Trump’s betrayal of Britain
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So President Trump comes to Ireland to watch the Irish Open Golf tournament at his Doonbeg golf course, then has a series of frenzied meetings with an Irish establishment that profoundly hates him, and casually mentions that he hopes to live long enough to see Irish Unity.
F*ck him.
As a British citizen of Northern Ireland, the country Trump thinks needs to be dissolved in pursuit of some weird Irish fantasy, I could not be more opposed to what he said and I have put my opposition on the record. The majority of people living in Northern Ireland have no desire to be absorbed into the Irish Republic — a republic which, to my eyes, looks increasingly like Somalia. Why does Trump think I should abandon MY British citizenship so the likes of Sinn Fein/IRA can be accommodated?
The Irish Prime Minister, Micheal Martin, was seated beside Trump when the hope for Irish Unity was expressed and he beamed broadly at the President’s words.
Maybe Trump should remember what Micheal Martin said about him in 2019
“I think President Trump is doing a disservice to democracy.”
Or perhaps from earlier this year when Martin condemned the US attack on the Mad Mullahs in Iran and added
“We could be forever trying to interpret President Trump in terms of what he said and what actually gets done.”
Or perhaps he could reflect on the words of the Irish President Catherine Connolly who he also sat with;
“I shudder at what President Trump represents but I shudder even more at what is behind him.”
Yes, these are the Trump-hating Irish and yet Trump thought it clever to pander to them (US Mid Terms coming up and the large Irish diaspora vote to be taken into account?). I couldn’t be more annoyed at him.
I am not the only person annoyed by Trump’s injudicious comments on Irish unity.
Nigel Farage responded unambiguously;
“Northern Ireland is a proud and integral part of the United Kingdom. The people of Northern Ireland neither want a referendum nor unification. I disagree with President Trump.”
Rupert Lowe went further;
“The American President is talking about breaking up our country. This is unacceptable, this is insulting.”
Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch was also forthright;
“These sorts of frivolous statements about the future of democratic countries are deeply unhelpful and create unnecessary tension”
By way of contrast, Sinn Fein was happy.
Their Leader, Mary Lou McDonald welcomed the intervention and used it to put pressure on Micheál Martin. She said Trump’s remarks demonstrated that the conversation about Irish unity has “moved”, and argued that the Irish Government now needs to begin preparing for reunification.
So Trump’s language has not gone down well amongst those in Britain but is lapped up in Dublin. Terrific.
One thing that has surprised me is the response from some Trump supporters. They attacked me because I was unhappy to be told by Trump that my country should cease to exist. They came up with the usual nonsense about “trusting the plan” and “he is playing 3D chess” What this demonstrates is that they cannot cope with any criticism of Trump and that’s fundamentally unhealthy. If you cannot criticise your leader, you are not in a political party, you’re in a CULT.
Surely my fair minded readers will accept that no one is so perfect that they get everything right all the time! I know I get plenty wrong. Trump is not perfect and I think he makes mistakes too. By way of context, I have supported him since 2015 through thick and thin but I feel he has betrayed me. So I am going to say that and I don’t see why I should remain silent as he ponders the ending of my country.
Let’s be clear. Northern Ireland IS British. King Charles is our Head of State. The British Pound is our currency. We have fought world wars for Britain and endured a decades -long terrorism campaign by Irish terrorists seeking to dislodge us from the rest of the UK.
Can you imagine the sense of betrayal I feel over this?
Trump aligns himself objectively with those who hate Britain and want to see it broken up. How is this helpful?
Of course Trump has history here which I have never quite forgotten.
And then others try to claim that what Trump is REALLY doing here is expressing his annoyance at the lack of support from the Labour Government when it came to Iran. You see in addition to the Irish unity comment he also referenced the Falklands and the US has just sold Argentine state-of- the- art Black Hawk helicopters. So this is Trump playing geo-politics, some suggest, and he is really just teaching the Labour Government a lesson. That’s nonsense. The Labour Party is stacked with people who want to see Irish Unity and the ending of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. His stupid comments will be music to their ears!
The bottom line here is that IF you want to provoke the return of conflict on the island of Ireland, telling one million unionists that they should simply accept government by a foreign state would be a good way to do it.
Does Trump seriously imagine they will just stand idly by while their country is taken from them?
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