Trump was a consistent supporter of British efforts to leave the European Union, despite the initial confusion over what \u2018Brexit<\/em>\u2019 actually meant.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Speaking to Michael Wolff of the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> last summer, Trump seemed to suggest that he did not know the meaning of Brexit.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Brexit? Your position?<\/em>\u201d Wolff asked.<\/p>\n \u201cHuh?<\/em>\u201d the then-presumptive Republican nominee replied.<\/p>\n \u201cBrexit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHmm.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n After the term was explained to Trump, he replied: \u201cOh yeah, I think they should leave.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s support for Brexit has been highly controversial.<\/p>\n Immediately after the result of the Brexit referendum was released, Trump flew to Scotland, where he claimed his presidential campaign had helped the Brexiteers to take \u201cback their country.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re angry over borders, they\u2019re angry over people coming into the country and taking over, nobody even knows who they are,<\/em>\u201d said Trump during the grand reopening of one of his Scottish golf resorts.<\/p>\n Scottish politicians and commentators attacked the then-presumptive Republican nominee for endorsing Brexit. Scotland overwhelmingly voted in favor of remaining in the EU.<\/p>\n @realDonaldTrump<\/a> you couldn’t be more out of touch with reality if Nessie bit you on the arse you utter fool. Scotland voted REMAIN.<\/p>\n \u2014 Terry McDermott (@TerryMacMusic) 24 June 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Trump\u2019s support of the Brexit movement brought him closer to Nigel Farage, the ex-leader of UKIP.<\/p>\n Farage, who participated in a number of Trump rallies, was later recommended by the US president for the post of UK ambassador to the US, in breach of diplomatic conventions.<\/p>\n Trump reaffirmed his support for Brexit in an interview with the Times<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cYou look at the European Union and its Germany. Basically a vehicle for Germany. That\u2019s why I thought the UK was so smart in getting out,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He also said he expects other countries to withdraw from the EU following Brexit.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe others will leave. I do think keeping it together is not going to be as easy as a lot of people think,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Speaking to the Financial Times<\/a>, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker criticized these remarks as inflammatory and threatening the security of the European continent.<\/p>\n \u201cDo not invite others to leave, because if the EU collapses, you will have another war in the western Balkans.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe only possibility for this tortured part of Europe is to have a European perspective. If we leave them to themselves \u2014 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska [Serbia], Macedonia, Albania, all of these countries \u2014 we will have a war again,<\/em>\u201d Junker added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. 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