Minister Uses Elon Musk And JD Vance's Own Words To Excuse Labour's Past Anti-Trump Remarks

A curate coming utilized JD Vance and Elon Musk’s previous criticisms of Donald Trump to explicate distant Labour’s past comments astir nan president-elect.

The Republican won his 2nd word successful nan White House connected Wednesday, 4 years aft his first polarising presidency ended.

That has led to humanities comments astir Trump by elder Labour figures who are now successful authorities to beryllium dredged up again.

The now-foreign caput David Lammy called him a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” successful 2018, while now-PM Keir Starmer criticised Boris Johnson after he won an endorsement from Trump.

But furniture agency curate Pat McFadden defended his party’s awkward past by pointing retired that moreover those now closest to Trump – for illustration vice-president elite Vance and tech tycoon Musk – besides slammed him.

On Sky News this morning, presenter Wilfred Frost asked McFadden if Labour “regrets this anti-Trump sentiment”.

McFadden replied: “There’s been a batch of things that person been said complete nan years, but not conscionable present successful nan UK, including successful nan US.

“If you look astatine what vice president [elect] JD Vance said astir Trump, he mused whether this was going to beryllium different Richard Nixon aliases America’s Hitler.

“And that’s not held him backmost from being nan moving mate.

“Elon Musk, arsenic well, advised Trump to locomotion disconnected into nan sunset a mates of years ago, and he’s go Trump’s biggest backer successful business.”

He besides pointed retired that some of these caller governments successful nan US and nan UK person to activity together for nan adjacent 4 years.

But Frost asked again astir “regret” and pointed to societal media posts from Labour’s caput of operations astir providing accommodation for statement activists who flew to nan US to door-knock for Kamala Harris.

But McFadden maintained that it was “such an important alliance” betwixt nan countries, which is “more important than each of those things” Frost mentioned.

“I deliberation those shared values and interests are much important than immoderate tweet from nevertheless galore years ago,” nan curate added.

So Frost changed tact and said: “Is it rather large and commendable of Donald Trump to forgive and hide that these comments were made successful nan past?”

But McFadden side-stepped that question. He conscionable said nan congratulatory telephone telephone betwixt nan PM and nan president past night, and their meal together successful nan States past period were “positive caller signs” of their bully relationship.

He added: “If president-elect Trump chose not to speak to everybody who said thing astir him successful nan past, you wouldn’t person nan vice-president elite you have.

“I deliberation he tin look past these things.”

The curate besides said he wanted Sky’s viewers to beryllium clear wherever Labour stands correct now: “As a friend and state to America, and that will beryllium enduring successful nan adjacent fewer years pinch nan caller president.”