In an odd turn of events, Piers Morgan is indirectly defending presidential candidate Donald Trump after the British Parliament debated banning the poll-leading celebrity candidate on Monday.
Morgan was shocked that the Parliament allocated three hours to discuss Trump rather than “debating terrorism, famine, nuclear weapons, the Middle East refugee crisis or the Syrian War.”
In an opinion column, Morgan wrote that he thought it was “utterly absurd” to think that the government would ban a man from entering the UK for speaking his opinion, despite how “dangerously wrong and bigoted” he feels that opinion is.
“Like many, I didn’t agree with what Trump said and indeed, I wrote him an open letter at the time saying it was ‘dangerously wrong and bigoted’.
“But to ban a foreign politician for expressing an opinion is utterly absurd. Particularly a foreign politician who stands an increasingly good chance of becoming leader of the world’s biggest superpower and Britain’s supposedly closest, most powerful ally.”
He calls the Parliament out for the glaring hypocrisy of a Britain that would ban a man with an unpopular opinion from entering the country while “throwing down the red carpet and blares out the royal bugles all the time for leaders of countries with heinous human rights records.”
He references three examples of such a leader:
“King Salman of Saudia Arabia can allow 50 people to be beheaded last month and nobody in the corridors of British officialdom batted a public eyelid. Yet he is treated like some kind of deity when he arrives in Britain in his fleet of gold-plated jets.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin commits and spouts all manner of despicable, murderous, bigoted things and Britain welcomes him with State dinners at Buckingham Palace and handshakes outside Downing Street.
“As for Chinese President Xi Jinping, there is barely enough room in my expansive sick bucket to cope with my involuntary spewing at all the sycophantic grovelling that goes on when he swings into my home country.”
He also draws blood in a scathing remark on how the Parliament doesn’t think to ban murderous ISIS fighters from returning to the country but are all too willing to ban and a single man because he simply said something they didn’t like on a national platform.
“Right now, there are believed to be hundreds of British Muslims who’ve left UK shores to fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
“None of them has been banned from returning.
“Yet the UK Parliament appears more concerned with keeping out a billionaire real estate tycoon with a propensity for saying outrageous things but no track record, so as far as I’m aware, of murdering people.”
Morgan isn't alone in feeling embarrassment; plenty of people have taken to Twitter to voice their agreement with what he wrote.