Trump warns of ‘disaster’ in Britain, says country is at a ‘tipping point’
President Donald Trump warned that Great Britain is at a “tipping point,” facing significant challenges due to its immigration and energy policies. In an interview with GB News, he expressed concerns about the country’s high energy costs, massive immigration problem, and potential for disaster if changes are not made. Trump suggested that Britain could benefit economically by developing its North Sea oil resources, dismissing environmental concerns about the area’s oil reserves, which he claimed could supply energy for centuries. he also criticized European and British immigration policies, arguing they have led to increased crime and societal disruption, citing examples from Spain and London. Trump warned that continued uncontrolled migration threatens to ruin European countries by allowing criminals and destabilizing populations, and emphasized that restrictive border controls, like those the U.S. implemented, could prevent similar issues.
President Donald Trump warned that Great Britain was at a “tipping point” on Thursday, specifically citing the country’s current immigration policies and looming energy crisis.
Trump made the remarks during an exclusive interview with Bev Turner on GB News’s “The Late Show Live” on Thursday. He expressed many concerns about Britain’s future, cautioning that the country would face an ominous future if it didn’t change course on its current immigration and energy policies. Trump claimed Great Britain was on the “edge of disaster” and that Britain had a “tremendous immigration problem” and “tremendous energy problem,” highlighting the exorbitant energy costs in Great Britain and the influx of migrants into the country in recent years.
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“Look, your country’s in trouble,” Trump told Turner. “You’re on the edge of disaster. I call it a tipping point. More than most countries, you have a tremendous immigration problem, and you have a tremendous energy problem. Your energy is three, four times higher than it should be. If you don’t stop people pouring into your country from all over the world, you’re not going to have a country left.”
In a briefing filed by the United Kingdom Parliament, “Gas and electricity prices during the ‘energy crisis’ and beyond, research found that energy costs in Great Britain are headed toward significant increases in the fall, predicting that electricity bills “for typical levels of consumption will be 58% above their winter 2021/22 level.” The country’s recent “energy crisis” refers to the period from late 2021 to early 2023, during which “domestic gas and electricity prices increased rapidly.”
“Under the July to September 2026 direct debit price cap, the average annual bill for typical gas and electricity consumption is £1,663,” read the briefing. “This is well below the peak level of £2,106 under the Energy Price Guarantee from October 2022 to June 2023, but still 18% higher than its recent low in July to September 2024.”
“The price cap will increase by 4% in the fourth quarter of 2026 and is currently forecast to increase by a further 9% in the first quarter of 2027,” noted the briefing.
Trump suggested that Britain could solve much of its energy-related concerns by “going to the North Sea” and utilizing that region’s vast resources.
“Energy you can solve by going to the North Sea, and becoming rich,” Trump told GB News. “You become rich. One of the great energy sources in the world, and I know them all. I have Venezuela, I have the United States. I know them all, and the North Sea, the great North Sea oil, is phenomenal.”
“So the North Sea oil is a goldmine for you if they use it, so you can have either a rich nation or a poor nation,” Trump added. “You have a very rich nation if you do the North Sea, because that’s a big thing.”
He also dismissed many of the environmentalist concerns, suggesting those “lunatics” were wrong about their reservations. He claimed that environmentalists were wrong about the quantity of oil in the area.
“The environmental lunatics would have you believe, ‘Oh, there’s not that much left’. You have 500 years left, and they haven’t even found the best of it,” Trump said. “And you get a lot of your energy from the North Sea. You buy it from Norway, and you’ve made Norway rich. The U.K. has made Norway rich or richer.”
“And they take it from the North Sea,” said the president. “But you don’t, and you have a bigger part of the North Sea.”
The conversation then pivoted toward immigration in Britain. Trump was asked about the riots in Spain over migration in Ceuta. Turner asked the president if he felt leaders in Europe were taking the immigration issue “seriously enough.”
“I took it very seriously,” Trump said. “I closed our border. We haven’t had a person coming illegally into our country. Nobody, nobody gets in, and you could do the same thing. And so could Spain.”
“What’s happened with Spain is an outrage,” the president added. “When I look at it, it’s so sad. It’s going to ruin their whole country. It’s going to ruin the system. It’s going to ruin law and order. It’s a different country. What are they doing?”
Trump was then asked why European leaders would allow immigration to get out of control. He said he couldn’t think of a legitimate reason for doing so. He criticized European immigration policies, which permitted such things to happen, and predicted that it would eventually “destroy Europe.”
“I’ve been asking myself that question for a long time,” Trump replied. “Why would people allow others to come in from other countries? Totally different people, totally different people. I mean, people that have no relationship to the culture to anything, anything, any aspect of what’s been taking place in Spain for so many decades or centuries. Now Spain will be a ruined country.”
The president then mentioned that many of the migrants from other countries hurt society, categorizing many of the migrants as violent criminals that their original countries didn’t want to deal with.
“They are sending people from other countries into Spain that are from prisons, that are from mental institutions, that are the worst criminals in their countries for many different reasons, and they are as sure as you’re sitting there,” said Trump. “They are sending people into Spain that are stone-cold criminals that other countries don’t want, and the other countries are brilliant in doing it. I would do it if I were in another country, too.”
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“Oh, I think it’s terrible,” he added. “And it will destroy Spain, and it’ll destroy Europe because once they’re in Spain, they’re going to not stop in Spain. They’re going to pour into your country and every other country. But they are already pouring into your country.”
Trump then used the immigration surge in Spain and other parts of Europe, including Great Britain, to illustrate the detriment it has had on communities. He cited London as an example, calling the historical city “unrecognizable” due to the influx of migrants.
“I mean, if you go through London, London’s a much different place,” said Trump. “You have a terrible mayor. He’s a nasty guy, nasty person. He’s a very bad mayor. You have crime that’s very high, and London’s a very much different place than if you took somebody from 15 or 20 years ago and brought them through London, they wouldn’t know what happened. Such a different place.”
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