Trump-May meeting a win for two great nationsNY Post, Jan 28, 2017, Editorial Board
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.
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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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