Мэр Лондона назвал Обаму "кенийским президентом" и послал, его учить "жену щи варить"

A dispute over the United Kingdom's future reached a fever pitch Friday, as London's mayorwrote an op-ed in a popular British newspaper to blast US President Barack Obama for imploring the UK to remain in the European Union.

Johnson cited the supposed removal of a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office as apparent proof that Obama is anti-Britain. Johnson claimed in his column that the bust was sent to the British embassy in Washington, DC.

"Some said it was a snub to Britain," Johnson wrote in the Sun newspaper. "Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British empire — of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender."

In 2012, the White House dispelled the rumor of the Churchill bust and noted that it remains in the White House. John McDonnell, the opposition Labour Party's finance policy chief, called Johnson's remarks "dog-whistle racism."

For his part, Obama pointed out that the Churchill bust was relocated to his residence in the White House and noted that there was a different bust he wanted to see in the Oval Office.

"I thought ... as the first African-American President, it might be appropriate to have a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King in my office, to remind me of all the hard work of a lot of people, who would somehow allow me to have the privilege of holding this office," Obama said at a press conference on Friday when he was asked about Johnson's comments.