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Top British Diplomat Assails Trump's 'Inept' Presidency In Leaked Memos

U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., Kim Darroch, paints Trump as an incompetent leader of a "diplomatically clumsy" administration, in memos sent to U.K.'s Foreign Office and leaked to the Daily Mail.
Kim Darroch, the U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., calls President Trump an inadequate leader who poses a threat to the international trade system, in memos leaked to the <em>Daily Mail</em>.

In a series of confidential memos sent to the British Foreign Office, the U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., Kim Darroch, assails President Trump's character and leadership.

The which first the diplomatic cables, reports that Darroch describes Trump as an insecure and incompetent leader of an administration marred by "vicious

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