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An Insult To The UK: Trump Sparks Backlash Over Manchester ‘Town’ Comment

The president insulted the U.K.

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Things always get dicey whenever Donald Trump weighs in on the internal politics of another country. And he did just that on Wednesday, setting off a backlash in one of the U.K.’s largest cities.

According to The Mirror, the president on Wednesday discussed the recent resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the possibility that he would be succeeded by Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester. The president was asked about Burnham at the White House by a British-accented reporter.

“I don’t know anything. I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a… town?,” Trump said. “I hear he is extremely liberal. Extremely. So that means he probably won’t open up the North Sea.” That was presumably a reference to energy exploration in the North Sea, a point of contention between the governments.

Some, including those in Britain, took exception to the idea of Manchester, one of the country’s largest cities, being called “a town.”

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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