Boris Johnson says he knew Trump was "cruising to victory" once he saw him "driving the garbage truck"

Donald Trump was "absolutely cruising to victory," after driving a garbage truck, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Fortune Global Forum.

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00:00Nobody knew. Not even the brilliant brains assembled here. With all your uncanny ability

00:07to peer into the future and see market trends and know where you did not know. And that's

00:14just a wonderful thing because there are plenty of countries which are called democracies

00:19in the world where they have things called elections where they sure as hell do know

00:23who's going to be elected. But here in this amazing country nobody really knew. And so

00:30I think a week out when he was driving the garbage truck, honestly when he was driving

00:34the garbage truck I thought he was absolutely cruising to victory. I thought that was fantastic.

00:41I thought he was unstoppable. Then mysteriously it all kind of went, it lost momentum. I don't

00:47know whether you agree but it seemed to go a bit mouldy. And so I was, on the day I couldn't

00:53have told you.