{"id":380047,"date":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","slug":"trump-brands-uks-chagos-islands-deal-act-of-great-stupidity-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380047\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump brands UK\u2019s Chagos Islands deal act of \u2018great stupidity\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShockingly, our \u201cbrilliant\u201d 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 the U.S. president <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115926047595803521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are international powers who only recognize strength,\u201d Trump claimed, adding Britain \u201cgiving away extremely important land is an act of great stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president said the U.K.\u2019s Chagos decision justified his desire to acquire Greenland \u2014\u00a0a move NATO allies, including the U.K., have vehemently opposed.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement would pass sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, whose government long claimed it was forced to give up the islands for its own independence from Britain in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Diego Garcia\u00a0military base will remain under U.K. and U.S. control for the next 99 years.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told Prime Minister Keir Starmer last February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-chagos-island-us-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-agreement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C. would<\/a> \u201cbe inclined to go along\u201d with Britain, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-support-for-uk-and-mauritius-agreement-on-chagos-archipelago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> \u201cwelcomed the historic agreement\u201d when the deal was signed in May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShockingly, our \u201cbrilliant\u201d NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[144327,625,891,130677,141,59,57,58,6232,420,16420,36027,151,50,2695,154,56,54,158,55,637],"class_list":["post-380047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-british-indian-ocean-territory","tag-british-politics","tag-china","tag-darren-jones","tag-donald-trump","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenland","tag-keir-starmer","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mauritius","tag-military","tag-news","tag-ports","tag-russia","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}