Trump says he would be 'tougher' in Brexit talks than Theresa May

President Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May at Davos
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President Trump claimed in a televised interview set to air Sunday in the United Kingdom he would be "tougher" than British Prime Minister Theresa May were he responsible for Brexit negotiations to leave the European Union.

"Would it be the way I'd negotiate? No, I wouldn't negotiate it the way it's negotiated," he said in a preview clip. "I would have said that the European Union is not cracked up to what it's supposed to be and I would have taken a tougher stand in getting out." Trump did not offer any specifics of how he would be tougher in the excerpt released ahead of the full interview.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.