Donald Trump is clearly not happy with Israel after it chose to launch missile strikes into Qatar.
While Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was trying to hit Hamas militants in the Qatari capital of Doha, striking a country which has act as a mediator in the Middle East has sent shockwaves around the world.
To make matters even worse, it appears Netanyahu pushed ahead with the attack without giving the US – or Qatar – significant advance notice.
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Israel’s international alliances have already been put under intense strain by its war on Gaza – only the Trump administration has consistently stood by Netanyahu.
But could Israel’s surprise attack on Doha change all that?
Here’s what we know – and why it matters.
What happened between Israel and Qatar?
Israel launched 10 missile strikes at the Hamas headquarters in Qatar – where the militants have been offered immunity – on Tuesday night.
Several key figures within the militant group had gathered to discuss Trump’s latest peace plan for Gaza.
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Hamas claimed its leader had survived the attack, although his son and four others were killed along with a member of the Qatari security forces.
If this is true, the strike could turn out to be a huge miscalculation for Netanyahu, considering the international reaction and the knock-on impact for peace talks.
The UK’s prime minister Keir Starmer said the attacks “violate Qatar’s sovereignty and risk further escalation across the region”, while French president Emmanuel Macron said the strikes were “unacceptable”.
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The UN’s secretary general Antonio Guterres also echoed their concerns, saying: “I condemn this flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. All parties must work towards achieving a permanent ceasefire, not destroying it.”
Smoke billowing after explosions in Qatar’s capital Doha on September 9, 2025.
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Qatar’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thanil, also alleged Israel had used missiles in the attack which air defence systems could not detect.
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He claimed Israel’s “treacherous attack” had sabotaged ceasefire efforts for Gaza, that mediation efforts were “part of Qatari identity”, and that a legal team was considering his country’s response to the attack.
But Netanyahu has so far doubled down. Speaking at the US embassy in Jerusalem, he said: “The days when terrorist leaders can enjoy immunity anywhere are over.”
He claimed that attack was “fully justified” because it targeted the senior leaders who organised Hamas’s raid on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
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Other officials described the strike as a response to the Hamas attack on Jerusalem bus stop on Monday where six Israelis were killed.
However, Netanyahu did also insist that Israel had acted on its own, saying: “Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility.”
The strike comes after the chief of staff of the Israeli military Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said Hamas leadership would be targeted across “the entire Middle East” with “no place to hide from us”.
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What did the US say about Netanyahu’s latest attack?
The US is allied with Qatar, and even has a huge airbase stationed in the country.
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the attack on the soil of a close ally “does not advance Israel or America’s goals”.
She said the US president had been alerted to the strike by the US military, not Israel, and that Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff then notified the Qataris – only it was too late.
Trump “feels very badly” about the strikes, according to Leavitt, and “made his thoughts and concerns about this very clear” when he later spoke to Netanyahu.
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The US president himself later told reporters that he was “very unhappy about the way that went down” and that he would offer a full statement on Wednesday.
What does this all mean?
Israel’s strikes pour cold water on the US’s ongoing attempts to end the war in Gaza.
Trump had been championing a US peace proposal for Israel and Hamas which would include the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners.
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But his plan did not include a permanent end to the war – a condition Hamas has demanded, but Israel has declined.
This new attack on Qatari soil suggests Netanyahu is clearly no longer willing to wait for America’s backing – and evidently giving up with the talks.
The decision to act without Trump’s stamp of approval also makes the US president look weak and flies in the face of Trump’s deal-making skills, something he has boasted about for years.
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Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders from Gaza City.
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This will all really rile a man so keen to secure the Nobel Peace Prize, especially as he has stood by Netanyahu’s side consistently while other allies in the west have started to question the catastrophic effects of Israel’s actions in the Middle East.
The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen even suggested Trump has been “played” by Netanyahu.
Israel’s strikes could provoke further tensions in the Middle East too, particularly between Iran and Israel who have been holding a ceasefire since late June.
