Gov. Mark Dayton's former driver built a career by dissing Trump on Twitter
Last November, Golden Valley native Brian Klaas sat in a London radio studio. On the other side of the room was Nigel Farage, the far-right, anti-immigration leader of Britain’s Independence Party.
Farage, best known to Americans as the first foreign politician to meet with Trump in the wake of the 2016 election, was bragging that he had made “quite a pile” of cash betting the election would go in Trump’s favor.
Klaas, the only American in the room, remembers thinking how he wasn’t so proud, nor was he about to congratulate Farage on his earnings. At the time, Klaas’ phone was blowing up with texts from friends in Minneapolis. One feared her newborn’s name would sound too ethnic in an America where Trump was president. “It was the most raw I had been in an interview.”
Klaas usually argues with the fervor of a nerdy high school debater (he was on the debate team at Hopkins High School). His mom, Barbara, is a former president of the Minnesota School Board Association. But in that moment, as Farage celebrated his profits, Klaas took offense. “I had never been more embarrassed to be American in my life,” he recalled saying on the radio program.
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