Trump: Brexit Will Start a Wave Where Countries 'Take Their Borders Back'

"And I think it's happening in the United States."

6.24.2016

GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump believes that Britain's vote to exit the European Union reflects similar sentiments on independence and patriotism here in the U.S.

Speaking from his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland on Friday, Trump said, "people want to take their country back, and they want to have independence in a sense, and you see it with Europe, all over Europe."

"You're going to have, I think many other cases, where they want to take their borders back, they want to take their monetary back, they want to take a lot of things back. They want to be able to have a country again. So I think you're going to have this happen more and more. I really believe that. And I think it's happening in the United States."

Asked how a Trump administration would handle its relations with Britain following the E.U. exit, Trump said, "you just have to embrace it...it's not a question of approaching it, it's the will of the people. It's always the will of the people, ultimately, that wins out."

Trump also responded to President Obama's threat that if Britain did in fact exit the E.U., the nation would have to "go to the back of the line" with regard to U.S.-relations.

"Well, President Obama did say, I guess, that they (U.K.) should move to the back of the line. That wouldn't happen with me. The U.K.'s been such a great ally for so long, they'll always be at the front of the line."

While leftists are threatening impending economic doom over the Brexit vote, Trump believes the U.K. will ultimately grow stronger for it.

It is also worth noting that those who overwhelmingly voted in favor of Britain exiting are those old enough to remember what Britain was like prior to the formation, and Britain's inclusion, in the E.U.

Exit polls reveals that the majority of those who voted "Leave" comprise the over-50 age bracket, while the majority of those who voted "Remain" comprise millenials.

Meanwhile, the BBC published an article earlier this week positing that a successful vote to exit the E.U. could also signal that Trump will indeed win the presidency in the U.S.

Indeed, the Brexit vote illustrates a turn in the political tide among Westerners who are tired of globailst-bureaucrats dictating policy on both trade and financial issues as well as on the critical topic of immigration and border security.

Media Research Center provides the video above.