Donald Trump greets King Charles at the South Portico of the White House for a state dinner on Tuesday.King Charles “would probably have helped” America in the Iran war, Donald Trump has claimed.
The US president said the monarch would also have backed his approach to the war in Ukraine and Nato.
His comments, during the king and Queen Camilla’s state visit to the States, will be seen as yet another dig at Keir Starmer.
The prime minister and Trump have been at loggerheads ever since the government refused a White House request for US jets to use RAF braces to launch attacks on Iranian targets.
Britain and America have also pursued different approaches to the Ukraine war, with Trump regularly attacking Volodymyr Zelenskyy and echoing Kremlin talking points.
Meanwhile, the president has regularly criticised Nato and threatened to withdraw America from the military alliance.
Speaking in the White House, Trump said: “He’s a great king, and he’s a great friend of mine. And I think if that were up to him, he would probably have helped us with Iran.
“He would have followed the suggestions we made with respect to Ukraine, because we have some disagreements on Ukraine. And not having to do with Nato so much as European countries.”
The president’s remarks came after he broke Royal protocol by apparently revealing the details of a private conversation with King Charles about the war in Iran.
He told a state dinner at the White House: “We’re doing a little Middle East work right now… and we’re doing very well.
“We have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we’re never going to let that opponent ever, Charles agrees with me even more than I do, we’re never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon.”
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