WASHINGTON – Donald Trump says Sir Keir Starmer ‘has not been helpful’ after failing to back his war with Iran and suggested the Special Relationship is in peril.
The US President said it is ‘very sad’ that relations between Britain and the United States are now ‘not like it used to be’.
Blaming Sir Keir directly, Trump said: ‘‘He has not been helpful. I never thought I’d see that. I never thought I’d see that from the UK. We love the UK. It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was.’’ He even suggested that the prime minister’s decision to ‘could be’ because he is pandering to Muslim voters as the Labour leader was accused of ‘pearl-clutching’ over US attacks on Iran.
Trump said that he ‘loves’ the UK and its people, but added it is ‘not such a recognisable country anymore’.
‘‘Stop people from coming in from foreign lands who hate you’’, he told the PM.
The US president’s criticism of Sir Keir came as the death toll of US service personnel hit six and Americans were urged to leave 15 countries across the Middle East.
Iran has attacked the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with kamikaze attack drones. Iranian State media has claimed that a command and staff building at a US air base in Bahrain has also been destroyed.
President Trump has said America’s military response to the avenge American deaths and damage to its embassy and Bahrain base is imminent, warning the ‘hardest hits’ are coming today.
Israel has also launched fresh strikes in Tehran and on Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
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