One of Hillary Clinton’s most often-repeated slams at her opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump, is that he allegedly would be a disaster for U.S. relations with other world powers. Trump, his critics insist, is not liked or trusted by many U.S. allies and the people in those countries.

That campaign claim may have to go in the trash after the June 24 vote by people in the United Kingdom to pull their nation out of the European Union.

Clinton and her biggest supporter, President Barack Obama, once implied they had the U.K. in their pockets. And there seemed to be a grain of truth to that. British Prime Minister David Cameron is an unabashed supporter of Obama and seems to like Clinton, too.

But Cameron had been a firm proponent of continued U.K. membership in the European Union. After voters pulled the rug out from under him on that, he announced he would resign.

It is entirely possible the next prime minister will be someone like former London Mayor Boris Johnson – who doesn’t like Obama at all.

Obama and Clinton had lobbied for the U.K. to stay put in the union. The president went as far as to warn leaving the union would be harmful to U.K. relations with this country.

That won neither Democrat any friends among the majority of U.K. voters who supported leaving the union.

Trump, meanwhile, had supported disunion. After voters approved it, he praised them – while very diplomatically refusing to criticize Cameron.

Trump, in other words, may be able to lay claim to a better working relationship than Clinton with the people of the U.K. and their leaders. Thanks to voters in what may be the most important, loyal ally the United States has ever had, our presidential election suddenly has taken on a very different appearance.