US President-elect Donald Trump is contemplating a billionaire Wall Road personal fairness investor who additionally owns the New York Jets as his decide for his UK ambassador.
Woody Johnson, who's value $three.5billion, donated greater than $170,000 to Trump's election marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Committee.
The inheritor to the Johnson & Johnson prescription drugs fortune heightened hypothesis he was within the working for the job when he was noticed at Monday night time's Jets recreation with Mike Pence.
Historically, many US ambassador posts go to political appointees. They're additionally given to figures who helped the president get elected or donated to their marketing campaign.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, left, was noticed at a New York Jets recreation on Monday night time sitting subsequent to the workforce's proprietor Woody Johnson, amid claims the billionaire was being lined up for an essential job within the new administration comparable to US ambassador to the UK
Donald Trump, second left, and Woody Johnson, second proper, have been pals for greater than 30 years with their kids having attended the identical colleges; they're pictured with their wives at Johnson's 60th party
Johnson's great-grandfather based Johnson & Johnson, and the 69-year-old businessman is a long-term buddy of Trump's - though he initially backed Jeb Bush throughout the Republican nomination course of.
Within the UK Home of Commons, Labour MP John Mann made a tongue-in-cheek proposal for Bruce Springsteen to be appointed the US ambassador to London, after Trump known as for Nigel Farage to be the UK's man in Washington.
Mann submitted an Early Day Movement in Parliament claiming the Born within the USA singer would assist with UK-US relations.
He wrote: 'That this Home recognises the significance of town of Youngstown in Ohio to the US.
'(It) notes that Bruce Springsteen not too long ago obtained the US's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
'(It) believes that Bruce Springsteen has written and carried out lots of the anthems of America and would welcome Bruce Springsteen as the following US Ambassador to the UK.'
Johnson, pictured final night time with Pence, is a member of Trump's inauguration committee
Present US ambassador Matthew Barzun, pictured with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, is predicted to lose his job subsequent month due to his shut ties with the Obama administration
Matthew Barzun has been the US ambassador to the UK since 2013. He was extremely influential in Barack Obama's election campaigns, serving to to elicit the assist of small donors.
Nonetheless, Republicans have been essential of Ambassador Barzun, due to his shut ties with the Obama administration, so he's virtually sure to lose his job within the New Yr.
The plum job of US ambassador to London is often given as a reward by the President to somebody who has helped together with his election marketing campaign.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence was noticed final night time with Johnson at a Jets recreation, growing hypothesis that he's being lined up for a job within the new administration.
Johnson was a vice chair on Donald Trump's victory committee and certainly one of his chief monetary backers throughout the election marketing campaign and is predicted to be rewarded for his loyalty
Nonetheless, Johnson felt Trump's wrath on Twitter whereas he was nonetheless backing Jeb Bush
Cameras captured the Vice President-elect and Johnson sitting subsequent to one another on the Jets recreation in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts in New Jersey on Monday night time.
The pair have been seated in Johnson's luxurious suite at MetLife Stadium.
Johnson, 69, has been a longtime Republican donor and an enormous supporter of Donald Trump.
Johnson additionally sits on the committee organizing Trump's inauguration.
Mr Trump mentioned: 'Woody will assist me. He is a terrific man, he is been a buddy of mine a very long time.'
Trump and Johnson's kids went to high school collectively and the lads have identified one another for 30 years.
He was a vice chair on Trump's victory committee, after earlier serving as finance chair for Jeb Bush's presidential marketing campaign.
On June 26, Johnson donated $100,000 to the Trump Victory marketing campaign. Federal data present on the identical day he gave $72,200 to Trump Pence and the Republican Nationwide Committee
Johnson has been married twice, first to Nancy Sale between 1977 and 1991 after they divorced. He then married Suzanne Ircha in 2009.
Trump precipitated diplomatic controversy in Downing Road when he met with former UKIP chief Nigel Farage hours after successful the nomination.
Trump claimed Farage would make a 'nice' ambassador to the USA, nonetheless, Prime Minister Theresa Could mentioned there was no emptiness.
Farage supplied to behave as an emissary between Trump and Downing Road, inflicting extra issues for the Prime Minster.
Mr Farage mentioned: 'I am comfortable to assist, formally or informally. I am comfortable simply to make an introduction. However I simply assume it is ridiculous, petty and probably in opposition to the nationwide curiosity for our Authorities not even to ring me as much as have a chat with me, not to mention ask me to make some introductions.
'It is not simply Trump, there are fairly a couple of members of Trump's workforce, folks now taking fairly senior positions, that I've identified and received on with for years.'
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