{"id":66829,"date":"2026-08-17T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:34:26","slug":"uk-prime-minister-reportedly-exchanged-messages-with-trump-official-impostor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66829\/","title":{"rendered":"UK prime minister reportedly exchanged messages with Trump official impostor"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s chief of staff, according to reports published Monday.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss \u201cnational security matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Politico cited four unnamed officials in first reporting that Burnham thought he was messaging with Susie Wiles before he became suspicious and cut off communications.<\/p>\n

The White House said the incident had nothing to do with Wiles\u2019 devices being hacked.<\/p>\n

Last year, the U.S. government investigated a series of messages<\/a> that elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures in the U.S. received messages from someone posing as Wiles.<\/p>\n

Soon after those incidents, the State Department warned U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> and possibly other officials using artificial intelligence. The warning followed the discovery that an impostor posing as Rubio had attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor.<\/p>\n

The FBI had warned of \u201cmalicious actors\u201d misusing AI to impersonate senior U.S. government officials.<\/p>\n

Burnham, who became prime minister less than a month ago, has tried to forge good ties with the White House. Trump initially warmed to Burnham\u2019s predecessor, Keir Starmer, before souring on him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[15934,458,38,591,50,8,346,8414,139,2000,9,67,2528,7,1663,2464,348,100,106],"class_list":["post-66829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-andy-burnham","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-keir-starmer","tag-london","tag-marco-rubio","tag-national-security","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-susie-wiles","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s-department-of-state","tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-united-kingdom-government","tag-united-states-government","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117112763990773421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}