President Donald Trump may be a big fan of Britain’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
But the wartime leader’s grandson, Nicholas Soames, certainly doesn’t feel the same way about the US commander in chief — who he’s called a “daft twerp.”
On Friday, Trump appeared to blame the “spread of radical Islamic terror” for a 13 percent rise in crime in the UK:
“Not good, we must keep America safe!” Trump tweeted.
To which the 69-year-old Soames, Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, replied:
According to Merriam-Webster, “daft” can equate to “silly,” “foolish,” “mad” or “insane.” It defines “twerp” as “a silly, insignificant or contemptible person.”
Other leading political figures also called out Trump over his tweet:
While the Office for National Statistics has indeed reported a 13 percent increase in crime, it actually relates to all 5.2 million police-recorded offenses. Only 329 of those were terrorism-related.
Officials put “much” of the rise down to better crime recording methods. The statistics also only covered England and Wales, and not the whole of the UK as Trump suggested.