Trump's oily and obnoxious personality sorely tests British diplomacy

The contradictory US president’s inclination is to side with those who want to break up the EUDonald Trump’s Jekyll and Hyde performance on the opening leg of his European tour – one minute angrily wielding a wrecking ball and the next playing the oleaginous anglophile – will hardly leave European diplomats, especially those in Britain, reassured as they brace themselves for his bilateral summit with Vladimir Putin on Monday.It is this meeting – the two men have met