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Iran’s foreign ministry said the attack was a “blatant violation of international law” and an “infringement upon the national sovereignty of Qatar and the Palestinian negotiators”.
It also stokes wider fears that Israel intends to continue a campaign of “score settling” for the October 7 raid – especially as the Qatari PM has said his country “reserves the right” to respond.
One thing is for sure: this is precisely the opposite of what Trump was hoping for.
Sure, most chefs know how to roast and skewer — but the late Anthony Bourdain could do all that with just his words.
The food author and TV personality, who died in 2018, was beloved for his cutting language. That’s precisely why a video of Bourdain using his sharp tongue against Donald Trump has recently resurfaced across multiple social media platforms.
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A clip from a 2017 interview with the CBC shows the Kitchen Confidential author being asked if he’d ever share a meal with Trump.
It should be noted that in Bourdain’s popular food shows, No Reservations and Parts Unknown, he would travel to places around the world and share culturally authentic meals with locals.
“I’m open to sitting down with anyone who’s nice to me,” Bourdain began to explain. “I’ve sat down with everyone from Ted Nugent, the former chief of counterintelligence for the KGB, Hezbollah – people who I disagree with on many, if not every, fundamental issue.”
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But in response to the CBC’s question about dining with Trump, Bourdain responded with an emphatic “no”.
“I just find him personally objectionable,” the chef explained. “I don’t think he likes food.
“And from people I know who have had to endure dinner with him, if you enjoy sitting there listening to him talk about himself, you know, great. God bless you.”
“He only eats steak well done, and if he knows how to use chopsticks, much less is able to grasp them with those tiny little nubbins, I’d be shocked,” Bourdain added.
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Anthony Bourdain eats a carne asada taco from a food truck in Oakland, California, during an episode of No Reservations in 2007.
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When the clip made its way to Instagram and X, users found Bourdain’s take refreshing – and instantly missed the chef.
“America could really use some Anthony Bourdain perspective and wisdom right about now,” one Instagram user said.
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“Anthony Bourdain was curious and compassionate,” another Instagram user wrote. “And had an appreciation for great food, music, stories, culture, history and all that made life colourful. They do not share the same values, and this president wouldn’t deserve to share a table with Bourdain. RIP.”
“We could use his voice and humanity right about now. RIP AB,” another IG user said.
Over on X, many users felt the same way.
“Anthony Bourdain has always been a real one,” an X user said. “From his support for Palestine, to hating Trump, to just being a genuine person who wants to share food with people. I hate that he’s gone.”
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“Miss this man. Society got worse and worse since he departed,” another X user echoed.
This was by no means the only time Bourdain spoke out about the US leader.
When Trump was running for office in 2015, Bourdain was asked what he thought about his campaign promise to build a border wall between the US and Mexico (that Trump infamously claimed Mexico would pay for) and to deport all the undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Bourdain replied that if that happened, “every restaurant in America would shut down”.
He went on to say that as a country of immigrants, we should show recent transplants more respect.
“For the people that have been living here and were so much a part of our lives, and have done nothing but do their best to achieve the American dream … there should be an easy path to legality,” Bourdain said.
“It’s a much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now,” Trump said, after claiming the previous name was “woke.”
Maybe, but the decision to adopt a frankly more aggressive name for the department comes at a time when Trump has thirstily been lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize since his first term in office.
Many people on social media noted the contrast between the war-centric rebranding of the Defense Department and Trump’s insistence on still being known as the ultimate “peacemaker.”
Others pointed out that the DOD name change comes at the behest of someone who avoided military service.
But one person was OK with the new name, provided other government agencies also get rebranded.
“He’s like a cornered rat and he doesn’t know where to go or what to do,” said O’Donnell on “The Jim Acosta Show.”
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“So he goes into his bag of tricks and one of his tricks is, ‘Let’s make fun of Rosie O’Donnell and threaten her,’ even though he’s threatened me before and never done anything.”
Moments earlier, O’Donnell — who now lives in Ireland, having moved there in January — accused Trump of using the post about her to distract Americans from his administration’s handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.
