Trump doppelgänger Boris Johnson was pleased with the US election results, but was concerned about MAGA's "weird homoerotic fascination" with Vladimir Putin.
"I think there's a faction in the Republican party that has a strange weird homoerotic fascination for Putin, that I personally don't share," the former UK Prime Minister said at Fortune's Global Forum conference on Monday. "Some of these people think he's an all-around stand-up guy and they like his manly Christianity."
"It's complete nonsense! Complete nonsense. He's a tyrant and a kleptocrat and a murderer and a very, very dangerous and bad man," he added. "But there's no question that some of those people are in the 47th president's ear. And they're whispering a lot of absolute nonsense to him, as is [Hungarian dictator] Viktor Orbán. And there's a lot of dangerous, poisonous, pernicious talk at the moment." (See video below, starting at 12:40, posted by Fortune Magazine.)
In 2022, Johnson — along with Canada's Justin Trudeau — mocked Putin at a three-day G7 summit for riding horseback half-naked. "Jackets on? Jackets off? Shall we take our clothes off?" he joked. "We all have to show that we're tougher than Putin."
"We're going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display," Trudeau added, to which Johnson said, "There you go! There you go! We've got to show them our pecs!" (You can see that video here.)
Previously: Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau mock half-naked Putin at G7 summit
