Trump tells Starmer to 'straighten out' Britain as he slams Chagos deal and issues Greenland warning
The US President again took aim at Starmer over the Prime Minister's lack of support for Trump's bid to seize Greenland
Donald Trump has told Sir Keir Starmer to "straighten out his country" as he slammed Britain's decision to give up the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
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After speaking for over an hour in the White House Press Room, the President was asked about his relationship with Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron.
The two leaders have toughened their rhetoric on Mr Trump in recent days due to his threats to take the Danish territory of Greenland, with Mr Macron appearing to suggest that the US President is a bully during a speech in Davos.
In response, he said he gets along with the pair but warned they must "straighten out" their countries.
"They always treat me well. They get a little bit rough when I'm not around, but when I'm around they treat me very nicely," he said.
"And, you know, I like both of them."
He added he has "changed his mind" over the UK's plan to give up the Chagos Islands.
These comments came after the US president branded Sir Keir's decision to give up the Islands "stupid."
On Monday night, he wrote: "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."
At the same time, he leaked private messages sent by Macron to him on his TruthSocial account.
Arriving late, the President began Tuesday's White House briefing by listing dozens of so-called "foreign criminals" who have been detained over the last year, brandishing pictures of faces captioned "the worst of the worst."
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He marked one year in office by touting "365 wins in 365 days" in a two-hour speech.
He said as many as 10,000 people have been arrested in Minnesota since he came to power.
The President then spoke at length about immigration, inflation and Joe Biden, among other things.
Trump hinted he wouldn't back down if the Supreme Court ordered him to end his levies on America's allies.
"I don't know what the Supreme Court's going to do," he said.
"I think to me, it reads so plainly, couldn't be plainer. You're allowed to do a license - a tariff is probably less severe than what a license could be."
He continued: "I don't know where there's a case there, but we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars, and if we lose that case, it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back.
"I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people, but we're waiting for that case anxiously.
"And we have tremendous national security because of tariffs, and tremendous income."
He went on to claim the US is the "hottest country in the world" and that "nobody has ever seen anything like it".
"I'm loving Venezuela," he added, weeks after kidnapping the country's leader.
Moving on to geopolitics, Trump claimed he has ended eight wars, which is demonstrably false.
He then claimed to have "done more for NATO than any other person alive or dead" as he repeated his concerns about the US's allies failing to pay their fair share in the alliance.
Taking aim at the United Nations, he suggested his so-called "Board of Peace" could replace the body.
This appearance came as Trump waged a war of words with his European allies, hitting out at Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron as he threatened to slap a fresh wave of tariffs on the EU.
President Trump warned on Tuesday that he “no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace” after being denied the Nobel Peace Prize, in his letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
He also issued a warning over Greenland, saying the US needs to have “complete and total control” for the world to remain secure, demanding the Danish territory is handed over to America.
In an emergency speech from Downing Street, the PM said: "The UK and the US are close allies and close partners.
"That relationship matters profoundly, not just to our security but to the prosperity and the stability that people here depend upon."Under President Trump, as under previous presidents, we are determined to keep that relationship strong, constructive and focused on results."
He added: "Mature alliances are not about pretending differences don't exist. They are about addressing them directly, respectfully and with a focus on results.
"On Greenland, the right way to approach an issue of this seriousness is through calm discussion between allies."
He described the threat of new tariffs from Trump over Greenland as a "moment for the whole country to pull together".
Trump said he wants to take over Greenland because of its strategic Arctic location and mineral wealth.
The US President has ramped up his attempts to take control of Greenland, refusing to rule out military intervention and threatening to slap his European allies with a wave of new tariffs.
“We do believe that we need more growth and more stability in this world, but we do prefer respect to bullies,” Macron told the World Economic Forum, speaking in English.
“We do prefer science to conspiracies, and we do prefer the rule of law to brutality.”
He added: “Sometimes Europe is too slow, for sure, and needs to be reformed, for sure.
“But [it] is predictable, loyal, and where you know that the rule of the game is just the rule of law – it’s a good place.
“I think this is a good place for today and for tomorrow”, he said, before pledging to commit 2026 to delivering a global agenda “in order to fix global imbalances through more cooperation”.