Trump-May meeting a win for two great nations
Trump-May meeting a win for two great nations
By Post Editorial Board
January 28, 2017 | 12:16am
It’s good to see the US-UK “special relationship” is back, along with the Oval Office bust of Winston Churchill, after President Trump’s meeting Friday with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
The two very different leaders owe their offices to twin populist surprises — Trump’s remarkable Election Day win, and the British vote to leave the European Union, which prompted the resignation of May’s predecessor, David Cameron.
The surprises kept up with the failure of the elites’ doomsday predictions: UK growth sped up after the Brexit vote, and beat expectations in the latest quarter, too. Over here, the “Trump rally” has pushed the Dow above 20,000, with polls also showing average Americans’ economic optimism on the rise.
The two countries seem to be in step again — as in the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, or Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
Trump was right to note that the “special relationship between our two countries has been one of the great forces in history for justice and for peace” and that “a free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.”
And May was on point in her turn: “We are at a moment now when we can build an even stronger special relationship” — since she must deal with EU leaders eager to make Brexit as painful as possible, while Trump has to show how his “America first” approach can boost traditional US alliances.
On that note, it was good to hear May report, after their closed-door meeting: “We are united in recognition of NATO as the bulwark of our collective defense.”
For the new president’s first face-to-face with a fellow world leader, it couldn’t have gone better.
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