Mike

PERHAPS the ‘spat’ between the greatest US President ever called Donald Trump and Theresa May is a cunning plan cooked up between the two less-than-popular leaders.

Trump, being the chivalrous type, obviously knows his pal May is getting a bit of a kicking over the £50bn Brexit divorce bill.

Before that it was a kicking regarding the ongoing benefits freeze which is saving enough money to pay the DUP to keep her government in power.

And before that it was Universal Credit, Grenfell Tower...and on and on. What’s a man to do?

A distraction was needed to make May look like she had a backbone and was even remotely aware of how a PM is supposed to act. It would be a big ask but a bust-up with Trump surely fitted the bill.

To pull it off, he had to set aside his previous attempts to unite all ethnic and religious communities in the US behind his rainbow banner and retweet three posts by deputy leader Jayda Fransen of the far-right group Britain First to his followers.

It includes unverified footage purporting to show Muslims committing crimes. (That must have hurt because we all know how much he hates fake news.)

Responding to Trump’s actions, May’s official spokesperson said: “It is wrong for the