Trump praises PM and her desire to reduce taxes

DONALD TRUMP has said that he backs Liz Truss and that he thinks “very highly” of her.

In an interview on GB News with Laurence Fox, the former US president said of Ms Truss that he liked “some of the things she’s done”, adding that he had “cut taxes very substantially and we did much more business and she’s done that”.

He said that he thinks “very highly of the Prime Minister and she had a great send-off from the Queen”, adding that as it was the last meeting Queen Elizabeth II had it was a “big deal”.

Trump said that King Charles would be “different now” and would do “very well” in his new role.

“I know him very well, quite well. And I spent a lot of time when I was over there as president with him. And with his wife [who] was absolutely lovely, by the way, and we had a good time together,” he said.

“And I, you know, so I’m a little prejudiced when I say it, but, you know, he had a strong view on things.

“Probably difficult when you’re the King you want to have 100 per cent of the people love you like the Queen did. The Queen had – everybody loved her, right? She didn’t have that kind of an agenda.

“And yet, you know, she was a very strong woman. I got to know her too. She was a very strong woman, a great woman.

“I think Charles is going to do very well.”

Mr Trump added that the King would “probably keep it where it’s politically a little bit, because he feels very strongly about certain things and not everybody agrees with that”.

“I think he’ll probably not discuss certain elements of what he believes,

‘Johnson went liberal all of a sudden ... ultimately, that was the thing that really got him out’

100 per cent,” the ex-president added.

Mrtrump said Boris Johnson was a “friend of mine, and perhaps still is”, but had run into difficulties because he “went liberal all of a sudden, he went to the other side”.

“But he’s, he’s a good guy, but he changed. He was a conservative guy and he became much less than conservative. And I think a lot of people didn’t like it. They didn’t like it.

“I believe he really is. And I think ultimately, that was the thing that really got him out. I don’t believe it was the party. I think the party was just an excuse.”