Hours after Sir Keir Starmer’s emotional resignation announcement in Downing Street, US President Donald Trump could not resist the opportunity to take one more pop at a British leader he again described as “not Winston Churchill”.
The presidential stealth attack took place in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, with Trump initially describing Starmer as “a lovely man” and “sort of a friend of mine” – before quickly segueing into another dig at the Prime Minister for delaying American access to airbases in the UK at the beginning of the US and Israeli war on Iran.
“Starmer said ‘no’,” the President claimed. “Starmer said worse than no. He said ‘we’ll be there as soon as you win’ … Starmer wasn’t there. And you know what? The people of the UK did not like it that he wasn’t there.
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“That was a bad move that hurt him badly.”
