It\u2019s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president\u2019s thumb is at half-mast. It\u2019s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK<\/p>\n
When Liz Truss tweeted a photo of herself<\/a> standing next to Donald Trump, she captioned it \u201cright about everything\u201d. All that effort, all that security clearance and long-haul travel and whatnot, to reach the pinnacle of proximity to your spiritual leader, and that\u2019s the best she could come up with? It was bafflingly lame. And yet the least confusing thing about this scene were the words.<\/p>\n What exactly is going on in this photo? Truss clearly knows where she is, because she\u2019s grinning with a kind of victorious serenity, as if she\u2019s finally achieved the plaudit she knew all along was hers. At the same time \u2013 not wishing to be unsisterly \u2013 she doesn\u2019t appear to have brushed her hair, so it doesn\u2019t feel like this photo opportunity was in anyone\u2019s diary. It looks like a selfie you\u2019d catch when you run into your favourite contestant from The Traitors on your way through an airport. No time to worry about your grooming; it\u2019s the chance of a lifetime, every second counts.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president\u2019s thumb is at half-mast. It\u2019s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK When Liz Truss tweeted a photo of herself standing next to Donald Trump, she captioned it \u201cright about everything\u201d. All that effort, all that security … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}