Official White House photo by Daniel Torok Poor Micheál, who may have expected it from Joe Biden – that 20th-century Irish catholic. Of course a president prone to quoting Heaney and Yeats might display some favouritism to the Republic of Ireland. And there it was in 2020, hard proof: if Westminster screws up the invisible Irish border, Biden said, the Anglo-American trade deal is off.
Chalk it up to the misty-eyed, Hibernian nostalgia of those East Coast, establishment Democrats. At least they remember the Good Friday Agreement. But who could have seen any of this coming from a Republican Presbyterian Scot?
Donald Trump’s factory setting ought to be Ulster Says No. Why, then, did he spend the best part of his weekend making the case for Irish unification? (Or a “unified” Ireland in Trumpian malapropism). “You have Northern Ireland and you have Ireland – it would seem to me one of the naturals of all time is to put them together,” he said.
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