Former British MP: 'Trump's comments expose poor US leadership'

George Galloway, a former British MP and one of the protest organizers awaiting Donald Trump during the president's scheduled state visit, commented to the editors about the cancellation of the trip and the Republican's position during his time in the Oval Office.

"I was one of the organizers of Stop the War, possibly the biggest demonstration in British history," Galloway said. "Two million people before the [Iraq] war in 2003. Now we had the prospect of organizing an even larger demonstration, but canceled after Donald Trump's absurd declaration." Because he did not like the new US embassy property, he decided not to come ".

Galloway also ironically commented on the fact that it was Republican George W. Bush - not Obama, as he accused Trump - of authorizing a change of diplomatic facility.

"There are a lot of things to blame for Obama, but the new embassy south of the Thames, which Trump obviously thinks is a bad part of London, is a bad example. I do not care if it's a good or bad deal, but I feel like we were deprived of the opportunity to send a worldwide message of rejection of Donald Trump's foreign policies, his endless stream of excretions on Twitter, and of course his latest racist outburst, which was rightly condemned around the world, "he protested, referring to the supposed comment of the president classifying Haiti, El Salvador and several African nations as "countries of death".

The former parliamentarian then discussed the turbulent history between the US and Haiti, dating back almost from the beginning of the first black republic of the world. The island was under US occupation from 1915 to 1934. The US also enacted an embargo against the repressive military dictatorship until after 1986, often cited as one of the causes of Haiti's current economic weakness.

"The words of Donald Trump have no such ugly precedents," Galloway said. "But the actions of the United States against Haiti over the centuries - and I'm not talking about years or decades - were even worse than the most horrible words Donald Trump could invoke."


Galloway, however, said he saw a positive point in Trump's command. "It's a good thing that the American leadership is as horrible as it is today. It would have been worse if Hillary Clinton had been an American leader because that would have given her an unjustified sense of respectability for a set of really bad worldviews."