Former Conservative deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer, 85, said Donald Trump is ‘incredibly rude’, acted like a child, and that no country deserved a leader like him
Donald Trump has been branded “completely mad” by Tory grandee Jeffrey Archer, who has accused the US President of acting like a child since taking office.
Mr Archer, the 85-year-old former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, said that the American President was ‘incredibly rude’ and acts like a child. Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare – who was made a life peer in 1992 before being jailed for perjury in 2001 – said no country deserved a ‘leader’ like Trump.
Speaking last week, the author – who has sold more than 320m books worldwide – said: “Donald Trump cannot simply say it as it is he always has to embellish and obfuscate. He seems to have gone completely mad. He’s incredibly rude and childish, calling people ‘losers’ and ‘r*****s’.”
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Lord Archer, who has a £200m fortune, added: “He insults other statesmen like Emmanuel Macron, taunting them. It shows no decorum.
Having served myself with a fantastic prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, I know that there’s no way a country’s leader should behave like that.
“Who does he think he is? I don’t understand why more people don’t see him for what he is. It doesn’t matter if what he says isn’t true, if he says it with such conviction his voters believe him.
“He claims he’s the greatest US president ever – what about Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington and so on?”, he told the Saturday supplement in the Daily Telegraph last week.
It comes after Trump spent a speech to Navy sailors bitterly criticising his predecessor and boasting about his own accomplishments. He also insisted that he had predicted 9/11 and could have stopped the terrorist atrocity if anyone had heeded his warnings.
“Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center,” Trump declared during the speech.
“I said, ‘You’ve gotta watch Osama bin Laden.’ And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true.
“But, I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said one year before, in the book, I wrote – whatever the hell the title, I can’t tell you, but I can tell you there’s a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn’t like it, and ‘You’ve gotta take care of him,'” Trump insisted.