You just have to believe that Theresa May loathes everything about Donald Trump. She needed American support in a post-Brexit referendum world, however, and she has undoubtedly read all those articles about how Margaret Thatcher managed her relations with the, shall we say, less intellectually astute Ronald Reagan, so she chose to suck it up for her country and provide overt support for the Trumpster. In some respects, it seemed to be working.
Unfortunately for her, it didn’t go over well with the British public. I suspect those pictures of her holding Trump’s hand inspired lots of young people to go out and vote Labour. Who could blame them? I probably would have done it, too.