Trump Hits Out At Starmer As UK Confirms It Won’t Join His Strait Of Hormuz Blockade

Posted on 12/04/2026 by Boris Clair

Donald Trump has launched another attack on Keir Starmer as it emerged the UK will not be involved in his plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

The US president announced on Sunday that America and “other countries” will stop ships coming in and out of the vital waterway.

Around one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquid gas supply usually passes through the key shipping lane.

But it has been effectively closed since the start of the war, with Iran targeting tankers which try to sail through it unless they agree to pay a toll.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade.

“Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!”

However, it is understood the UK will not be part of the US effort, although British mine hunters are already in the area.

A government spokesperson would only say: “We continue to support freedom of navigation and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is urgently needed to support the global economy and the cost of living back home.

“The Strait of Hormuz must not be subject to tolling. We are urgently working with France and other partners to put together a wide coalition to protect freedom of navigation.”

Meanwhile, Trump used an interview with Fox News on Sunday to once again compare Keir Starmer to Hitler-appeasing 1930s prime minister Neville Chamberlain.

He said: “Nato is shameful. I mean, look at the United Kingdom.

“PM Starmer said ‘we’ll send the equipment after the war is over’. I said ‘you don’t need equipment when the war is over. You need the equipment before the war starts, or during the war’.

“He made a public statement that ‘we will send equipment after the war is over’, that’s a Neville Chamberlain statement.”

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said: “The UK should be working with other countries to get the US and Iran back to the negotiating table, not fanning the flames of war.

“It’s just days since Trump threatened to destroy a whole civilisation, and a return to war would be disastrous. The prime minister needs to work in lock-step with our reliable partners to secure a diplomatic end to this crisis.”

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CNN Reporter Offers Insight Into Timing Of Melania Trump’s Epstein Remarks

Posted on 10/04/2026 by Boris Clair

CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes offered some insight as to why first lady Melania Trump, seemingly out of the blue, attempted to distance herself from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday.

“I’m told by a number of White House officials that they were just absolutely stunned, particularly by the timing of these remarks,” Holmes told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday night. “It sparked rumors all across the White House campus that she was trying to get ahead of something that most people must not know about.”

Holmes added that some sources close to Trump told her they were less surprised by the first lady’s remarks because she had reportedly been growing frustrated with the online discourse about her alleged relationship with Epstein.

“She’s never actually come out and flat out denied it, and she wanted an on-the-record denial,” Holmes said.

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Holmes: I am told by people who are close to her that they were a little bit less surprised because in private, Melania Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with the online chatter about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and she’s never actually come out and flat… pic.twitter.com/Sbr3UWgM8q

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 9, 2026

President Donald Trump told MS NOW that he did not know about the first lady’s statement ahead of time. He added that “she didn’t know [Epstein].”

However, Holmes said a source inside the White House told her the president was indeed aware of the first lady’s statement in advance.

Starmer Takes Thinly-Veiled Swipe At Donald Trump As Iran Ceasefire Begins

Posted on 08/04/2026 by Boris Clair

Keir Starmer has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at Donald Trump – but insisted the pair’s relationship is not “in tatters”.

The prime minister refused to directly respond to the US president after he compared him to Adolf Hitler appeaser Neville Chamberlain.

That came after Trump said Starmer was “not Winston Churchill” over his decision not to initially let US jets mount launch bombing raids on Iran from RAF bases.

The PM has also rejected the president’s calls for the UK to send warships to the Gulf to help re-open the Strait of Hormuz.

Starmer flew to Saudi Arabia in the immediate aftermath of a two-week ceasefire being agreed between Iran, America and Israel.

He is due to have talks with leaders in the region on re-opening the strait.

Asked by reporters if his relationship with Trump was now “in tatters”, the PM said it wasn’t.

But in a clear dig at the president, he suggested the war broke international law – and was started with no plan on how to end it.

Starmer said: “I’ve acted as you would expect of a British prime minister, which is by being absolutely focused on what is our national interest, and that’s why I’ve applied my principles and my values throughout.

