Trump Allies Tried to Block Mandelson as UK Ambassador to US
New reports reveal Trump's team intervened to prevent the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, citing his past criticism of the president.
Donald Trump's presidential transition team repeatedly intervened in UK prime minister Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, it has been reported.
Trump's aides were particularly exercised that Mandelson could be made ambassador after he had made disparaging public remarks about the president in the past, according to both officials.
Donald Trump created an extremely awkward moment for Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, in the Oval Office on Thursday when he responded to a question from a Japanese reporter about why the US attacked Iran without warning allies like Japan, by joking about Imperial Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Japan's prime minister said later she explained to Trump that Japan's ability to deploy military forces overseas, as he wants, is still limited by the constitution drafted for Japan by the United States after the second world war.
Source: The Guardian
