{"id":709874,"date":"2026-01-21T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/709874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:05:11","slug":"trump-flips-position-to-attack-u-k-s-starmer-over-chagos-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/709874\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump flips position to attack U.K.\u2019s Starmer over Chagos deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s plans to return sovereignty of Diego Garcia \u2014 an island that houses a crucial military base \u2014 to Mauritius, reversing his previous support for the proposal in a further deterioration of transatlantic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited the decision to justify his ambitions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/world\/politics\/trump-meet-greenland-davos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the U.S. to acquire Greenland<\/a>, in a post on Truth Social early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shockingly, our \u2018brilliant\u2019 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,\u201d Trump said. &#8220;There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s plans to return sovereignty of Diego Garcia \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,13077,32,393,4884,366,807,1144,712,15689,1017,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-709874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chagos","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-u-k","19":"tag-u-s","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115930642941039916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709874","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=709874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}