Despite previously criticizing Obama for trying to influence the UK’s EU referendum vote, and saying that Trump’s policy promise to ban Muslims from the US is ’a political mistake too far’, Nigel Farage has shown his support to the would-be President of the United States.
Not only has he spoken kindly of the petulant nominee for the Republican ticket, but he went to America, shaved off his moustache and gave a pro-Trump speech at one of his rallies. He said he 'wouldn't fall into the trap' of calling it an endorsement, but also said 'you couldn't pay me to vote for Hillary' which is probably because he is a) supremely right wing and b) rich.
Speaking in Jackson, Mississippi, to 15,000 activists, he said, as can be seen on the BBC's website: ‘If you want change in this country, you better get your walking boots on, you better get out there campaigning.
‘And remember, anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up against the establishment.’
FYI, Farage went to a public school - a really swish one at that - before becoming a city trader (a banker) before turning to, um, politics. That’s about as establishment as pavements or the royal family or oak trees or bowler hats and cucumber sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.
We could go on about their politics, about how crass it is for Farage, in the home city of the Civil Rights Movement’s March Against Fear, a demonstration held in 1966 against racist discrimination, to call for people to get their walking boots on to march in the name of Trump. A man who kind of wants to destroy equal rights!
But we could also wonder why on earth Farage, a man who doesn’t like brown people that much, wants to be one? Appearing so tanned it bordered on blackface, Farage left us wondering - where did he get his tan from?
Discarding the notion that he’d do it himself, using a jar of Bovril and a handkerchief to daub himself brown, let’s take a look at the nearest tanning salons to the Mississippi Coliseum, where the event was held. There is a grand total of, um, one tanning salon in Jackson, where, incidentally, according to the 2010 census, the city is 80% African American.
Casting aside our worries about how a Trump rally fared in a city of this demographic for a second, let's take a look at Sun Gallery. What treatments does Sun Gallery offer? Well, to ‘Keep Your Glow all year long…’ and a ‘convenient and economical way to tan’ via sunbeds or spray tan. Either way, we just hope he kept those plasticky knickers on tight, for the sake of the staff.
While we want to establish that it’s not 100% the reason why Farage went there, they do also do waxing, which is definitely the way we’d like to remove his moustache.
So maybe that’s why Farage was so tanned for Trump. The mystery as to Trump’s patchwork colouring of orange and a-bit-less-orange-but-still-orangey is yet to be solved.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.