Speaking to reporters in London on Monday evening after a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Bolton laid into the European body, insisting that Brexit – Britain’s decision to leave the EU – be honored.

“The fashion in the European Union is when the people vote the wrong way from the way the elites want to go, is to make the peasants vote again and again until they get it right,” Bolton said.

Soon after 2016’s Brexit vote, many ‘Remain’ advocates in the UK and elsewhere began pushing for a second referendum, hoping to reverse the results of the first. Bolton, who’s always been a Brexit enthusiast echoed the sentiment of some British lawmakers and commentators, as well as many Brexiteers, who say a Brexit do-over would be undemocratic.

“There was a vote – everyone knew what the issues were,” Bolton continued. “It is hard to imagine that anyone in this country did not know what was at stake.”

The result is the way it was. That’s democracy.

Though some on the ‘Leave’ side hailed Bolton’s comments, many online found his “peasants” comparison offensive and rejected American interference in what is surely a European affair.

“John Bolton calling us peasants!!!!! Do we want the UK to be sold to the US? When Trump speaks of Europeans like this. Anger just does not cover it. I am fuming. UK wake up!!!!”tweeted an enraged Remainer, while one Briton remarked that “if anyone treats their people like peasants, it's the Trump administration.”

Another commenter from the American side of the pond responded by observing: “Unlike here in the USA where the Dems just keep 'finding' ballots until they reach the desired result.”