Boris Johnson avoids meeting with Trump during NATO gathering

[TomCADem]

Even Trump's ideological, anti-immigrant blood brother does not want to be seen in the same room as Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boris-johnson-looks-avoid-damaging-trump-meeting-during-nato-gathering-n1094656

LONDON — Allies of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump are downplaying the significance of the lack of a formal one-on-one meeting between the two leaders during this week’s NATO gathering.

But it was Johnson’s decision not to schedule one a week before an election that will decide whether he remains in power, according to people familiar with the matter.

Before Trump traveled to London on Monday, members of Johnson's team notified the White House that there would be no formal meeting given the Dec. 12 U.K. election, these people said. They said the message from the British was that now is not the time for a meeting with Trump, who is deeply unpopular in the U.K.

Johnson’s political calculation marks a hiccup in a relationship the White House had billed as so close it would pay policy dividends on multiple fronts and more tightly align the two countries. It also underscores the delicate balance world leaders try to strike when it comes to Trump.

[Ohioboy]

1. Wow,

even Boris Johnson didn't want to see him.

[Polybius]

6. His election is next week

He knows it will hurt him being next to him, he's a smarter version of Trump.

[Aristus]

2. I was thinking that neither of them wants to be upstaged by the other.

N/t

[dawg day]

3. Boris was yucking it up with Trudeau laughing at Trump.

Trump is no longer the BMOC, obviously.

[lunatica]

4. There's a real desperation stink to this.

[Bev54]

5. They did meet

At Boris's residence late Tuesday night, it has been reported by British Press.

[somaticexperiencing]

7. I hope Trump is seen behaving something like Lyndon Johnson in this clip from The Right Stuff!

The Right Stuff is a great movie. And there are some great strong performances of what many might consider true American values.

This scene features Ed Harris as Astronaut John Glenn, sticking up for his wife Annie Glenn when she doesn't want Vice-President Johnson to visit (for a p.r. possibility).

If you watch, stick to the end to see Johnson's reaction, and imagine Trump as the same.

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