....Trump has been weighing in on Brexit since March, with a clearly established position: The EU is bad for Britain because it encourages migration. The Hollywood Reporter interview is being interpreted as Trump not actually knowing about the Brexit vote, which is wrong.
That being said, it's still striking that he doesn't know the Brexit portmanteau. It's used in basically all the coverage of the issue, which indicates that Trump hasn't really been following the issue in the press or reading about it. It's not that he doesn't know that the British vote is happening; it's that he doesn't care to learn anything about it. Instead, Trump is going with his gut instinct — which is that immigrants are bad and the UK should do whatever it can to shut itself off from them.
This is how Trump does foreign policy thinking more generally. He doesn't really have a cogent ideology or anything like formal knowledge, just a series of impulses (like that immigrants are bad) that he applies blindly to whatever the issue at stake is. He's said that on foreign policy, "my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff." That, and not ignorance of the fact of the British vote itself, is what's on display here.
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11828694/trump-brexit-what
the above analysis aside, he STILL had no apparent idea that Scotland voted heavily against Brexit
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