{"id":463552,"date":"2026-03-08T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463552\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:00:10","slug":"trump-tells-starmer-help-not-needed-even-as-us-uses-uk-bases-for-iran-strikes-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463552\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Starmer help not needed even as US uses UK bases for Iran strikes | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has renewed his stinging criticism of UK prime minister Keir Starmer<\/a> over the lack of immediate UK support for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on his social media platform, adding: \u201cThat\u2019s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don\u2019t need them any longer \u2013 But we will remember. We don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!\u201d<\/p>\n

The put-down comes after the UK said it would allow US forces to use bases in Fairford, Gloucestershire, and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, for \u201cspecific and limited defensive purpose\u201d after initially refusing the US permission.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s statement came hours after the UK ministry of defence announced<\/a> that four US bombers had landed at an Royal Air Force base in Britain on Friday and Saturday and had already \u201cstarted using British bases\u201d to carry out operations \u201cto prevent Iran firing missiles into the region, which is putting British lives at risk\u201d.<\/p>\n

The statement also comes after British officials said they were preparing an aircraft carrier<\/a> for possible deployment to the Middle East amid rising tensions linked to the conflict between the United States and Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n

A UK defence ministry spokesperson said: \u201cHMS Prince of Wales has always been on very high readiness and we are increasing the preparedness of the carrier, reducing the time it would take to set sail for any deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of Starmer\u2019s Labour party have been cautious about military involvement in the war. Critics of the UK government claim the prime minister has put domestic electoral concerns before a foreign policy that traditionally values the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the US.<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday, at a regional security conference in Miami, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, seemed to offer a veiled criticism of the UK and other nations, like Spain, that refused to let bases be used for strikes on Iran:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when we have learned that an ally, when you need them, may not be there for you, these are countries that have been there for us,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWe want you to see that when you are a friend and ally to the United States, it is a good thing and it is reciprocated back the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has renewed his stinging criticism of UK prime minister Keir Starmer over the lack of immediate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-463552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463552","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=463552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}