Donald Trump today accused Sir Keir Starmer of ‘giving away’ Diego Garcia to Mauritius ‘for no reason whatsoever’ in an ‘act of great stupidity’ that he believes justifies his demand to seize Greenland.
The US president said that ‘there is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness’ by Britain in the Chagos Islands.
But the UK Government has hit back and insisted that the Chagos deal was backed by their closest allies including the US.
Mr Trump said in a Truth Social post today: ‘Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
Trump trolled European leaders with an AI image of them looking at a map showing Greenland as US territory before he flew to Davos