Donald Trump tells Keir Starmer the US ‘doesn’t need British aircraft carriers for war we’ve already won’ in extraordinary attack on Prime Minister

Donald Trump tells Sir Keir Starmer that the US does not need Britain to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

The US President accused Britain of ‘finally thinking seriously’ but appeared to turn down the offer in an extraordinary attack on the Prime Minister.

“It’s okay, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them anymore,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. ‘We don’t need people joining wars after winning!’

The president’s fiery op-ed came after it was revealed that Britain was preparing to deploy HMS Prince of Wales to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran intensified and criticism of Britain’s military response grew.

Earlier this week, Trump declared he was ‘dissatisfied’ with the Prime Minister and accused him of being ‘very, very reluctant’.

In an apparent reference to Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, the US President said: ‘That island… It took us three, four days to figure out where we could land there.

‘It would have been much easier to land there rather than flying for extra hours, so we were very surprised.’

Referring to Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, who has a bust in the Oval Office, Trump added: ‘This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with.’

The president’s fiery post comes after it was revealed the UK is preparing to deploy HMS Prince of Wales (pictured) to the Middle East

The US President continued to criticize Britain’s approach to the ‘stupid island’ in a fresh lashing out at Sir Keir’s proposal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

‘This is not the age of Churchill. “I will say that Britain was very, very uncooperative towards that stupid island that they had, they gave it away and they got a 100-year lease,” he told reporters while sitting next to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office.

‘Perhaps it has to do with the local people who have never seen the island before, claiming it. What’s all this about? ‘They destroy relationships, it’s a shame.’

HMS Prince of Wales is currently moored in Portsmouth and undergoing repairs and maintenance.

The £3 billion warship carries F-35 warplanes and will be deployed alongside other ships and a submarine if sent to the region.

On Thursday Sir Keir called on Mr Trump to ‘stand down’ on the crisis and negotiate with what remains of Iran’s leadership. But the Prime Minister admitted that despite the global crisis, he had not spoken to the US President for almost a week following their spectacular falling out.

Sir Keir has faced a growing chorus of criticism from allies in the Middle East over a lack of preparedness that led Cyprus to seek military support from France, Italy and Spain rather than Britain after an RAF base on the island was hit by an Iranian drone.

The Prime Minister has suggested the effects of the conflict could last for months, with potentially huge impacts on energy bills and living costs, and the possibility of a new refugee crisis.

He acknowledged that relatives of the tens of thousands of British citizens trapped in the war zone were ‘worried sick’ but said a mass evacuation ‘is not going to happen overnight’.

He added: ‘I want you to know that your government is determined in our response at home and abroad.

‘We will do everything we can to protect British lives, promote British values ​​and protect the national interest.’

Sir Keir did not deny reports from the start that suggested he wanted to allow US jets to fly ‘defensive’ missions from British bases, but was blocked by Ed Miliband and other senior ministers who questioned whether having a positive relationship with the US was ‘a good thing for Labor right now’.

Asked whether Mr Miliband was now responsible for foreign policy, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: ‘As you would expect, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, along with key members of the Cabinet, have been key players in decision-making on this matter.’

On Thursday night, Trump told the New York Post: ‘It’s very disappointing; His performance was about our massive attack against a hostile country.

‘I’m very surprised Keir. ‘I’m very disappointed.’

In a newspaper interview earlier on Tuesday, the US President said Sir Keir was ‘unhelpful’ and was endangering the special relationship by not supporting his war with Iran.

Mr Trump said it was ‘very sad’ that relations between Britain and America ‘are no longer the same’.

Blaming Sir Keir directly, Mr Trump said: ‘He was no help. I never thought I’d see this.

‘I never thought I’d see this from England. We love England. It’s very sad to see that the relationship is clearly not what it used to be.

‘This was the strongest relationship between them. We now have very strong relations with other countries in Europe.

‘It doesn’t matter but (Sir Keir) should have helped… he should have. I mean, France was great. It was all great. ‘The UK was very different from the others.’

He even suggested that the Prime Minister’s decision ‘could happen’ because the Labor Party leader was pandering to Muslim voters as the US was accused of ‘clutching pearls’ over the Iran attacks that eliminated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mr Trump said he ‘loved’ Britain and its people but added that it was ‘not that well-known country’ anymore.

“Prevent people who hate you from coming from foreign countries,” he told the Prime Minister.

Trump’s broadside is straining US-UK relations and is likely to provide further ammunition to many critics who accuse Sir Keir of damaging Britain’s standing on the global stage.

The US President also reiterated his frequent criticism of immigration and energy policies in the UK, saying: ‘I love that country, my mother was born there. But what the UK is doing on energy and immigration is appalling.’

He encouraged Sir Keir to ‘open the North Sea’ and said that ‘windmills everywhere are ravaging the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields’.

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