It's clearly impossible under EU law for any member state to conduct trade negotiations with a third country, because all that is reserved to the Commission in Brussels, so the Labour Party's position is totally incoherent.

But I was also encouraged by what the First Minister said that, 

'I want to reassure...the United States that Wales remains an outward looking and welcoming country.'

Unfortunately, that laudable statement was also undermined by the shadow foreign secretary at Westminster, Emily Thornbury, who described Mr Trump as an asteroid of awfulness that has fallen on this world. She said, 

'I think that he is a danger and I think that he is a racist.'

I'm delighted that Welsh Labour's true face is on display today, agreeing with sentiments that can only do damage to the interests of the United Kingdom and the interests of the people of Wales. If the First Minister is serious about wanting to engage the Trump administration and investors from the United States in the possibilities and potential of our country here, then it pays generally in diplomacy to be nice to people rather than to insult and abuse them.