told<\/a> Starmer not to bother. \u201cWe don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n On Monday, after Britain and others balked at Trump\u2019s appeal to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said London\u2019s reluctance to send warships to de-mine the waterway was \u201cterrible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The US president claimed that when he asked Starmer to send assets to help reopen the strait, the prime minister said he would need to discuss the options with his team. Trump said he replied: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry about a team\u2026 you\u2019re the prime minister; you can make a decision\u2026 It\u2019s very disappointing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Trump\u2019s disparagement of Starmer has shown the limits of Britain\u2019s strategy of flattery, according to Peter Westmacott, who served as the British ambassador to Washington from 2012 to 2016.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cStarmer has spent 18 months trying to manage the relationship by not rising to the bait and dealing in private,\u201d Westmacott told CNN. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have a huge ego himself\u2026 He tries to use calm and reason and arguments that will appeal to Trump. But it clearly doesn\u2019t always work, and you never know what he will say the next day.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Despite his growing rift with Starmer, Trump signaled this week that he is soon expecting to receive King Charles for a state visit. At a news conference at the White House on Monday, Trump said once his \u201cmagnificent ballroom\u201d was built, it would be used during visits from foreign heads of state.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have, as an example, the King of the UK \u2013 I would say King of England \u2013 who is a great guy. He\u2019s coming in very soon,\u201d Trump said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The next day at a bilateral Oval Office meeting with Irish Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin, Trump told reporters that Charles would visit \u201cvery shortly.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Trump\u2019s unpredictability could affect the British government\u2019s decision on whether to recommend the king press ahead with his state visit. While Downing Street will not want to risk subjecting the monarch to Trump\u2019s frequent rants against Britain, neither will it want to risk angering the president by abandoning the plan.\n <\/p>\n
\n Still, said Westmacott, \u201cthere could be a moment when the government decides that the risks of going ahead are greater than the risk of causing offense to Donald Trump.\u201d That latter risk would be reduced, he added, \u201cif the two governments were agreed that it made sense to postpone.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Asked Tuesday whether the British monarch\u2019s state visit should go ahead, a Downing Street spokesperson declined to discuss future royal engagements and stressed that the details of the visit \u201chaven\u2019t yet been confirmed.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Although Starmer has faced criticism both abroad and at home for his perceived abundance of caution over British support for the US war against Iran, many of his domestic opponents have since reversed their positions.\n <\/p>\n
\n Nigel Farage, the leader of the upstart Reform UK party and an ally of Trump, initially said: \u201cThe gloves need to come off. We need to accept that we\u2019re part of this, with the Americans, with the Israelis.\u201d But after realizing that Trump\u2019s war is intensely unpopular<\/a>, Farage has since said Britain should not get involved \u201cin another foreign war.\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition Conservative Party, also at first supported joining the US-Israeli offensive. She, too, has since backtracked \u2013 and even defended the prime minister from Trump\u2019s attacks.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m Keir Starmer\u2019s biggest critic. He\u2019s done a lot of things wrong,\u201d Badenoch said Tuesday. \u201cBut I also think the words that were coming out of the White House were wrong. It\u2019s very childish, this war of words and these spats. They might think that they\u2019re entertaining, but\u2026 it\u2019s just unseemly.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u2013 buttoned-up, lawyerly, reserved \u2013 is not a man prone to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-530185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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