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People talk about “the luck of the Irish” but is it possible that the Irish are about to run out of luck with the new Trump regime? Is the mother of all hammers about to drop on the Emerald Isle and if so, what might trigger this?
Well it’s quite a long list of insults directed at Trump that we need to consider;
Gript Media reports here that
“Irish taxpayer money funded a film that accuses the U.S. President of sexual assault. With €350,000 in state funding and Screen Ireland’s name in the credits, Trump called the film called a “defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job.”
Ireland’s vitriol towards Israel has gone off the scale since Oct 7th.
Time and time again, Israel has been singled out to such a degree that Israel took the unprecedented decision to close its Embassy in Dublin.
That did not stop the Irish Government Ireland from its ongoing attacks on Israel. It conceived an “Occupied Territories Bill” which it was preparing to steer into Law.
You see Ireland has a $1 billion trade surplus with Israel, exporting more than $1.2 billion to the country in 2018. The Occupied Territories Bill would ban any goods or services produced, even partially, in the Israeli-occupied territories—including the Golan Heights—or by Israelis who travel, even temporarily, beyond the Green Line.
This was good to go in early January but was suddenly binned days before Donald Trump was sworn in as President. There was a scent of fear in the Irish air.
Yet the Irish elite still don’t get it. Consider this headline if you will.
And here’s another exhibit.
You have to laugh at the audacity of it all. The Irish economy is entirely dependent on a good relationship with the USA. It seems to me that relationship has vanished.
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, appears to have the measure of the Irish government: ‘At an event last summer, a source tells me, Lutnick scolded an Irish diplomat: “I hate your government.”
St. Patrick’s Day should prove interesting.
