{"id":69546,"date":"2026-03-20T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/the-greatest-challenge-farage-has-ever-faced-convincing-the-world-he-was-never-besties-with-donald-trump-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:10","slug":"the-greatest-challenge-farage-has-ever-faced-convincing-the-world-he-was-never-besties-with-donald-trump-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/the-greatest-challenge-farage-has-ever-faced-convincing-the-world-he-was-never-besties-with-donald-trump-marina-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced \u2013 convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don\u2019t like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade riding<\/p>\n<p>At last, the culture has thrown up a split more nauseatingly up itself than Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s from Chris Martin. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/mar\/10\/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war\">Nigel Farage\u2019s attempt<\/a> to consciously uncouple from Donald Trump, a man up whose backside he\u2019s spent the past decade most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/nov\/23\/farage-trump-buddy-photo-ukip\">firmly lodged<\/a>. Nigel\u2019s made such a massive, self-satisfied show of his real estate in the presidential large intestine for 10 years now that I actually don\u2019t think non-surgical extraction is possible at this stage. He doesn\u2019t just get to walk away whistling. The only way out is a full Faragectomy. I\u2019ll give the president a piece of drone fuselage to bite down on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/mar\/26\/conscious-uncoupling-gwyneth-paltrow-chris-martin\">conscious uncoupling<\/a>. Back in the day, you\u2019ll remember, Gwyneth and the Coldplay singer deployed this particular phrase when announcing their marital split. Did the public love it? They did not. The general vibe \u2013 as with so much of Her Vajesty\u2019s output \u2013 was that she would do even marriage failure more smugly and unachievably than mere plebs could ever. The pivot from gushing about her perfect marriage to gushing about her perfect divorce felt like mere days.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/20\/nigel-farage-donald-trump-reform-uk-us-president-besties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don\u2019t like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade riding At last, the culture has thrown up a split more nauseatingly up itself than Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s from Chris Martin. It is Nigel Farage\u2019s attempt to consciously uncouple from &#8230; <a title=\"The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced \u2013 convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/the-greatest-challenge-farage-has-ever-faced-convincing-the-world-he-was-never-besties-with-donald-trump-marina-hyde\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced \u2013 convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde\">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-69546","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\/69546","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=69546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}