"The view of the European Union and certainly the Obama administration is to try to provoke Putin at every possible opportunity… What Trump will do, you know what, he’ll get on an aeroplane and go and talk to him," Farage told RT.
He also claimed that Trump, is "not a military interventionist," and blamed the current crisis in the Middle East on "liberal" politics and intervention in Libya, which provided "a great big gap for" for Daesh.
The interim UKIP leader defended Trump’s controversial pledges and statements made during the presidential campaign, adding that "he might have offended a few people, but since he’s been president-elect he’s speaking to the nation saying we must all come together."
On November 8, Trump managed to defeat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the US presidential elections, securing 290 electoral votes. Trump's inauguration will be held on January 20, 2017.
