationship.
