Trump makes big promise to Britain about what he will do when he enters the White House: ‘Position of honour’
Donald Trump has promised to return a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office as a ‘sign of respect’ for Britain’s great wartime leader.
The bronze bust was removed by ‘woke’ Joe Biden when he defeated Trump in 2020 and replaced with a bust of Spanish labor leader Cesar Chavez.
Trump, a self-confessed Anglophile whose mother was Scottish, has described Churchill as his idol.
Last night a source close to Trump said: “One of the first things he will do is return the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office as a sign of respect.”
‘Donald idolizes Churchill and believes he is the greatest leader the world has ever seen. He will restore him to a position of honor.’
Donald Trump has said one of his first actions will be to return the bronze bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office as a “sign of respect” for the wartime prime minister.
Trump previously called Churchill his “hero” and called the Oscar-winning film The Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Churchill, “my favorite movie ever.”
Trump previously called the Oscar-winning film The Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Churchill, “my favorite movie ever.”
The bust of Churchill, by English modernist sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, was a gift from Winston Churchill’s war friends to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
It occupied a place of honor in the Oval Office until 2009, when Barack Obama replaced it with one of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
At the time, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who wrote a best-selling biography of Churchill, described Obama’s criticism as “an ancestral abhorrence of the British Empire.”
When Trump defeated Hillary Clinton — who ran for the White House after Obama served the maximum two terms — he immediately removed the bust of Martin Luther King in the 2016 election and restored Churchill “to his rightful place.”
Trump condemned demonstrators who defaced a statue of Churchill in Parliament Square in London with “racism” during the Black Lives Matters protests.
The source said: ‘He thought it was a shame that people were attacking Churchill’s image when Churchill saved the world from Hitler’s tyranny.’
Trump’s close friend Nigel Farage this week called Trump’s conviction of Kamala Harris “the greatest comeback since Churchill,” referring to Churchill’s defeat in the 1945 general election to return to power in 1951.
Trump’s close friend Nigel Farage this week called Trump’s conviction of Kamala Harris “the greatest comeback since Churchill,” referring to the fact that Churchill was defeated in the 1945 general election and returned to power in 1951.
Last night Churchill’s grandson Lord Nicholas Soames told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’m obviously very happy. That’s beautiful. I’m glad he does. I’m happy’
Trump forged close ties with the Churchill family during his first term. He visited Churchill’s birthplace Blenheim Palace and befriended the 12th Duke of Marlborough, whom he affectionately calls ‘The Dook’.
The duke, also known as Jamie Blandford, sealed their friendship with a four-day trip to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2019.
Whether the return of the Churchill bust to the Oval Office will soothe relations between the president-elect and the Labor government remains to be seen.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy had described Trump in a 2019 tweet as “a deluded, dishonest, xenophobic narcissist and “no friend to Britain.”
Historian and Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts (aka Lord Roberts of Belgravia) said: ‘This is excellent news, but only makes sense if President Trump also supports it through Churchill’s signature policy of opposing totalitarian dictatorships that invade their neighbors without provocation to take.’
The bronze bust was removed by ‘woke’ Joe Biden when he defeated Trump in 2020 and replaced with a bust of Spanish labor leader Cesar Chavez
Broadcaster and former Conservative MP Rory Stewart said: ‘I am delighted that the bust of Winston Churchill is returning to the Oval Office. Whatever we all think of Donald Trump, and I am – to put it mildly – not a fan, it is very important for Britain that we maintain a positive relationship with the President of the United States – who remains the indispensable power in the world and the center of the world. international order.’
Lord Michael Dobbs, author of the House of Cards trilogy said: ‘It is a beautiful sculpture. Churchill himself was half-American – his mother Jenny was born in Brooklyn.
‘He believed that a partnership between our two countries was the best guarantee for a safe world. It is a sign of enormous hope that President Trump wants to draw inspiration from him.
‘It would also be very helpful if Labor Cabinet ministers would stop insulting him.’
Last night Churchill’s grandson Lord Nicholas Soames told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’m obviously very happy. That’s beautiful. I’m glad he does. I’m very happy.’