“And my principles and values made sure that our decisions were that we wouldn’t get involved in the action without a lawful basis, without a viable, thought-through plan.

“That was the right position for the United Kingdom, and of course, that has included us taking action, collective self-defence.”

He added: “I’m the British prime minister. I act in the British national interest, but nothing, but nothing, is going to deflect me from that.”

Trump’s Iran Escalation Would Increase Death And Chaos Across The Middle East

Posted on 07/04/2026 by Boris Clair

The economic pain at home and civilian death in the Middle East wrought by President Donald Trump’s war on Iran could hit new levels in the coming days if he follows through on an oft-repeated threat to destroy Iran’s entire electrical infrastructure.

Trump says an attack, which would almost certainly be a war crime, will come if Iran does not agree to a “deal” by Tuesday night. That country’s leaders will likely hit back in kind against Gulf states that are helping the United States, according to military and Iran experts.

“Iran’s only retaliatory capability is to target America’s immediate allies in the Gulf, and Israel, if possible,” said Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Iran has, since the war began, struck military targets used by US forces in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It has also targeted civilian infrastructure, but attacks on its own civilian infrastructure are likely to prompt further escalation. One especially life-threatening possibility is attacks on the Gulf states’ water desalination plants, which are even more critical to those predominantly desert countries than the ones in Iran.

“Iran has already demonstrated both its willingness and ability to retaliate in kind should the US and Israel escalate strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure,” said Mona Yacoubian, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“Bahrain and the UAE are among the likely countries to be hit. Israeli targets may prove more challenging, but Iran will certainly attempt to lash out at Israel as well.”

Such retaliation would dramatically increase the human suffering Trump’s war has already brought to the region, particularly if the damage to desalination plants reduces critical drinking water supply for residents.

Thirteen US service members have died in the war, with hundreds more injured. US and Israeli strikes in Iran have also killed at least 1,500 civilians, according to a human-rights group, including 175 at a girls school in the first hours of the attack.

Iran is also likely to hit more oil production and distribution facilities in the region, which could further inflame the world’s oil market. Crude oil prices have increased about 50% since Trump launched the war, with petrol prices up more than a dollar a gallon in America.

Industry executive Matt Randolph, though, points out that it could get even worse if Iran, with its Houthi allies in Yemen, chooses to close the entrance to the Red Sea as it has already done at Hormuz, the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

“If the response by Iran is to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and I believe they will, then oil prices jump a lot,” he said. “They did it briefly in 2024 just for fun. Just to see if they could.”

The Houthis attacked commercial shipping that year in retaliation for Israel’s total war approach in Gaza that wound up killing many tens of thousands of civilians there. Red Sea traffic was reduced dramatically for a period.

These possibilities did not appear to concern Trump on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, he said Iran was not ready to accede to his demands to end the war.

“They just don’t want to say ‘uncle.’ They don’t want to cry, as the expression goes, ‘uncle,’ but they will. And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges, they’ll have no power plants, they’ll have no anything. I won’t ― I won’t go further, because there are other things that are worse than those two,” he said.

Hours later at a White House news conference he called to celebrate the recovery of two Air Force crew members whose F-15 fighter plane was shot down in Iran late last week, Trump repeated that his deadline for Iran to capitulate was just over a day away.

“We’re giving them till tomorrow, eight o’clock eastern time, and after that they’re going to have no bridges, they’re going to have no power plants. Stone Ages. Yeah, Stone Ages,” he said.

Asked whether that level of destruction would not necessarily harm civilians, Trump claimed that everyday Iranians want to be attacked.

“They would be willing to ― they would be willing ― and it’s suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom. The Iranians have ― and we’ve had numerous intercepts: ‘Please keep bombing,’ bombs that are dropping near their homes, ‘Please keep bombing, do it.’ And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding,” he said. “And when we leave and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, ‘Please come back, come back, come back.’ These are the people.”

What precisely he wants from Iran, however, remains unclear. On several occasions since he began his air attack on February 28, Trump demanded regime change in Iran, but on Monday he said the regime has already changed. He continues to insist that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon while also saying that their programme to make one was “obliterated” in last June’s attacks.

