Brexit leader: Trump the ‘new Ronald Reagan’

Nigel Farage, one the leaders of the so-called Brexit movement, is comparing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to former President Ronald Reagan.

{mosads}”It is worth remembering that virtually everyone thought that Ronald Reagan was unfit to be the US President before he made a huge success of his two terms,” Farage wrote in an op-ed published Saturday in The Daily Mail, titled “Trump was MY warm-up man… but I gave him a bounce – and he’ll be the new Ronald Reagan.”  

“When I watched his acceptance speech in Cleveland it appeared to be disjointed. It simply didn’t flow,” Farage wrote.

“But what I saw from just a few feet away in Jackson was something different. He was a better and more confident speaker,” he continued. “He stuck in a disciplined manner to a script. I sensed that his new campaign team have him on the right track. I really don’t believe that he is the monster painted by many.”

Farage spoke at a Trump rally last week in Jackson, Miss., where he bashed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and drew parallels between the British vote to leave the European Union, or Brexit, and the upcoming presidential election in the U.S.

Farage continued to point out similarities between the people supporting Trump and those who backed the Brexit decision.

“Most of the crowd I met after the rally had never voted in their lives,” he wrote.

“They are the same people who made Brexit happen. They see Washington as distant and aloof, just as many Leave voters saw rule from Brussels.”

He also commended the Republican nominee for being strong on the issue of immigration.

After having met Trump, Farage said he is “far less worried.” He added that Trump would be able to “sensibly make the big decisions” if he were elected to the White House.

Farage also slammed Clinton, saying she represents the “failed past” and can’t accept Brexit or address the issue of immigration.

“Perhaps if I donate to the Clinton Foundation her views on me might soften,” he wrote.

“It does seem a little strange that I am now being used as a political football in the American presidential campaign. But it shows that Brexit is a truly global event.”

Trump has embraced the Brexit movement, in the past tweeting that soon people would be calling him “Mr. Brexit.” In his introduction of Farage last week, Trump praised the movement.

“I was very supportive of their right to do it and to take control of their own future. That’s exactly what we’re going to be voting for on Nov. 8,” Trump said.