{"id":878960,"date":"2026-09-03T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878960\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:30:12","slug":"us-politics-live-updates-trump-doubles-down-on-harry-and-meghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878960\/","title":{"rendered":"US politics LIVE updates: Trump doubles down on Harry and Meghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States would support Britain in another conflict over the Falkland Islands in an interview with a British broadcaster aired Thursday, injecting new tension into the long-standing dispute over the British-controlled archipelago also claimed by Argentina.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments came as his ideological ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, prepared to deliver a televised national address about what his government has described as diplomatic progress over the islands that lie about 480 kilometres (300 miles) off Argentina\u2019s coast in the South Atlantic.<\/p>\n

When asked in an interview with British television channel GB News whether the US would \u201ccome to the aid\u201d of Britain in a new conflict over the territory, Trump avoided answering directly.<\/p>\n

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The people of the Falklands voted overwhelmingly to remain part of the UK in a 2013 referendum.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, look, I was there when they had the first war,\u201d Trump said of the 10-week conflict that erupted in April 1982, when Argentina\u2019s waning military dictatorship invaded the islands and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent British naval forces across the Atlantic to retake them. <\/p>\n

The war killed 649 Argentine troops, 255 British service members and three islanders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a long time ago and I watched it so carefully, and you comported yourselves very well,\u201d Trump added. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou took it back pretty strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States would support Britain in another conflict over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-878960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}