Aside from hair and body mass, however, they have nothing in common. Though born into a wealthy family, Trump was and remains a social outsider, sneered at by Manhattan’s Upper East Side. (snip) Johnson was already a member of Britain’s social and political elite before he even got to Oxford.Even if I grant you all of the above differences, the similarities are still sizable. Both men are showmen, eager to be a public spectacle. Both are given to hyperbole, even if hyperbole looks somewhat different in British versus American English. Both are patriots, openly in love with their respective nations.
Trump was early to see the huge political potential of social media, joining Twitter in 2009. He has 61.4 million followers. Johnson was late to the game, joining in 2015. He has 613,900 followers, exactly 1 percent of Trump’s total.
Both men are given to gaffes, and equally quick to shrug them off. And both are much married, have several children each, and have also enjoyed the company of women not their wives. Neither is especially shy or apologetic about finding women attractive.
Maybe those are not all the similarities Ferguson would like to see. But as Brits would say about the points I've made, it seems to me like enough to be getting on with.
