In a radio interview with Nigel Farage, Donald Trump has launched a desperate attack on Jeremy Corbyn. And it serves as a perfect endorsement for the Labour leader.
You know you’re doing something right when Trump doesn’t like you
Speaking to Farage on LBC, Trump argued that:
Corbyn would be so bad for your country – he’d be so bad. He’d take you in such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places.
Talking about Boris Johnson, meanwhile, he said:
he’s a fantastic man, and I think he’s the exact right guy for the times.
Corbyn soon responded to Trump’s comments, saying:
Donald Trump is trying to interfere in Britain’s election to get his friend Boris Johnson elected.
It was Trump who said in June the NHS is “on the table”. And he knows if Labour wins US corporations won’t get their hands on it.
Our NHS is not for sale.pic.twitter.com/AUhht3pCgL
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 31, 2019
Earlier on, Corbyn had tweeted:
Boris Johnson’s toxic Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump could hand £500 million a week of NHS money to big drugs corporations.
We will stop them. The NHS is ours and it’s not up for grabs. https://t.co/Juov0IrbpP
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 31, 2019
A perfect endorsement
Many people on Twitter pointed out that this could hardly be a better endorsement for Corbyn, considering how terrible Trump is:
Corbyn tells the world we simply will not allow a Trump Brexit. Our NHS is #NotForSale
Trump has just called up his mate Farage to tell him how terrible Jeremy Corbyn is.
Rattled are we, Mr President? #WinWithLabour
— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) October 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/1189956018622619648?s=20
Congenital liar Donald Trump endorsing serial liar Boris Johnson is great news for Jeremy Corbyn, fuelling fears the Tories would sell the NHS to the US and lower food standards. Trump's unpopular in the UK – @YouGov found a 67%-19% negative rating https://t.co/eqhCZOmoXJ
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) October 31, 2019
Great ad for Jeremy Corbyn!
Donald Trump is desperate for a Brexit trade deal that opens our NHS up to greedy American pharmaceutical companies. Only @UKLabour can save us from a Trump-Johnson-Farage 😱 alliance #VoteLabour2019 https://t.co/gCcAxYQcOD— Faiza Shaheen (@faizashaheen) October 31, 2019
If you weren't sure about voting for a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour govt, this extraordinary attack on Jeremy should convince you.
Don't let Boris Johnson's Tories turn Britain into Donald Trump's poodle.https://t.co/MO2DYrXg0t
— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) October 31, 2019
Trump attacks Corbyn on Nigel Farage’s propaganda slot?
Short of an endorsement from Beyoncé herself, Labour really couldn’t have hoped for better. pic.twitter.com/hEYnB401xN
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) October 31, 2019
Kicking off Labour’s campaign on the same day, meanwhile, Corbyn said the election would be a clear battle between the people and the “elites” allied with Johnson. And he hit out at “tax dodgers, bad bosses, big polluters, and billionaire-owned media holding our country back”, calling out specific elitist figures by name. There were also chants of “not for sale” as he pledged to protect the NHS from a post-Brexit trade deal between the Conservatives and Trump. Corbyn clarified:
We stand for the many. Boris Johnson’s born-to-rule Conservatives protect the privileged few. They’ve slashed taxes for the richest and vital services and support for everyone else.
With this in mind, no one should be at all surprised that Trump fears Corbyn. And the fact that the Labour leader will not bow down to elitists like Trump and Johnson is the perfect endorsement – and the perfect reason to make him prime minister.
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