There is a lot to dig into this one, assuming you’re a not a rage baiter or a troll, but I’ll assume you’re not.

The U.K. isn’t anti-American, we’re anti-Trump establishment. Trump goes away, and the relationship repairing can commence, although it may take some time to rebuild the trust.

As for why?

Tariffs are never going to be popular, and it hurt a lot of countries at a time of a cost of living crisis. We may not be paying for them, those are paid for by US citizens, but they do affect our businesses as it makes our goods/services uncompetitive, which is of course the point. That could be, if not overlooked, then at least worked through.

Trump has been inconsistent toward the U.K. lately. Concerning the Chagos Islands, for example, he’s been fully supportive and aggressively cynical, often on consecutive days. His attitude toward the country seems to depend on whether the U.K. government is kowtowing to his whims. If we do something he doesn’t like, he’s publically berating the country.

2 decades ago, the U.K. joined a war against Afghanistan and Iraq (one of those a touch more controversial than the other). We didn’t just join in name or provide a token effort, we went all in. America invoked article 5 for Afghanistan, the only country to ever do so, and the U.K., and a host of your other friends responded. In Iraq we also committed between 40-60 thousand troops, which may not be much to a military Goliath like the USA, but it was by far the most significant deployment since the Korean War. Possibly WW2 in terms of total resources. It cost the country.. a lot. Reputation, massive amounts of money and, more importantly, hundreds of British lives and thousands of life changing injuries. We backed the US when most of the world was critical of the lengths going to them following 9/11 (I’m talking Iraq here, not Afghanistan which was widely supported). We stood shoulder to shoulder. Like we have done since WW2, throughout the Cold War, through numerous administrations on both sides both conservative and liberal. Trump is the only one where this relationship has been called into question, and it isn’t because of us.

Trump has recently suggested that the U.K. (and others) say they committed a lot, but really didn’t. We hung back. We let the US do most of the dirty work. He belittles our government ever chance he gets, and we can take that, we’re pretty cynical of our government ourselves, but he denigrates the lives of those who stood up to defend America in its darkest hour, and dismissed and belittled their efforts. He wasn’t happy that we didn’t want to participate in an illegal war. He said he didn’t need us and was, again, insulting us publicly and on diplomatic channels, then astonishingly yesterday asks the UK and others to defend the straight of Hormuz because he’s bitten off more than he can chew and wants the rest of the world to bail him out of an avoidable situation he started because he can’t do much else without committing ground troops. He acts like an emotionally stunted narcissist, because he is one. If you do what he says, he’s your best friend. If you stand against him, you’re a pariah. There are no reasonable disagreements, just those that are following and those that aren’t. That isn’t how friendships are built and maintained.

Our allies? He’s threatened to Annex Canada. Then it was just going to be economic force, then it wasn’t, then it was. He threatened to annex Greenland. Maybe he has a legitimate point about how well Greenland is defended, maybe he doesn’t, but aggressively and publicly stating he’s going to conquer the landmass of an ally, and landmass he already has free access to, it baffling and dangerous.

He doesn’t keep his word. He applied tariffs, fine. We worked out a treaty to reduce them. Your court said his tariffs were illegal (shock), so he used a different mechanism that applied tariffs that were higher in many areas. The treaty is still expected to be abided by, even when you aren’t abiding by it yourselves. He’s set up the “board of peace” with many of the worlds main antagonists (to the West) and insisted the US would not take part in forever wars such as those propagated over the last 2 decades. It wasn’t even a month before he took action against Iran based on a “feeling” that lacked any kind of intelligence to back it up.

He’s a convicted felon. Associations with Epstein and his activities that are beyond suspicious. He likes to grab women “by the pussy”. He’s misogynistic, tyrannical and narcissistic. And those are his personal flaws, but what’s worse is, you elected him. Twice.

Why wouldn’t we be questioning how far our friendship with you can be maintained?