Do you think Trump will really run?
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I do. An argument that speaks against him: He is now 76 years old. The last time I saw him was the last weekend in April. I was in Mar-a-Lago. He has lost a significant amount of weight. He plays a lot of golf, which is really good. he goes out He trains. He looks very relaxed.
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“Excuse me. You gave a speech here.” A fan interrupts us. The woman asks him to “definitely come back”. Farage maintains close contacts in the USA – he stands for the networking of the international right, like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who spoke at CPAC on Thursday, or Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. He is also connected to Germany’s right-wing AfD. He also recommended that the Austrian FPÖ leave the European Union.
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You said Trump was relaxed.
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The next interruption: Ben Cline, Member of the US House of Representatives, from the state of Virginia. He wants to “build bridges, especially in the area of free trade agreements,” says Cline. It’s one of the great promises made by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – it fell through. There is still no trade agreement with the United States. Farage discourages conservative congressman. That didn’t work under Trump for four years because the conservatives in Britain didn’t believe in it. “Now you have Biden,” says Farage.
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But everyone in the US is now talking about Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. He is considered one of Trump’s main rivals among Republicans. Do you think he’d better wait?
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Ron DeSantis is incredibly talented. Very impressive. I had dinner with him last April. I was very impressed.
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Can he do something Trump can’t?
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What he’s showing in Florida is that he’s extremely competent. As governor, he can enact laws. He does that very well. The crucial question for the Republican presidential candidacy is: Which of the two candidates is more likely to win the Midwestern United States: Trump or DeSantis? I think Trump is more likely to do that.
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