{"id":387370,"date":"2026-01-24T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:51:07","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-starmer-rebukes-trump-for-diminishing-british-soldiers-who-fought-and-died-in-afghanistan-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387370\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Starmer rebukes Trump for \u2018diminishing\u2019 British soldiers who fought and died in Afghanistan | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump<\/a> of \u201cdiminishing\u201d the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from UK political leaders and families of veterans over his comments about Nato troops.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump said: \u201c[Nato will] say they sent some troops to Afghanistan \u2026 and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines.\u201d<\/p>\n

That prompted widespread condemnation across the political spectrum and resurfaced questions about Trump\u2019s own avoidance of military service in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Starmer said on Friday: \u201cI consider President Trump\u2019s remarks to be insulting and frankly appalling, and I\u2019m not surprised they caused such hurt to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also suggested Trump should apologise \u2013 not something the US president is known to do.<\/p>\n

A total of 3,486 Nato troops died in the 20-year Afghanistan conflict, of whom 2,461 were US service personnel. Four-hundred and fifty-seven British troops died. Canada recorded 165 deaths, including civilians.<\/p>\n

The PM\u2019s remarks represented an escalation of tensions with Trump\u2019s administration after the president had earlier in the week criticised the UK for giving up the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. On Friday night, the government was forced to delay its bill on the Chagos Islands in the House of Lords.<\/p>\n

Starmer accuses Trump of diminishing sacrifice of Nato troops in Afghanistan<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s decision to call the president\u2019s Afghanistan remarks \u201cappalling\u201d risks a further diplomatic rupture with the White House, but No 10 made the decision to speak out amid fury among veterans\u2019 groups and the families of soldiers who lost their lives.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: \u2018Our president is a negotiator\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president\u2019s supporters in conservative communities \u2013 to the degree that this issue has their attention at all \u2013 are apt to accept his political argument as genuine.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump says US \u2018armada\u2019 heading to Middle East as Iran death toll put above 5,000<\/p>\n

Trump has said an American \u201carmada\u201d is heading towards the Middle East and that the US is monitoring Iran closely, as activists put the death toll from Tehran\u2019s crackdown on protesters at 5,002.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl<\/p>\n

Federal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis<\/a> on Thursday afternoon. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead<\/a> put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Death of Cuban migrant in Texas facility officially classified as homicide<\/p>\n

The death<\/a> of a Cuban migrant inside a Texas immigration detention facility has been officially classified as a homicide, according to an El Paso county autopsy report.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 politics fuel a \u2018new gilded age\u2019, experts say<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cpay-to-play\u201d governing and fundraising style is helping forge a new gilded age where many super rich donors to Trump\u2019s Maga Inc Pac and other top Trump causes are reaping big political and financial gains, including lax regulations, federal contracts and other benefits, say scholars and analysts.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What else happened today:<\/p>\n

A \u201cno work, no school, no shopping\u201d blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions on Friday<\/a> in protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) surge in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The dangerous monster storm threatening half of the US was bearing down on Friday with 13 states already declaring emergencies<\/a> and areas typically unused to prolonged Arctic temperatures bracing for power failures and supply shortages.<\/p>\n

A federal judge ordered the release of Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen<\/a>, who were arrested and charged<\/a> for their role in an anti-ICE demonstration that disrupted Sunday church services in St Paul, Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US military<\/a> said on Friday that it carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people<\/a>. It marked the first known attack since Trump ordered the US military<\/a> to capture the Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro earlier this month.<\/p>\n

A federal grand jury in Maryland<\/a> has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents<\/a> sparked an \u201coutrageous\u201d FBI raid<\/a> on a Washington Post reporter\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

Three days into its immigration crackdown in Maine<\/a>, the Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had arrested \u201cmore than 100 illegal aliens\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

Senator Elizabeth Warren<\/a> and fellow Democrats have accused Donald Trump<\/a> of letting white-collar criminals \u201coff the hook\u201d by diverting crucial resources to his sweeping immigration crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ryan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, has been arrested<\/a>, US law enforcement officials announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Thursday 22 January<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of \u201cdiminishing\u201d the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387370","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=387370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}