Nigel Farage: Trump’s Racist Attacks Are “Genius”

The Guardian reports:

Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s “go back” comments aimed at four congresswomen of colour as “genius”. The US president’s racist remarks were widely condemned after he told the four Democrats known as the Squad to return to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came”.

But the leader of Britain’s Brexit party praised Trump’s words as being politically shrewd, despite saying they made him feel uncomfortable. In an interview with the Times, Farage compared watching his ally’s “pretty brisk style” to being a child watching daleks on Doctor Who.

Farage, who has close links with the Trump administration, added: “I thought, ‘Dear, oh dear, oh dear’. You realise, 48 hours on, it was genius because what’s happened is the Democrats gather round the Squad, which allows him to say, ‘Oh look, the Squad are the centre of the Democratic party’.