“Trump let May have it. Her soft Brexit, her plans for a deal with Europe that would keep the British economy from being severely punished by European tariffs, are unacceptable to Trump and his circle. Their mouths had been watering at the thought of being able to go into Britain without all those pesky EU regulations and to wring profits out of its economy by firing workers (“downsizing”), or by razing environmental regulations so as to profit from poisoning the earth, or by buying up thriving firms and selling off their parts at a profit, destroying them but making a huge killing. If May does soft Brexit, the EU regulations interfering with Barracuda Capitalism will still be in place and Trump and his buddies won’t be able to prey on the UK in the same way.”