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Michael Gove mocked for Donald Trump “thumbs up” photo

Thumbs up! I’ve just met Donald Trump!

Michael Gove’s lickspittle interview with the president-elect of the United States culminated in the pair posing for the camera, thumbs aloft, in front of a copy of Playboy magazine.

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Trump appears to prefer the thumbs up to a good old-fashioned handshake. Well, he DID say he was a germaphobe.

As if Gove – Brexiteer cheerleader and failed Tory leadership wannabe – wasn’t going to get enough abuse on Twitter anyway, the thumbs up picture sealed it.

 

https://twitter.com/AhirShah/status/820775540672131073

Unfortunately for Gove he didn’t get to pose like Nigel Farage with Trump in a gold lift. But was he aware of what was actually behind him? (Clue – it’s over Gove’s left shoulder).

Others said the pair looked eerily familiar.

As for the interview itself, it was a “stream of hot nonsense”, according to @SimonNRicketts who said he “talks like a teenager at the dinner table who’s texting at the same time”.

You can see what he means.

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https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/820755448198533121

But one person thought it was a great interview and had no complaints about the picture.

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