With Trump likely to be re-elected, time to take note of the man chosen to be his running mate, JD Vance.
Quite a rise in the ranks for a man who, 8 years ago, was referring to Trump as America’s Hitler and who is now saying that with Labour in power the UK is now the first Islamist country to have nuclear weapons.
Bad enough having a divisive, old fruit cake in power, but it looks like he will be backed up by a younger fruit cake.
Buckle up.
DONALD Trump’s pick for vice-president is facing a backlash after suggesting the UK is an “Islamist country” now Labour are in power.
JD Vance, the Ohio senator chosen as Mr Trump’s running mate on Monday, said we would be the “the first truly Islamist country to get a nuclear weapon” at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC last week.
Vance, 39, said he had to “beat up on the UK”, as he told the conference crowd about a recent discussion with a friend. He added: “I was talking about what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts.
“And then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”
Deputy PM Angela Rayner said: “I don’t recognise that. We won votes across different communities across the whole of the country.”
Shadow Tory minister Andrew Bowie condemned the remarks, saying: “I think it’s quite offensive to my colleagues in the Labour party.”