Trump tempers criticism of UK’s Chagos Islands deal after talk with Starmer

Despite calling it earlier an ‘act of great stupidity’, Trump signals support of Starmer’s Chagos deal.

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United States President Donald Trump appears to have endorsed the deal struck by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to hand over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, weeks after calling it a “great stupidity”.

Trump had last month described the United Kingdom’s decision to cede sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which includes a joint US-UK military base on the island of Diego Garcia, as an “act of great stupidity”.