Nigel Farage is a recognizable figure in American politics because of Donald Trump. The Englishman, then the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, met the future president in 2016 at a Trump campaign rally in Mississippi, and they formed an immediate connection. Trump asked Farage to address the crowd, introducing him as “Mr. Brexit,” in honor of the critical role Farage played in that summer’s referendum in Britain on leaving the European Union.

Days later an article appeared in the New Yorker entitled “Trump Embraces Nigel Farage, His British Alter Ego.” That revealed something of their relationship, but Farage is intuitive and cunning, and grasped that Trump did not want an equal but a courtier. So he praised the way the presidential candidate had “dominated” Hillary Clinton in a debate and compared him to “a silverback gorilla.”

After Trump’s unexpected election victory, Farage was the first British politician to meet the president-elect, visiting him at Trump Tower in Manhattan and tweeting a photograph of himself and Trump grinning and laughing in front of a golden elevator.

Since then, Farage has steadily built up his profile in the U.S. He undertook a speaking tour in 2021 for the conservative activist group FreedomWorks, and has appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the last........

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