Boris Johnson’s long record of insults, gaffes

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson has been appointed as foreign secretary in the U.K.’s new post-Brexit government, headed by now-Prime Minister Theresa May.

He’s insulted everyone from the president of the United States to the people of Papua New Guinea.

Boris Johnson’s appointment as the United Kingdom’s foreign minister has brought gasps of shock in diplomatic circles at home and overseas – especially in Europe.

And those are Britain’s allies talking.

He was quoted as saying: “Boris Johnson is a crafty party politician who managed to use the euroskeptic mood for himself”.

Turkey was in a more forgiving mood after Johnson won a magazine prize for a limerick depicting Erdogan cavorting with a goat written to ridicule the Turkish leader’s efforts to have German courts punish a German satirist for insulting him. The former mayor of London, Johnson, had led the Brexit campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, BBC reported. The French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered an unusually blunt message to his new British counterpart Thursday. He lied a lot to the British.

Asked Thursday what he expected of working with Johnson, given such comments, Schaeuble said “we in Germany have had good experience with putting comments made during a campaign into the file for election campaigns, and forgetting them on the day after the democratic decision has been made”.

When it comes to U.S. Democrats and Republicans, Johnson seems an equal opportunity offender.

In 2007 he described Hillary Clinton’s appearance as “like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.

“Over 800 came to Boris Johnson’s first all staff meeting [at the] Foreign Office”.

Johnson was in 2004 ordered by Conservative Party leader Michael Howard to apologize to Liverpool, because he had accused the residents of the city of wallowing in “victim status” because of public grieving after a Liverpool resident was taken hostage and slain in Iraq.

But he has also called on the West to put aside its distaste for Putin and to cut a deal with him to destroy Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, something the Kremlin itself is keen to see happen.

He is part of a triumvirate of Brexit-backing new cabinet ministers, alongside Fox and Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary.

Some of the most senior members of European governments have rounded on Johnson for the tactics he deployed during the referendum campaign.

On the question of Britain’s future relations with the EU, Mr. Davis said the ideal and “most likely outcome” is continued free trade access to the single market. Animosity is widespread in Europe about Johnson, who recently compared the EU’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler.

Theresa May was to spend her first full day as prime minister fleshing out her government on Thursday, July 14, after taking office pledging a fresh start as Britain heads towards the European Union exit door.

The cheerful, extroverted Johnson has had some notable successes.

May became prime minister late Wednesday after David Cameron stepped down in the wake of the June 23 vote, which sent shockwaves around the world and sparked fears of an economic downturn as Britain potentially closes off its biggest market.

The treachery left Johnson down and out — for two weeks — until May lifted him up again.