On one of the last foreign trips of his tenure, President Obama is aggressively trying to influence the politics of allies — including on matters that have little or nothing to do with the United States.

Many foreign leaders and commentators are not amused.

Among them is London Mayor Boris Johnson, a leader of the Brexit movement to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union. U.K. voters will decide that in a June 23 referendum. The U.S. is not a member of the EU and has no direct stake. Yet that has not stopped Obama from weighing in on the vote, even suggesting last week that exiting the EU would put Britain “at the back of the queue” in negotiating a trade deal with the United States.

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“It is absolutely ridiculous that the U.K. is now being told it has to go to the back of the queue for any free trade deal,” Johnson told reporters Monday. “For us to be bullied in this way — I don’t want to exaggerate — for people to say we are going to be unable to cope on our own is absolutely wrong.”

Johnson himself drew controversy recently when he suggested that Obama’s Kenyan heritage may have played a role in his decision to butt into an internal British matter. But he is not alone in his sentiment that the Obama should butt out.

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“The issue here is that he is spouting a line; he is saying he doesn’t think the U.K. should be an independent, sovereign democracy,” U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage recently told Sky News’ “Murnaghan Show.”

Farage accused Obama of guaranteeing his “financial future” by pushing Britain to stay in the EU.

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“He has done the bidding of the giant American corporates who want Britain to stay in the EU,” he said.

Even Obama’s use of the English word “queue” has aroused suspicion from some in Britain unaccustomed to hearing Americans use the word, according to the English news source Metro.

The Telegraph’s chief foreign correspondent, Colin Freeman, wrote Monday that “as a way to a treat a country that has been America’s staunchest ally in the messy 15 years of the War on Terror, it’s hardly gracious.”

British political activist and blogger Tim Montgomerie blasted Obama on Saturday, writing that “when it comes to self-reverence and sheer hauteur,” not even Donald Trump is a match.

“The polls show that Britain is split on the EU, so King Barack will come and help the nation resolve its indecision,” he wrote, citing a survey indicating that only 4 percent of Britons believe Obama’s primary motivating for keeping the EU intact is that he cares about Britain.

Indeed, Americans would likely not take it kindly if Cameron came to the United States and took a position on whether to normalize relations with Cuba. But it is not just Britain. Obama delivered a speech in Germany Monday urging the country to stay the course on absorbing refugees from war-torn Syria and on coordinating with the international community to confront ISIS.

“If we do not solve these problems, you start seeing those who would try to exploit those fears and frustrations and channel them in a destructive way,” he said.

Obama also gave another shout-out to the EU.

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“Perhaps you need an outsider, somebody who’s not a European, to remind you of the magnitude of what you’ve achieved,” he said, adding that the European Union “remains one of the greatest political and economic achievements of modern times.”

Obama’s praise of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in line with the fact, reported in this month’s issue of The Atlantic, that she is one of the few world leaders whom the president respects. His disdain for other world leaders was on display in the same article. He blamed France and Britain for the failure to bring stability after the toppling of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. He cast then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a braggart and said British Prime Minister David Cameron became “distracted by a range of other things.”

Obama’s European appearance comes on the heels of a chilly reception in the Middle East, where Obama tried to persuade America’s Arab allies to improve relations with Persian Iran. Majid Rafizadeh, president of the International American Council on the Middle East, wrote Monday in The Huffington Post that Obama “will continue with his appeasement policies” to protect his nuclear deal.