UKs left-wing foreign secretary humiliated for kissing up to Trump after calling him a neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath

The UK’s left-wing foreign secretary is being humiliated for kissing up to President-elect Donald Trump after his election win — having previously calling him a “neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” who was “no friend of Britain.”Before he was made the UK’s chief diplomat, David Lammy had for years lambasted Trump with histrionic fearmongering.“Yes, if Trump comes to the UK, I will be out protesting on the streets,” Lammy claimed in one such alarmist diatribe in 2017.“He is a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer,” he said, without giving reasons for such wildly disturbing allegations.A year later, he called the then-president a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” who was “a profound threat to the international order.”Then, prior to Trump’s state visit to the UK in 2019, Lammy doubled down, calling the then-president “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” — and “no friend of Britain.”All that has changed, it seems, now that his one-time most feared adversary is heading back to the White House — and Lammy is responsible for maintaining relations with his nation’s most important ally.“Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on your victory,” Lammy wrote early Wednesday after Trump’s sweeping election win.“The UK has no greater friend than the US, with the special relationship being cherished on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 80 years.

We look forward to working with you and @JDVance in the years ahead,” wrote Lammy, seemingly no longer planning to protest in the street.The gushing about-face left Lammy the butt of online jokes and memes, with some calling “to get this clown removed from his position.”“David Lammy should just resign now,” insisted political analyst Nile Gardiner, a former aide to ex-Tory leader Margaret Thatcher.Adding to his humiliation, a squeamish Lammy was forced to listen to his old words being read back to him during an interview with the BBC on Friday — and tried...