{"id":893109,"date":"2026-09-12T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893109\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:50:11","slug":"trump-visits-ireland-says-unification-would-be-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893109\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump visits Ireland, says unification would be ‘fantastic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see the Republic of\u00a0Ireland<\/a>, an EU member,\u00a0unite with British-run \u2060Northern Ireland<\/a> as he faced reporters’ questions on a range of issues on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Trump is taking the weekend trip largely to\u00a0watch the Irish Open golf tournament held on a course he owns on the country\u2019s Atlantic coast, but he\u00a0met as well with the Irish\u00a0president and prime minister, or taoiseach.<\/p>\n

The US leader also spoke optimistically about his country’s war with Iran<\/a> and its trade conflict with Canada<\/a>, among several other topics.<\/p>\n

What did Trump say about Ireland?<\/p>\n

After a meeting with Irish Prime Minister\u00a0Micheal Martin in the capital, Dublin, Trump said he very much supported what he said would be the eventual unification of the two parts of the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n

“Well, I don’t want to \u200bcause any problems, \u200bbut \u200cI will tell you, I’d love to see \u200cit unified,” Trump told \u200creporters.<\/p>\n

“The way I look at it, it’s \u2060going \u200bto happen \u200beventually … I think it would \u200bbe a \u200cfantastic thing,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Now the UK will have \u200bsomething \u2060to say about it … but \u2060I think \u200bit would be a great thing.”<\/p>\n

The British government responded swiftly to the remarks, with Prime Minister Andy Burham’s office\u00a0saying that in his view, there was no majority public support for a referendum on the issue\u00a0and that there would not be another one until that changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previous US presidents have avoided touching on the subject in view of the delicate nature of the issue, with Northern Ireland seeing decades of of deadly sectarian violence in the 20th century<\/a> over the question of whom it should belong\u00a0to.<\/p>\n

\"MichealMicheal Martin (L) has led Ireland twice since 2020Image: Brendan Smialowski\/AFP<\/p>\n

What did Trump say about the Iran war?<\/p>\n

Trump also said that the US war with Iran, which began on February 28, would “end very soon” \u2014 a view he has frequently expressed in the past, but which has not yet materialized.<\/p>\n

He also said that the end of the conflict would mean that the price of oil, which has soared as a result of the war,<\/a> would “come tumbling down.”<\/p>\n

However, he vehemently defended his decision to mount the military operation against Iran.<\/p>\n

He said that the US attacked because\u00a0“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”, adding: “They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n

“If they had it, they would have blown up Israel, they would have blown up the Middle East, and they would have hit some […] in my opinion, [of] Europe’s cities and beyond cities, and they would probably hit us soon before we put out the fire. But they cannot have a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n

The war with Iran is not supported by a majority of the US population, particularly in view of promises made by Trump on the campaign trail to keep his country out of foreign “forever” conflicts.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MichealTrump and Martin held talks in Farmleigh House in Phoenix Park in DublinImage: Brendan Smialowski\/AFP<\/p>\n

What did Trump say about Canada?<\/p>\n

The president sounded a similarly optimistic note regarding the US trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n

He said Canada was keen to make a deal and that one could be struck “fairly soon,” while reiterating his claims that Canada had treated US farmers unfairly with its tariffs.<\/p>\n

“Canada \u200cwants to make a \u200cdeal \u200bvery badly,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Canada has \u200bto treat our farmers better. \u200bThey can’t \u200ccharge our farmers tariffs,” he\u00a0said, \u200badding: “You’ll \u2060probably see a deal with Canada \u2060fairly \u200bsoon.”<\/p>\n

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