
It’s easy to come on top when you’re negotiating with Donald Trump, so long as you’re prepared to sacrifice your dignity, ethics, and self-respect. As leaders around the world have long realized, the way to get on the President’s good side is through crawling flattery and submissiveness, and perhaps throwing in a $400 million private jet for good measure.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has clearly been paying attention, as he’s just delivered a masterclass in brown-nosing Trump. Trump has now effectively deleted tariffs for the United Kingdom and said it was “because I like them”.