US President Donald Trump mocked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and accused him of being evasive about sending aircraft carriers.
During an Easter lunch speech at the White House, Trump claimed that Starmer said he would have to speak to his team before deciding to send over UK aircraft carriers for the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Trump said that the UK “should be our best” ally, but they failed the US during the war.
He continued, “I asked [the] UK, who should be our best. In fact, the king is coming over here in two weeks, he’s a nice guy, King Charles”, he said.
“But should be our best but they weren’t our best. I said, ‘You have two, old broken-down aircraft carriers, do you think you could send them over?’
“‘Ohhh, I’ll have to ask my team.’
“I said, ‘You’re the prime minister, you don’t have to.’
“‘No, no, no, I have to ask my team. My team has to meet, we’re meeting next week.’
“But the war already started. Next week the war’s going to be over … in three days.”
Although the White House released the video on social media, it was deleted later.
Trump also mocked Macron and the French in the same speech. “I call up France, Macron — whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw,” Trump said.
The US president was referring to a May 2025 news video that appeared to show Brigitte Macron shoving the French president’s face on a trip to Vietnam, which Macron later rejected as part of a disinformation campaign.
“And I said, ‘Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf even though we’re setting records on knocking out bad people and knocking out ballistic missiles. We’d love to have some help. If you could, could you please send ships immediately,'” Trump continued.
He then mimics a French accent to give Macron’s alleged answer, “‘No no no, we cannot do that, Donald. We can do that after the war is won,'” he said.
“I said, ‘No no, I don’t need after the war is won Emmanuel,'” Trump said.
“So I learned about NATO. NATO won’t be there if we ever have the big one, you know what I mean by the big one,” Trump said, without elaborating.
He also branded NATO a “paper tiger”, the latest salvo by Trump and his top officials against the transatlantic alliance since he returned to the White House last year.
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