'Trump with better hair': how Obama White House saw Boris Johnson

The former president was taken aback by claims he was anti-British ahead of pre-Brexit referendum visit, a memoir says

The Obama White House viewed Boris Johnson as a British version of Donald Trump “with better hair”, according to a forthcoming memoir by a former top presidential adviser.

In the World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser and speechwriter for the former president, describes eight years of domestic and foreign policy making, culminating in the shock of Trump’s victory in November 2016.

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