Mr Farage made the claim in a 2016 interview in the aftermath of President Trump’s election victory, boasting that he was “the catalyst” for the political shift in Washington and beyond. He also claimed that he had helped down Tony Blair, the Clintons and George W. Bush. He told TalkRadio: “I’m the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich, and ruined our countries, I couldn’t be happier.”

He also hit out at Trump’s predecessor –Barack Obama, – claiming that he hadn’t been friendly to the UK.

He added: “That Obama creature – loathsome individual – he couldn’t stand our country. He said we’d be at the back of the queue, didn’t he?”

“What was interesting was that Trump said we’d be at the front of the queue.

“However imperfect Donald Trump may be, and my goodness he is, his mother was Scottish, he owns Turnberry, he spends a lot of time in our country, he loves our country, what we stand for and our culture.”

The former Ukip leader also used Trump’s victory to hit out at Boris Johnson.

When Trump entered the White House, he only called then Prime Minister Theresa May after speaking to 10 other world leaders, despite the frequently lauded “special relationship” between London and Washington.

Mr Farage blamed the former London Mayor for this, citing scathing comments he had made about the American billionaire during his time in the role.

Four months before the US President had claimed his shock election win, Mr Johnson had aimed to distance his advocacy for Brexit from Mr Trump’s “isolationist” foreign policy.

Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Mr Johnson was asked whether the UK’s withdrawal from the EU had any similarities with “American nationalism”.

He replied: “I would draw a very, very strong contrast between Brexit and any kind of isolationism.

The MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip added: “Brexit means us being more outward looking, more engaged, more energetic, more enthusiastic on the world stage than ever before.”

Farage said that Mr Johnson’s rudeness about President Trump was to blame for the UK’s fading relations with the US.

He said that “you have to face the facts that there are some very senior members of this administration who have said some very rude things about him.”

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Mr Johnson has clashed with the White House chief on a number of occasions.

In 2015, after Mr Trump proposed a Muslim ban during his efforts to become President, the then London Mayor accused the then Republican Party candidate of “stupefying ignorance”.

He said: “Donald Trump’s ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense.

“What he’s doing is playing the game of the terrorists and those who seek to divide us, and I have to say, when Trump says that there are ‘no-go’ areas in London, he’s betraying stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit for the office of the presidency.

“I would like to invite him to come to see the whole of London and take him around the city, except I wouldn’t want to expose any Londoners to the unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

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