{"id":37579,"date":"2026-04-22T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/37579\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:47:10","slug":"donald-trump-slams-keir-starmers-wrong-judgment-on-ambassador-pick-but-says-uk-has-time-to-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/37579\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Slams Keir Starmer&#8217;s &#8216;Wrong Judgment&#8217; On Ambassador Pick, But Says UK Has &#8216;Time To Recover&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">On Tuesday, President Donald Trump criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his choice of ambassador to Washington after the British leader acknowledged making a mistake in the selection.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer Admits \u2018Wrong Judgment\u2019 In Mandelson Appointment<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Trump attacked Starmer in a Truth Social post, writing that the UK leader had made &#8220;wrong judgment&#8221; in appointing former ambassador Peter Mandelson to Washington<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom acknowledged that he \u2018exercised wrong judgement&#8217; when he chose his Ambassador to Washington,&#8221; Trump wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">He added, &#8220;I agree, he was a really bad pick. Plenty of time to recover, however!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Starmer, <a href=\"https:\/\/parliamentlive.tv\/event\/index\/ecc98384-b320-483b-9c1a-4e69eeef2ea7?in=15:33:53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">speaking<\/a> in the House of Commons, acknowledged responsibility for the decision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;I should not have appointed&#8221; Mandelson, he said, adding, &#8220;I apologize, again, to the victims of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who were clearly failed by my decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The prime minister said he was &#8220;furious&#8221; that he was not aware Mandelson had failed security vetting before taking the role.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein Files Trigger Political Crisis Across Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The release of the Epstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/Opinion\/26\/02\/50721044\/epstein-scandal-spreads-in-europe-fueling-uk-political-crisis-and-gilt-market-shock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">files sparked a political crisis across Europe<\/a>, toppling careers and triggering market turmoil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Earlier, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles, was arrested over alleged misconduct tied to Jeffrey Epstein, though he was not charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The fallout intensified after Mandelson resigned from political roles following revelations of payments and ties to Epstein, despite being appointed U.S. ambassador by Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The scandal spread across Europe, with Norway&#8217;s former Prime Minister Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland charged with corruption and France&#8217;s Jack Lang resigning amid investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The crisis coincided with economic weakness in the Eurozone, raising concerns that political instability could strengthen right-leaning movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Disclaimer:\u00a0This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo courtesy: Gints Ivuskans \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, President Donald Trump criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his choice of ambassador to Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[526,213,264,212,896],"class_list":{"0":"post-37579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-keir-starmer","8":"tag-category-politics","9":"tag-cms-wordpress","10":"tag-keir-starmer","11":"tag-pageisbzpro-bz","12":"tag-tag-donald-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116447493832936635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}