--- title: Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit' description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump called himself Mr. Brexit on Twitter Thursday canonical: https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-18T13:16:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:03:53.002Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit' og:description: He recently hired a marketing firm also used by Brexit supporters og:url: https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553b21d46f93cc1a/6988a2c597cdffd2776ad7b8/donald-trump-brexit.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: donald trump brexit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit' twitter:description: He recently hired a marketing firm also used by Brexit supporters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553b21d46f93cc1a/6988a2c597cdffd2776ad7b8/donald-trump-brexit.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit'  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Aug 18, 2016 1:16 PM UTC  Donald Trump, 2016 GOP presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, on Aug. 15. Donald Trump, 2016 GOP presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, on Aug. 15.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Aug 18, 2016 1:16 PM UTC GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump [called himself](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/766246213079498752) Mr. Brexit on Twitter Thursday, which some took as a suggestion that he will defy the polls just like the unexpected success of the “Brexit” referendum earlier this year. Trump—who supported Brexit after the U.K. voted in favor of it—trails his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by an of 6 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics [collection](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general%5Felection%5Ftrump%5Fvs%5Fclinton-5491.html) of recent polls. He is also down in polls of most swing states. British voters also defied expectations in a referendum earlier this over whether to leave the European Union. That move was approved 52% to 48% despite expectations that the country would stay. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/766246213079498752) Trump’s campaign recently [hired](http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-campaign-brexit-move/) Cambridge Analytica, a marketing firm that worked with the Brexit campaign, to aid his ailing campaign. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit'","datePublished":"2016-08-18T13:16:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:03:53.002Z","description":"He recently hired a marketing firm also used by Brexit supporters","url":"https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553b21d46f93cc1a/6988a2c597cdffd2776ad7b8/donald-trump-brexit.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553b21d46f93cc1a/6988a2c597cdffd2776ad7b8/donald-trump-brexit.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald trump brexit","caption":"donald trump brexit","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4457246/donald-trump-brexit-tweet/","name":"Donald Trump Calls Himself 'Mr Brexit'"}}]}] ```