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The European Commission president extraordinarily claimed he would push for Ohio and Texas to split from the rest of the America in revenge for Donald Trump’s supportive comments on Brexit. However, to the embarrassment of Mr Jucker, the LBC caller, named Nicholas, laughed off the threat as he argued nobody in the US “even knows who he is”. Speaking to Farage on his nightly radio phone-in, Nicholas quipped: “First off, nobody knows who he is in the United States, he has no influence what so ever, if people knew his name they’d call him ‘Junker’ not ‘Juncker’.”

LBC•GETTY A Texan radio caller fought back at Jean-Claude Juncker's remarks

First off, nobody knows who he is in the United States Nicholas, Texan radio caller

At a conference in Malta on Thursday, Mr Juncker hit back at the US President’s repeated support for the UK’s historic vote to leave the EU. He told delegates from his pan-EU Christmas Democrat group: “The newly elected US president was happy that Brexit was taking place and was asking other countries to do the same. “If he goes on like that, I’m going to promote the independence of Ohio and the exit of Texas.”

GETTY Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to campaign to try and split the US

Texas has long been associated with autonomous, having declared itself the independent Republic of Texas in 1836. However, Nicholas told a chuckling Farage even with Mr Juncker’s intervention, they’d be no chance of Texas splitting from the rest of America anytime soon. He continued: “We’re all having a laugh here in Austin Texas because Texas is a liberal hotspot, but they’re all surrounded by the most conservative, most proud Texans there are around. “So the greater Austin area is filled with proud Texans, seventh generation Texans who fought in the war of independence, so it’s a big joke, really funny, but there’s no way it could happen.”

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