{"id":19580,"date":"2024-12-22T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-campaign-adviser-calls-lord-mandelson-an-absolute-moron\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T08:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:03:53","slug":"trump-campaign-adviser-calls-lord-mandelson-an-absolute-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-campaign-adviser-calls-lord-mandelson-an-absolute-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign adviser calls Lord Mandelson ‘an absolute moron’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A top campaign adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump has called the incoming UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, “an absolute moron”.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Chris LaCivita said Lord Mandelson “should stay home”.<\/p>\n

Mr LaCivita, who was a co-campaign manager for Trump’s presidential election bid, criticised the British government’s decision saying it was replacing a “professional universally respected ambo [ambassador] with an absolute moron”.<\/p>\n

Lord Mandelson is one of the best-known figures in British politics,<\/a> having served in multiple ministerial roles under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before taking up a life peerage in the Lords.<\/p>\n

He called his appointment as the UK’s next ambassador to the US as “a great honour”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As first reported in The Times, Lord Mandelson will replace Dame Karen Pierce, whose term in Washington DC is due to end as Trump enters the White House in early 2025.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” during his years as New Labour’s spin doctor, the 71-year-old will now be the key link between the prime minister and Trump’s incoming administration during a crucial time for US-UK diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Like other senior Labour figures, Lord Mandelson has a record of criticising Donald Trump, once describing him as “little short of a white nationalist and racist”.<\/p>\n

Those comments were the focus of Mr LaCivita’s criticism of Lord Mandelson, as he said in his post on X that the incoming ambassador “described Trump as a danger to the world and ‘little short of a white nationalist'”.<\/p>\n

Mr LaCivita, a veteran of Republican politics with decades of experience, was a senior adviser to Trump’s 2024 election campaign but currently has no official role in the administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement following his appointment, Lord Mandelson said: “We face challenges in Britain, but also big opportunities and it will be a privilege to work with the government to land those opportunities.” <\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” to appoint Lord Mandelson.<\/p>\n

“The United States is one of our most important allies and as we move into a new chapter in our friendship,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Peter will bring unrivalled experience to the role and take our partnership from strength to strength.”<\/p>\n

Sir Keir also thanked Dame Karen for “her invaluable service for the last four years, and in particular the wisdom and steadfast support she has given me personally since July”.<\/p>\n

UK ambassadors are normally career diplomats or civil servants, but Downing Street said choosing a leading Labour politician “shows just how importantly we see our relationship with the Trump administration”.<\/p>\n

It comes as senior Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith challenged the decision.<\/p>\n

He called for an investigation to scrutinise Lord Mandelson’s appointment, his background and “whether or not this is reliable or anyway likely to cause offence in the United States”.<\/p>\n

“He’s not a diplomatic appointee, he’s a political appointee and political appointees often carry baggage, particularly if they’ve been out of parliament and out of government for some time,” Sir Iain added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a recently unearthed interview with an Italian journalist in 2019, Lord Mandelson described Trump as a “reckless and a danger to the world”.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 interview with the Evening Standard, he also called Trump “a bully”.<\/p>\n

Since being touted as a potential candidate for the US-ambassador role, considered the most prestigious diplomatic post in the UK government, Lord Mandelson has softened his language on Trump.<\/p>\n

In November he made a pitch on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme to create “a new relationship rather than a special one” with the US.<\/p>\n

He also told News Agents podcast it is “absolutely essential that we establish a relationship with President Trump that enables us not only to understand and interpret what he’s doing but to influence it”.<\/p>\n

He added that the Labour government should try to “reconnect” with Trump’s ally and tech multi-billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

Musk, who has been critical of Sir Keir’s government, has been appointed head of new advisory team the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which is not an official government department. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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