“This is not Winston Churchill, that I can tell you,” Trump said of Starmer as he hammered the exiting PM over immigration, “windmills” and not being there when he needed him in Iran. The Mail has more.
President Donald Trump named the “two things” he believed tanked the tenure of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, while also hammering him over the Iran war.
Trump responded to Starmer’s teary exit on Monday during an executive order signing session in the Oval Office.
“This is not Winston Churchill, that I can tell you,” the President said of the exiting British leader.
Starmer resigned after serving in the role for just under two years, as the Labour Party lost elections last month in Wales and Scotland, and he was weighed down by an Epstein-related scandal.
He’s the fourth British Prime Minister to exit in four years.
When first asked about Starmer’s resignation, Trump identified an unconventional culprit.
Windmills.
Trump first said Starmer was a “lovely man” and “sort of a friend of mine” but added that he told him, “you’re really messing up energy”.
“You have windmills all over the place,” the President explained. “In the meantime, you have the North Sea oil and they won’t let anybody drill.”
Trump then complained how Starmer was “not good to us with NATO”, suggesting that it hurt the Prime Minister politically.
“I mean, I wish him well, but he’s got two problems – energy and immigration. And crime. But energy and immigration,” Trump said.
The President moved on to another topic, but came back to Starmer again when asked about his scheduled meeting this week with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
That prompted his “Churchill” quip and a brief rant about how NATO members refused to help him after the US and Israel started a joint operation against Iran in late February.
“Starmer said worse than no,” Trump recalled. “He said, we’ll be there as soon as you win. I said, ‘We don’t need you as soon as we win.'”
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He/she is a nice.
Kiss of death on a reference!
Pissing off the leader of the free world and of the country we most rely upon to defend us when our armed forces are so depleted was one of THE most stupid things Starmer ever did
I think Trump was remarkably magnanimous …. considering the Prime Liar’s desperate attempt to give away one of the USA’s most important military bases to an ally of an enemy (based on lies) …. and then to refuse him permission to use the base when it was required.
President Trump wants to prevent the west from being vaporised by nihilists so Starmer withheld meaningful support, mocked him and then expected to be the president’s trusted ally. I don’t know what kind of stupidity you’d call that. As diplomacy goes, execrable is the word that comes to mind.
Looks like Starmer at least beat President Trump at ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. Something positive to remember him for because there is bugger all else.
Interesting comparison. Churchill made some catastrophic blunders and his political career all but washed up, but was made of sterner stuff and came back.
Starmer promised to fight his corner, but caved in. Instead of standing for “his” politics (which still nobody knows), he’ll seek the sanctuary of the kind of life afforded by charities to retired donkeys. He’ll be largely forgotten, except as a worthless DPP.
I think we’ll remember his time as PM too – we remember Mrs Thatcher as the lady not for turning, Starmer was the man for spinning (in all senses of the word).
I think we should also remember all his spineless MPs who deserted him in his hour of need to back Prince Andrew when, were it not for his work to make people able to vote Labour without throwing up, they would not be MPs.
Uptick for the donkey analogy. Perfectly hits the mark! 🙂