The US-UK Relationship Is About to Become More Explosive
MAGA’s bromance with Britain’s populist conservatives is fueled by a combustible mixture of love and hate.
Be careful what you wish for.
Photographer: Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images North AmericaFor a leader who wants to make America great again, Donald Trump spends a lot of time in the United Kingdom. On September 17-19th, he will travel to Britain for an unprecedented second state visit. It comes eight weeks after Trump checked in on his golf courses in Scotland. Between the president’s two visits, his vice president, JD Vance, has been on holiday here, splitting his time between an 18th-century stately home in the Cotswolds, the foreign secretary’s grace and favor mansion, Chevening, and the Carnell Estate, in Scotland.
Other MAGA luminaries are forever popping up in Britain. Peter Thiel has delivered the Scruton lecture in Oxford’s grand Sheldonian Theatre and debated at both the Oxford and Cambridge Unions. Elon Musk devotes more attention to British politics on X than to the politics of any country other than the US.