President Donald Trump is proving himself as a "genuine world leader" with his reception in England and during other recent trips, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday.
"There is something pathetic about the American news media who end up in Japan or end up in Great Britain, end up in France," Gingrich told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "Half of them revert to asking questions though they're in Washington, D.C. The questions are trivial. Usually hostile to America. They undermine the president who luckily for the country is bigger than that."
And if one watches Trump in England, or in his recent trip to Japan, where he was the first foreign head of state to meet new Emperor Naruhito, he "emerges as a genuine world leader, despite every effort of the American news media to keep him small," said Gingrich.
Gingrich also said he thinks Trump was right when it comes to his comments about the Brexit agreement.
"They would have been much better off saying to the Europeans, you have 60 days to figure this out," said Gingrich. "The Europeans are deliberately making it as painful as possible, to send a signal to Italy, Greece, Hungary, Poland, this is what it is like to try to leave. They're terrified if the British have a successful departure, there will be four or five more countries waving goodbye in the near future."
Meanwhile, there have been protests in London against Trump, but Gingrich told the program that late President Ronald Reagan had "much greater" resistance in Europe than there has been to Trump.
"Reagan was very anti-communist, wanted to strengthen the western defenses," said Gingrich. "The Soviet Union financed the peace movement. This is one of those little secrets the left doesn't want to talk about."
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