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Trump Compares Starmer To Neville Chamberlain In Latest Jibe

Trump Compares Starmer To Neville Chamberlain In Latest Jibe

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump has appeared to compare Keir Starmer to the British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before the Second World War. The US president said “we won’t want another Neville Chamberlain” in his latest jibe at the prime minister. Trump has previously said Starmer is “not Winston Churchill” over his refusal to allow the UK to become directly involved in the Iran war. Discussing the conflict at an Easter event at the White House on Monday, the president told reporters the UK had “a long way to go”. He said: “We won’t want another Neville Chamberlain, do we agree? We don’t want Neville Chamberlain.” Chamberlain was Tory prime minister in the 1930s and is most remembered for the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. After returning from talks with Hitler in Munich in 1938, he produced a piece of paper with the German leader’s signature which declared indicated “peace for our time”. Britain entered the war the following year. Trump’s remarks come just weeks before King Charles travels to America for a …

Trump says he’s ‘disappointed in Starmer’ – and repeats Churchill jibe | Politics News

Trump says he’s ‘disappointed in Starmer’ – and repeats Churchill jibe | Politics News

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump has said he’s “disappointed with Keir [Starmer]” over the prime minister’s initial refusal to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East. Repeating his jibe from a few days into the Iran war, the US president said: “Unfortunately Keir is no Winston Churchill.” Mr Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office alongside Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin to mark St Patrick’s Day. Politics latest: Zelenskyy tells MPs Ukrainians ‘know they can trust Britain’ He was asked whether his relationship with the UK had been damaged by Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to fully support the US’s offensive military action against Iran. Mr Trump replied: “Well, he hasn’t been supportive, and I think it’s a big mistake. You know, they make a lot of money on trade with the United States. I went out of my way [to make a trade deal].” “We made a good deal for them and, frankly, probably wasn’t appreciated.” The US and UK announced an economic prosperity deal last year, although the UK is still subject to a …

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

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(Adds dropped word in headline) By Julien Pretot CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY, Feb 15 : The two leading giant slalom racers of the season delivered a blunt verdict on the Olympic course on Sunday, with Switzerland’s Camille Rast saying the hill felt “like a junior race slope” after a race that left her and Austria’s Julia Scheib just outside the podium places. Rast, who finished 12th and 0.37 seconds off the medals, said the layout — flat after a strong top section and unforgiving to mistakes — was not like a traditional giant slalom. “I would love to race on the real slalom slope from the World Champs, because that’s a real slalom slope. This is like a junior race slope. But that’s life. We are at the Olympics and we take what we have to do,” said Rast, second in the giant slalom World Cup standings. American Mikaela Shiffrin, who placed 11th, instead praised the piste’s safety and spectacle. “I don’t think anybody would say there was danger on this hill today. It was actually …