“It’s unbelievable how obvious he is about everything that he does,” she explained, noting that the post — which Trump shared alongside a wonky distorted photo of her — occurred hours after victims of the late convicted sex offender spoke on Capitol Hill.
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“Could you say I’m guilty without saying I’m guilty more than having a flyover during their press conference? As if he’s going to hold the tide?” she said.
O’Donnell — who said that the “time is up” for Trump and “he knows it” — claimed that the president has threatened to sue her for decades and to have “thugs” take away her wife.
“He is deranged,” O’Donnell stressed.
FILE: Rosie O’Donnell appears at the 2024 Elle Women in Hollywood celebration in Los Angeles, November 19, 2024. Trump referred to the comedian, who now lives in Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” back in July and threatened to take away her U.S. citizenship at the time.
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She later turned her attention back to the Epstein saga, declaring that America will not stand for someone like Trump — who was found liable for sexual abuse — dismissing the victims of Epstein.
“This makes Watergate look like a joke!” she said.
“This is unbelievable! And the fact he would say Rosie O’Donnell is not a good American, she never can be. Well, I don’t think you’re a good American if you did what you did, Donald Trump!”
On Friday, the president again dismissed the Epstein saga as a “Democrat HOAX” and claimed that the Justice Department “has done its job” on the matter amid a bipartisan push to force the House to vote on a bill that would require the DOJ to release the files in their entirety.
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Donald Trump has continued his decades-long feud with Rosie O’Donnell by once again threatening to revoke the comedian’s citizenship.
The president shared an altered photo of Rosie on his social media network, Truth Social, on Wednesday, in a post which included Trump’s trademark erratic capitalisation.
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“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” Trump told his followers.
“She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!” he added.
The Emmy winner reposted the doctored photo by Trump in her first post, and included some references to the award-winning drama Succession.
“Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud,” she said. “I’m the distraction – EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting.”
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In her second post, Rosie shared a selfie and once again invoked the convicted sex trafficker.
“Donnie – stripping my citizenship? Cute – the capital is shaking because Epstein survivors are speaking – I volunteer as tribute… to remind you how terrified you are,” she wrote, signing off her message with a kissing emoji.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” he wrote at the time. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
Paul A. Gowder, professor of law at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, previously told HuffPost that Trump’s citizenship threats are “unadulterated dictator behavior” and “a familiar practice of authoritarians”.
“He seems to view it not as an inalienable right but as a status that he can grant and take away at will, a meaningless instrument of his personal public policy,” Gowder said.
The US president literally rolled out the red carpet for his Russian counterpart ahead of the pair’s summit in Alaska last month.
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The talks were aimed at paving the way for the end of war in Ukraine, but broke up without any agreement and Russia’s bombardment of its neighbour has continued unabated ever since.
Speaking to GB News, Johnson praised the “absolutely heroic” Ukrainians for fending off Russia’s attempts to take over their country since his invasion in 2022.
He said he welcomed Trump’s attempts to end the war, but added: “Ukraine is a completely innocent wronged party. We all know that it was…sick-making to watch Putin being welcomed to America like that. We all know that.
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“But Trump, to be fair to him has actually continued to let the weapons go to Ukraine, which is the most important thing.”
The former prime minister also insisted that the Russian economy is in crisis, and that the war could be over by the end of the year.
“I think that Putin is in a much, much weaker position than people say,” Johnson said. “I mean, Russia is getting really mauled on its hydrocarbon production by Ukraine. I think the problems they’ve got in the refineries are very serious.
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“You’re seeing a 10% reduction in Russia’s output of gasoline. You’re seeing shortages of fuel. Inflation is going up, as I say. Couple that with failure on the battlefield, Putin’s position, and what I would say to President Trump, and sometimes I do communicate this, what I would say is, look, Putin’s position is much, much weaker than people think, I think probably weaker than Putin’s advisors are telling him.
