Citing the authority of two unnamed sources, Politico.eu announced Jan. 28, that the Trump administration had accepted the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to Washington, pending only his “rubber-stamping” by President Trump, producing “sighs of relief” in London, The Independent wrote.
That claim has yet to be made official, but not for lack of groveling by “Randy Mandy,” as this Tony Blair operative was dubbed decades before Jeffrey Epstein’s comings and goings or Mandelson’s alleged ties to him became a public scandal. In a typical display of British deceit and arrogance, Mandelson told Fox News in a Jan. 29 interview that he no longer believed that President Trump is “a “danger to the world” and “little short of a white nationalist and racist,” as he had stated in 2019. Those remarks were “ill-judged and wrong, and I think that the times and attitudes towards the President have changed since then,” Mandelson declared, blaming his comments on how British politics had been “very fraught” and full of “high emotion” at the time. He asserted also that his appointment was as “His Majesty King Charles’ ambassador” to the United States, not merely the ambassador of the Keir Starmer government. (The British publicly discuss their belief that President Trump has a soft spot for “the Royals” which they can exploit.)
This is all theater. The British “high emotion” which motivated Mandelson’s 2019 denigration of President Trump was laid out in the December 2018 House of Lords report, “U.K. Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order,” which declared that a second Trump administration could not be allowed under any circumstances, if the Anglo-American “special relationship” were to be preserved.