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US President Donald Trump sat alongside his German counterpart Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office on Tuesday and unleashed a broadside against some of his European allies.
“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” he said of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after once again berating London for denying the US permission to use British military bases in the Chagos Islands – an archipelago in the Indian Ocean – for offensive strikes against Iran.
Not content with criticizing one European leader, Trump laid into Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez too, threatening to impose a full US embargo on Spain in response to the socialist leader’s…