“And I think if, if Donald Trump applies the pressure that he can and he’s then backed up by Britain and Europe, you know, I think that there can be a real change here, and I think this war could be over by the end of the year.”
President Donald Trump late Tuesday published an ominous social media post that was directed at the strongmen leaders of Russia, China and North Korea ― who he has all previously lavished praise upon.
Trump appeared to accuse the authoritarian trio of plotting against the United States as China’s Xi Jingping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un buddied up in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
Trump, amid commentary that China may be seeking to wipe from history America’s role in helping to end the brutal conflict, fumed on his Truth Social platform:
“The big question to be answered is whether or not President Xi of China will mention the massive amount of support and ‘blood’ that The United States of America gave to China in order to help it to secure its FREEDOM from a very unfriendly foreign invader. Many Americans died in China’s quest for Victory and Glory.”
“I hope that they are rightfully Honored and Remembered for their Bravery and Sacrifice!” he continued. “May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration.”
Then Trump darkly concluded:
“Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.”
The post came hours after Trump said he was “very disappointed in” Putin after their face-to-face talks in Alaska last month did nothing to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Putin launched in 2022.
Eminem wanted MAGA to snap back to reality years ago – but defectors have been slim despite their leader being shady.
And this may be precisely why an old video of the rapper pointing out one of the most perplexing things about MAGA’s loyalty to Donald Trump has resurfaced on numerous social media platforms in the last few days.
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In December 2017 – about a year into Trump’s first term – Complex asked Eminem, whose legal name is Marshall Mathers, what most bothers him “about America right now”.
“Obviously Trump,” the 8 Mile star responded.
After initially blurting out that answer, Eminem admitted he wasn’t quite “sure how” to articulate what was bothering him about some Americans’ relationship with the failed real estate mogul and former reality TV star, but he eventually found the words.
“It’s so bizarre watching him play to his base that thinks that he cares about them and it’s actually the people that he cares about the fucking least,” Eminem said.
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He continued: “If you’re talking about his core being a majority white middle class people, what I don’t understand is how in the fuck do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire fucking life?”
Eminem on Trump supporters: “Watching him play to his base that thinks he cares about them and it’s actually the people he cares about the fucking least. How in the fuck do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire fucking life?” pic.twitter.com/GyWYUmkkeR
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Eminem on Trump supporters: “Watching him play to his base that thinks he cares about them and it’s actually the people he cares about the fucking least. How in the fuck do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire fucking life?” pic.twitter.com/GyWYUmkkeR
“Who dodged the draft because he had bone spurs in his fucking foot?” Eminem added after the above clip cuts out. “You feel like this is the guy that’s gonna fight for you? He’s already proven with the tax break that he’s not. That’s not benefiting the middle class. I will say this, he talks a good one.”
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And although the Lose Yourself rapper expressed some optimism at the time about his base “shrinking” once MAGA got “woke” to “what the fuck is going on” — obviously they didn’t, since Trump was elected to a second term in 2024.
Considering that MAGA’s cognitive dissonance is still strong today, many folks shared the clip on X, Reddit and Facebook on Wednesday. Plenty of users agreed with the Detroit-born performer and shared their frustrations with other celebrities not speaking out.
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“This is the feeling i get when i see huge banners for him on ramshackle rural houses. like… folks, he hates you,” a Redditor said.
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“Em actually comes from the streets, so he would know,” a Reddit user noted. “Trump makes a mockery out of anyone but himself, and we need to actually bully the people who are dumb enough to think he has their interests at heart.”
“To think that all the hate Eminem got back then was simply because he decided not to stay silent,” another X user said. “And use his platform while other artists are still silent to this day.”
“It’s refreshing to see a celebrity be very vocally and unapologetically anti trump,” a Reddit user said. “Especially someone like eminem who’s loved by a lot of white gen x folks who mostly voted for trump.”
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“I think the US is now at a stage where, if you have any celebrity at all, you need to stand up and scream so ppl actually understand what is at stake,” an X user echoed.
