{"id":381362,"date":"2026-01-21T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381362\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:41:08","slug":"trump-flips-position-to-attack-u-k-s-starmer-over-chagos-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381362\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump flips position to attack U.K.\u2019s Starmer over Chagos deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s plans to return sovereignty of Diego Garcia \u2014 an island that houses a crucial military base \u2014 to Mauritius, reversing his previous support for the proposal in a further deterioration of transatlantic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited the decision to justify his ambitions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/world\/politics\/trump-meet-greenland-davos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. to acquire Greenland<\/a>, in a post on Truth Social early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shockingly, our \u2018brilliant\u2019 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 Trump said. &#8220;There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s plans to return sovereignty of Diego Garcia \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102241,141,59,57,58,6232,420,50,3962,5134,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-chagos","tag-donald-trump","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenland","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-u-k","tag-u-s","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381362","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=381362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}