British Officials Reduced To Tears Of Laughter During Trump Calls: Report
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During his first term, Trump provided unwitting hilarity for eavesdroppers across the Atlantic, U.K. officials told Politico EU.
As President Donald Trump settles into his second term and world leaders ponder what the next four years have in store, some British officials who have dealt with him in the past are sharing words of advice: Expect chaos, but also laughs.
Several people who worked for the British prime minister’s office during Trump’s first term spoke with Politico EU this week, recalling how small crowds of civil servants and advisers would gather to listen in on phone calls with Trump.
“The calls were extraordinary … brilliant,” one person told the outlet. “Everyone was in there with tears [of] laughter because they were hilarious.”
Another said that whatever agenda had been planned “would quite quickly fall by the wayside,” while a third said the calls “were never what you wanted them to be about, broadly.”
“If you were calling about trade or Israel or something, it would always go off beam,” the third former Downing Street official told Politico EU.
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During his first term, Trump provided unwitting hilarity for eavesdroppers across the Atlantic, U.K. officials told Politico EU.
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