Rapper Eminem introduces former President Barack Obama during a Detroit rally for former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential run.
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This was by no means the only time Eminem has publicly slammed Trump.
Last year, former US leader Barack Obama and the Stan rapper endorsed Kamala Harris at a Detroit rally during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Eminem also had a lot more to say about Trump to Complex in 2017.
“There’s part of me that understands he’s somehow still got [MAGA], because he’s brainwashing them into thinking that something great is gonna happen,” he said eight years ago.
“Nothing is happening. If you are listening to him and you’re not willing to read or fact check, you might just tend to just believe what he says, because he’s living in an alternate reality and he bends it to whatever suits him the best.”
David Frum — an ex-speechwriter for George W. Bush — used an op-ed in The Atlantic to share a frightening forecast of a post-Donald Trump America, underscoring the “terrifyingly clear message” he’s sending in his second term.
Frum looked back to the Teapot Dome corruption scandal under Warren G. Harding and the Watergate scandal under Richard Nixon, noting that the implicated president’s supporters “accepted that he had done wrong, that the guilty should be punished, and that these misdeeds should never be repeated.”
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“Any aftermath of the Trump presidency seems more likely to resemble the aftermath of the Civil War: The reactionary losers who tried to overthrow the US Constitution may acknowledge themselves beaten, but they won’t acknowledge themselves wrong,” he wrote.
“If they won’t acknowledge that, what confidence can anyone feel that they won’t try again if they get the chance?”
Frum — a frequentcritic of the president since the 2016 election — pointed to Trump’s revenge tour in his current administration, his recruitment of loyalists to the federal government and the recent FBI raid on the home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
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“In this second Trump term, things keep happening that would have seemed outrageous—impossible—just a few months before. Every day, there’s a new movement away from the rule of law, toward arbitrary and corrupt personal rule,” wrote Frum, a staff writer for The Atlantic.
“Among the fearful questions pressing upon the country: How does America ever turn back?”
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum.
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Frum stressed that the “government is changing fast” under Trump as well, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement morphing into an “an enormous paramilitary force staffed by people hired for pro-Trump zeal” and his family raking in “hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, gratuities, and payoffs” while ignoring post-Watergate ethics rules.
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“Even if the House changes hands in 2026—even if a president is elected in 2028 who possesses a healthy respect for the rule of law—Trump’s second-term perversion of the government will not be easily undone,” he wrote.
He went on, “Trump is teaching his many supporters that public office is just a game of revenge, that there’s no difference between the government pleading with an ex-president for 17 months to return stolen secret documents and a serving president using claims about documents to target a critic for retaliation.”
Donald Trump has made a truly bizarre claim about what he is supposedly known as in Europe.
The US president said the title – which he appears to have completely made up – is “an honour”.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday, he said: “They jokingly call me the president of Europe.
“They call me the president of Europe, which is an honour. I like Europe and I like those people.”
Trump appeared to be referring to his failed attempts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.
After failing to win any concessions from Russia at a much-hyped summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month, European leaders, including Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, held talks with Trump in Washington.
Trump said: “They’re great leaders and we’ve never had a case where seven, plus 28 – essentially 35, 38 – countries were represented here the other day.”
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But despite his claims, there is no evidence of Trump ever being called the president of Europe by anyone.
Social media users were also quick to debunk the president’s claims.
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Trump claims European leaders jokingly refer to him as the \"president of Europe\" due to respect for his policies, but he hasn’t named specific individuals. No public statements from EU officials confirm this.
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Trump claims European leaders jokingly refer to him as the “president of Europe” due to respect for his policies, but he hasn’t named specific individuals. No public statements from EU officials confirm this.
Research by the More in Common think-tank revealed that a staggering 82% of UK voters now have little or no trust that he will secure a peace deal.
More than twice as many British voters believe Putin got the upper hand in his talks with Trump (32%) than think the American leader came out on top (14%).
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And only a quarter think Trump is helping the peace process, compared to 30% who think he is making it harder.
