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Fox News completely lost the plot over Barack Obama, the Queen, Nigel Farage and Brexit

Fox News completely lost the plot over Barack Obama, the Queen, Nigel Farage and Brexit

Barack Obama's speech on Britain's membership of the EU dominated the headlines on Saturday morning.

On the first day of his visit to London on Friday, the US president suggested the UK would go to the "back of the queue" in terms of international relations if it votes to leave the EU in the June referendum.

His comments have sparked a wave of backlash from Leave supporters, including London mayor Boris Johnson who came under fire for referring to Obama as America's "part-Kenyan" president.

But it's not just Brexiteers that have positively lost their s--t over Obama's intervention - on the other side of the Atlantic Fox News lost theirs too.

Speaking on the Varney & Co. show on Friday, conservative political commentator Tammy Bruce reacted furiously as images of POTUS meeting the Queen flashed up on screen:

There he is, stepping right on in there. The patronising nature of this is remarkable.

After several nods of agreement over how supposedly arrogant Obama is, the Fox News team turned to [insert sarcastic tone here] the only real voice of reason on the Brexit debate...

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said Obama's speech was a "monstrous interference" and would prefer it if the president had stayed in Washington.

But while all this debate rages, it's interesting to note this ComRes poll which shows not that many people in the UK really care what Obama thinks anyway:

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