{"id":2575628,"date":"2026-03-03T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-skewers-starmer-over-lack-of-iran-cooperation-not-winston-churchill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:14:33","slug":"trump-skewers-starmer-over-lack-of-iran-cooperation-not-winston-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-skewers-starmer-over-lack-of-iran-cooperation-not-winston-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump skewers Starmer over lack of Iran cooperation: &#8216;Not Winston Churchill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-skewers-starmer-over-lack-of-iran-cooperation-not-winston-churchill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2575628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-the-monster-building-in-hong-kong-with-hundreds-of-floors\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show The Monster Building In Hong Kong With Hundreds Of Floors?\">article reports<\/a> that Donald Trump attacked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not cooperating with the United States on Operation Epic Fury, including Starmer\u2019s alleged refusal to allow U.S. heavy bombers to use Britain\u2019s Diego Garcia base. Speaking beside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump contrasted Starmer unfavorably with Winston Churchill and criticized the UK and Spain for unfriendly positions, mentioning possible trade consequences with Spain.He referenced disputes over access to Diego Garcia and suggested the U.S. could land there if needed, while also tying the remarks into broader Iran-related tensions and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >related coverage<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump skewers Starmer over not cooperating on Iran: &lsquo;Not Winston Churchill we&rsquo;re dealing with&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2520653\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> bashed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/keir-starmer\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3660\">Keir Starmer<\/a> over his lack of cooperation in Operation Epic Fury, unfavorably contrasting him with another British prime minister, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/winston-churchill\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3690\">Winston Churchill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer apparently <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/feb\/19\/keir-starmer-antonia-romeo-cabinet-secretary-donald-trump-chagos-islands-deal-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">declined to allow U.S. heavy bombers <\/a>to use the U.K.&rsquo;s base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Speaking to reporters next to a visibly uncomfortable German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump voiced his displeasure with the recent behavior of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4478488\/trump-threatens-trade-spain-nato-defense-spending\/\">Trump threatens to cut off all trade dealings with Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4478465\/trump-denies-israel-forced-us-attack-iran\/\">Trump denies Israel &#8216;forced&#8217; US to attack Iran: &#8216;I might have forced Israel&#8217;s hand&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4476674\/trump-regime-insider-more-appropriate-lead-iran-than-reza-pahlavi\/\">Trump says regime insider &#8216;more appropriate&#8217; to lead Iran than Reza Pahlavi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4478465\/trump-denies-israel-forced-us-attack-iran\/\">TRUMP DENIES ISRAEL &lsquo;FORCED&rsquo; US TO ATTACK IRAN: &lsquo;I MIGHT HAVE FORCED ISRAEL&rsquo;S HAND&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By the way, I&rsquo;m not happy with the U.K. either,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;That island that you read about, the lease, OK? He made it for whatever reason. He made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him, and it&rsquo;s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there would have been much more convenient landing there, as opposed to flying many extra hours.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we&rsquo;re dealing with.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Sean Hannity made the exact same allusion the night before during his interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an interview Trump told his supporters to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer was not the only target of Trump&rsquo;s wrath. At the same meeting, he said he was cutting off all <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4478488\/trump-threatens-trade-spain-nato-defense-spending\/\">dealings with Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And now, Spain actually said that we can&rsquo;t use their bases, and that&rsquo;s all right. &hellip; We could use their bases if we want,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We could just fly in and use it. Nobody&rsquo;s going to tell us not to use it, but we don&rsquo;t have to. But they were unfriendly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4477957\/threat-iran-retaliation-across-middle-east-embassies-airports\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4477957\">THREAT FROM IRANIAN RETALIATION STRIKES SPREADS ACROSS MIDDLE EAST, TARGETING EMBASSIES AND AIRPORTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Spain has absolutely nothing we need, other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nd-coach-shuts-down-espn-for-making-victory-about-race\/\" title=\"ND Coach Shuts Down ESPN For Making Victory About Race\">great people &#038;mdash<\/a>; they have great people,&rdquo; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Though the United Kingdom did not participate in Operation Epic Fury, it has begun publicly mulling a response, especially after Iran tried to attack its base in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump blasts Starmer over Iran; not Churchill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2575629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26062607335834.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4551,3823,34755,3634,73296],"class_list":["post-2575628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-starmer","tag-trump","tag-uk-politics-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26062607335834.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575632,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575628\/revisions\/2575632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}