{"id":345291,"date":"2026-09-12T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T23:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:34:24","slug":"trump-says-ireland-unification-is-going-to-happen-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345291\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Ireland unification is ‘going to happen eventually’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said he would \u201clove\u201d to see a unified Ireland \u2013 and predicted during his trip to the Emerald Isle Saturday that a merger between Republican of Ireland and Northern Ireland is \u201cgoing to happen eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s comments come days after new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said a referendum on Northern Ireland leaving the UK was \u201coff the table.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to cause any problems, but I will tell you, I\u2019d love to see it unified. I have friends on both sides, great people,\u201d Trump said when asked about the controversial topic on his two-day trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Trump, here accompanied by an Irish military officer, walks past rows of standing troops while inspecting the Irish Army Guard of Honor on the front lawns of Aras an Uachtarain on Saturday, spoke about Irish unification during his visit to Dublin. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re Irish people. How can they be bad, right? I\u2019d love to see it unified. I think it would be a great feather in everybody\u2019s cap if that happened. Now the UK will have something to say about it, obviously, but I think it would be a great thing. I mean, how can it be bad?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement empowers the British government to call such a referendum, and requires a majority vote in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland before unification can happen.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland has been under British rule since 1921. <\/p>\n

Unification wasn\u2019t the only UK issue Trump waded into on his trip. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to see it unified,\u201d Trump said on a trip where he visited with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE\/HANDOUT\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Demonstrators take part in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump during his visit to Ireland near the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday, September 12, 2026. Trump said there was \u201cno good answer\u201d to the question about Irish unification. Getty Images<\/p>\n

He also spoke about the Falkland Islands, days after telling GB News he might not help if Argentina sought to seize the territory. Trump has been seething at the UK and other NATO allies for failing to provide sufficient assistance to the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

Tensions are on an upswing between the two nations over the British territory, and Trump ally Argentinian President Javier Millei said in a speech last week that the islands \u201care our future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is on a two-day visit to Ireland, which includes a visit to his golf course in Doonbeg. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE\/HANDOUT\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

While appearing with Irish Toiseach Micheal Martin, Trump was asked about a recent conversation with Burnham and whether the Falklands \u2013 long claimed by Argentina <\/a>\u2013 came up. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember as a young boy, pretty young boy anyway, the Falkland Islands,\u201d Trump said, referencing the 1982 conflict. Then he appeared to say the UK would have difficulty repelling a Falklands invasion by Argentina.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to be willing to travel that far. That is very far away. You\u2019re talking about weeks by boat,\u201d Trump said, adding that he might consider playing a mediating role. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be called into that potential disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president is set to travel later Saturday to his Doonbeg golf course in County Clare, where he is attending the Irish Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump said he would \u201clove\u201d to see a unified Ireland \u2013 and predicted during his trip to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40123,30210,9,11,10,87,1069,58],"class_list":["post-345291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-diplomacy","tag-ireland","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}