Trump hits out at Starmer over Iran: 'This is not Winston Churchill we're dealing with'

[highplainsdem]

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Source: Independent

Speaking at the White House, the US president unleashed another rant about the UK, claiming Sir Keir had been "very uncooperative" and had "ruined relationships" over Iran and the Chagos Islands.

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Appearing to refer to the Diego Garcia base in the Chagos Islands, Mr Trump added: "That island... It's taken three, four days, for us to work out where we can land there; it would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised."

"This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with," he added.

Mr Trump went on to express his disapproval at Britain's deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying the UK has "ruined relationships" over the "stupid island".

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-keir-starmer-iran-winston-churchill-b2931235.html

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Trump also called London mayor Sadiq Khan incompetent and claimed incorrectly that the UK has Sharia courts adjudicating law.

[Raven123]

1. Well Trump is no FDR. What's the point?

[hadEnuf]

10. I guess Trump thinks he's FDR today.

Or Stalin.

[dflprincess]

31. Probably Stalin

FDR asked Congress for declarations of war against Japan and Germany.

[ananda]

20. I'm amazed he knows he's not dealing with Churchill.

Starmer and his cohorts are doing just fine
by standing strong against Trump.

[wnylib]

22. Beat me to it.

[MacKasey]

33. He is Howdy Doodey, Putin's puppet!

[SheltieLover]

35. You beat me to it.

[SallyHemmings]

2. I'm shocked

He treats our Allies like crap, and they are supposed to just give him what he wants.

[PatSeg]

3. My god!

At this rate, he's going to run out of people to insult and offend. After all there are only 8 billion people on the planet.

“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re talking about”. Like he even knows anything about Winston Churchill.

[Nashchica]

11. Not to mention British people don't hold Churchill in high regard. nt

[PatSeg]

15. Good point

[iemanja]

19. Is that true?

That’s not my impression.

[wnylib]

25. It's true. Brits liked Churchill's inspiring rhetoric

during the war, but got rid of him as soon as the war was over. He was too conservative for them. He had also flubbed up several times in military positions that he held before the war. His main interest in WWII was preserving the empire. His domestic policies did not appeal to Brits.

[Cha]

30. Thanks... wonder who supplied PEDO

with that line? He doesn't know shit about history?

Too busy with Epstein business.

[dflprincess]

32. But they put the Conservatives back in power in 1951

and Churchill was prime minister again from1951-55.

[wnylib]

34. The 1950s were a swing to the right in the US, too.

Fascism had bern defeated and we focused on Communism as the Soviet Bloc became entrenched.

Today's Brits do not like Churchill.

[iemanja]

36. I was referring to how he is

Remembered historically, not when he was voted out of office.

[msongs]

4. info on sharia courts in britain....

https://legalpriority.co.uk/legal-advice/discover-how-many-sharia-law-courts-are-in-the-uk/

[livetohike]

5. Well Felon, you are no Barack Obama, Joe Biden

or Bill Clinton. You are a jagoff.

[Cha]

26. Yes! That's mostly what I said

down thread.

[patphil]

6. He's no Winston Churchill. That's pretty self evident.

Starmer doesn't smoke cigars, or at all for that matter, while Churchill seemed to always have one in his hand.
That makes telling them apart really easy. I wonder how long it took Trump to figure that out.

This may be the first thing Trump said in the past few months that's actually true.

[2naSalit]

7. Sounds like...

He didn't get what he wanted.

[Cha]

24. Whcih is ...

Yay!

[Deuxcents]

28. All these plans should have been arranged before the attack. No plans and no one knows what they're doing except

Screwing up royally. They’re shooting from the hip and have started a serious war and alienating our allies is idiotic. Spain says no and are not wanting retaliation from Iran nor does the UK. We’re in trouble deep

[Wonder Why]

8. If he was Winston Churchill, he would say the following about Krasnov

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.

So, unless you want another war, Krazy Krasnov, button your lip ad put your cellphone where the sun doesn't shine!

[Smilo]

9. And what would Churchill think.....

“Hitler trump is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder.”.
June 22, 1941, Churchill on Hitler’s attack invasion of Russia.

[hadEnuf]

12. It's clear that Trump is now several cans short of a 12 pack.

25th A time. Not that his asslickers in congress care.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. You've used the live news link, and the "no Churchill" story is about 4 pages down it now

Here's the link to what you've quoted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-keir-starmer-iran-winston-churchill-b2931235.html

Title "Trump hits out at Starmer over Iran: ‘This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with’"

It would be better to correct this in the OP, since this is LBN.

[highplainsdem]

17. Drat, they completely rewrote the story, too. What a mess. And no way to get everything I had before

in just 4 paragraphs of the new version. Sigh. Thanks for the heads-up, though. I'll try to patch a new excerpt plus comments together so the earlier replies here won't lose context.

[Bayard]

14. Still winning friends, and influencing enemies

No other country wants a part in enabling him in an illegal war, resulting in a quagmire. They don't need to lose their soldiers to trump and Bibi's egos.

[mdbl]

16. He's bound and determined to make the entire world hate us

Big orange asshole.

[iemanja]

18. And the child rapist is no FDR.

[Intractable]

21. Chuchill wouldn't kiss your ass like Starmer.

[Cha]

23. PEDO Fuck head is NO Joe Biden Or Barack

Obama.

[Johonny]

27. Gallipoli anyone?

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. And drumpf is no FDR.

Not by a longshot.

[SheltieLover]

37. Not even in the same universe with FDR!

[niyad]

38. There is one thing I wish he had in common with FDR.

[SheltieLover]

39. Decency

[niyad]

40. Not possible. I wish they were both "the late"

[SheltieLover]

41. Slob doesn't have a shred of decency.

[SheltieLover]

42. Oh. Lol

It just clicked. Yes!

[artemisia1]

43. Well, Trump, you shouldn't have started a war that resulted in our Naval base in Bahrain being taken out, thus

requiring our ships to make an extra 3-4 day trip to Diego Garcia to restock.

[Captain Zero]

44. and trump is no Eisenhower, by a long shot.

or, Maybe Trump should wade ashore from a destroyer in Iran, like McArthur did in the Philippines.