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Let's call bullying Donald Trump what he really is – an enemy of Britain.

The deranged US liar-in-chief has set himself up as a puppeteer to ­manipulate our country.

The America First nationalist who treats our country as a second-rate colony is no friend of this island nation.

An ally flying from across the Atlantic wouldn’t try to dictate who is Prime Minister.

A friend arriving from across the Atlantic wouldn’t try to dictate the really special relationship with the rest of Europe.

And a friend landing from across the Atlantic wouldn’t try to get his dirty, money-grabbing tiny mitts on our National Health Service.

In promoting charlatan Boris Johnson and hoaxer Nigel Farage while his London ambassador demands the NHS as a prize in any trade deal, Trump has unmasked himself as a foe.

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The Queen would be wise to sup with a long spoon when forced to host creepy Trump and his freeloading clan at tonight’s ­Buckingham Palace state banquet.

Inhabiting his make-believe weird world, Trump fibs he’s loved in Britain – a notion destroyed by the absence of the ­traditional horse-drawn gilded coach ride along the Mall.

No band could play louder than the boos of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of ­thousands, demonstrating against a rogue who pollsters say we dislike by three to one.

Trump’s trumpeting of ­Johnson is no surprise when the tyrannical President hates decent politicians and showers praise on the world’s most unsavoury, from Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman to Jair Bolsonaro, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Rodrigo Duterte.

The congenital liar and serial liar are natural ­bedfellows.

Trump mini-me Johnson is happy to cuddle for a pat on the head from an orange man-baby he once labelled “out of his mind”, whose “stupefing ignorance” meant he was “unfit” to be President.

John McDonnell, one of Labour’s sharpest strategists, is reminded of TV’s Spitting Image in the 1980s by the Tory leadership charade.

“These modern-day Spitting Image characters are stuck trotting out the same old Thatcherite answers in 2019,” mused McDonnell.

Let Trump pull the strings and we’ll be the losers.