{"id":298425,"date":"2025-07-28T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298425\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:12:12","slug":"donald-trump-drowned-out-by-bagpipe-player-in-humiliating-blunder-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298425\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump drowned out by bagpipe player in humiliating blunder | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> made lenghty remarks upon Sir <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Keir Starmer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a>&#8216;s arrival in <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland<\/a>, but no one could hear him over a chorus of bagpipes. The two leaders met at the US president&#8217;s Turnberry resort in South Ayrshire for a bilateral meeting expected to touch on <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Trump and Starmer to discuss Gaza&#039;s &#039;unspeakable suffering&#039;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2087289\/trump-starmer-discuss-gazas-unspeakable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">topics such as trade and the crisis in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2087643\/donald-trump-live-starmer-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the pair made comments outside<\/a> the grand building, only to be drowned out by bagpipes marking the important ocassion. It&#8217;s not clear what the Republican said, but he went on to discuss starvation in Gaza, admitting that there are &#8220;a lot of starving people&#8221;. He called for &#8220;other nations&#8221; to &#8220;step up&#8221; and claimed EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told him that European nations would &#8220;substantially step up&#8221; their support.<\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is &#8220;one of the main reasons&#8221; for the meeting. Mr Trump said: &#8220;We&#8217;re very much involved and I think that&#8217;s one of the main reasons for our meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the US has &#8220;given a lot of money&#8221; and food to Gaza, but claimed Hamas has stolen much of it. The US president also had a rare disagreement with Benjamin Netanyahu, who maintains that people in Gaza are not starving.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he agreed with the Israeli prime minister, Mr Trump responded: &#8220;I mean based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir interjected at this point, calling the situation in the city an &#8220;absolute catastrophe&#8221;. He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a humanitarian crisis. It&#8217;s an absolute catastrophe. I think people in Britain are revolted in seeing what they&#8217;re seeing on their screens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump made lenghty remarks upon Sir Keir Starmer&#8216;s arrival in Scotland, but no one could hear him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[43389,32,110588,10982,807,12,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-bagpipes","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-gaza-crisis","12":"tag-gaza-strip","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930800685483944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}