Here's a scary thought, the first UK politician to meet Donald Trump was not Prime Minister Theresa May, or Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
No, it was in fact former leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage. The pair were pictured posing together in a gold-plated lift.
In many ways it's easy to see why the two of them get on. Politically, each of them combine anti-globalist, 'anti-establishment' rhetoric, claiming to be men of the people, despite themselves coming from privileged backgrounds.
Farage speaks following Trump's victory. Credit: BBC
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Donald Trump was born into a million-dollar property empire and his career as a businessman has been filled with deals that exploited workers and customers, highlighted by the fact that during his campaign he refused to make public his tax returns. He was the first major-party US presidential nominee since Gerald Ford in 1976 not to make his tax returns public.
Nigel Farage is a public school-educated former banker, who has been reported to use his expenses as an MEP to employ 'both his wife and mistress'.
The two of them met for an hour and, according to the Telegraph, Farage used the occasion to press him on the important issue of returning a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office.
Speaking afterwards he said that Trump, an Anglophile, was 'excited' by the idea and was 'very positive' about returning the bust to the White House.
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However, Farage warned that Mrs May would have to 'mend some fences' in order to build a successful relationship with Mr Trump after she made 'rude comments' about him during the EU referendum, adding that critics of Mr Trump should 'stop whingeing' and 'just get on with it'.
Twitter responded the only way it knows how, with banter...
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