And on Monday, he would not even say that reopening the Strait of Hormuz to unfettered oil tanker traffic was an absolute must ― which was the subject of his Easter demand that Iran “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” – because Iran could effectively close the strait merely by claiming to have laid mines in it.

“They’re very good bullshit artists,” he said.

Trump also again refused to lay out what plan he has, if any, to conclude the war. “I have the best plan of all, but I’m not going to tell you what my plan is,” he said.

He also waxed poetic about an era when larger countries could steal natural resources from smaller ones — known as “pillaging” and defined as a war crime by the Geneva Conventions — and wished he could “take” Iran’s oil.

“I’ve said, why don’t we use it — ‘To the victor, go the spoils’ — and we don’t have that. We haven’t had that in this country probably in 100 years, because even the Second World War, you look at the Second World War, we didn’t have it with the Second World,” he said, before adding that he is good at languages and can probably get elected president of Venezuela after he leaves the White House.

Trump has not ruled out using troops for a ground assault, but has not assembled anywhere near the size of a force necessary to seize and hold Iran’s oil production infrastructure.

When asked specifically whether he was trying to wind the war down or ramp it up, Trump responded: “I can’t tell you. I don’t know.”

Trump Doubles Down On Iran Threat By Claiming Entire Country Can Be Wiped Out In 1 Night

Posted on 06/04/2026 by Boris Clair

Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to take out Iran by claiming the entire country could be wiped out in one night.

The US president claimed over the weekend that Tehran had until Tuesday 8pm ET (12am GMT) to open the major oil shipping lane, the Strait of Hormuz, or face total wipeout.

In a post on TruthSocial on Tuesday, he said: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

The country closed the waterway, which carries around a fifth of the world’s oil supply, in response to US-Israeli strikes five weeks ago – knocking the global economy in the process.

While describing the US military’s “historic” mission to rescue two airmen from Iran during a press conference on Monday, the president interrupted himself to reissue his warning.

“The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night,” the president said.

“They’re going to have no bridges,” Trump later added. “They’re going to have no power plants. Stone Ages, yeah.”

During an earlier Easter address, Trump claimed Iran is “not too strong at all” compared to a month ago, when the US-Israeli strikes began.

He also told the press that the US would target Iranian civilian infrastructure if it does not surrender.

“And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges. They’ll have no power plants. They’ll have no anything,” Trump said.

Then he claimed he “won’t go further, because there are other things that are worse than those two”, adding: “If I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil.

“Because it’s there for the taking. There’s not a thing they can do about it.

“Unfortunately the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I’d take the oil, I’d keep the oil […] make plenty of money and I’d also take care of the people of Iran.”

The president also upped his attacks on UK prime minister Keir Starmer, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain who championed the appeasement policy for Adolf Hitler prior to World War 2.

Donald Trump Launches Foul-Mouthed Online Rant In Latest Deranged Iran Outburst

Posted on 05/04/2026 by Boris Clair

Donald Trump has launched a foul-mouthed rant against Iran as his deadline for the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz approaches.

The US president has given Tehran until Monday to begin allowing oil tankers to once again pass through the key shipping lane unaided.

Around one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through the strait, but that as all-but ceased since Iran began attacking ships in retaliation for America and Israel’s bombing campaign against the country.

That has sent oil prices soaring, sparking fears of a global economic meltdown.

Trump warned Iran on Saturday that “all hell will reign down” if it did not re-open the strait within 48 hours.

In a fresh post on Truth Social on Sunday, the president listed the Iranian targets that America will hit unless Tehran complies.

He said: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

He also told Fox News: ”“If [Iran doesn’t] make a deal, and fast, I’m considering blowing everything up and taking the oil. You’re going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country.”

A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that attacking power plants and bridges would be against international law.

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told the BBC: “This stuff isn’t negotiable. You don’t hit civilian infrastructure.

“You don’t hit schools, you don’t hit energy sources, you don’t hit bridges. Those are war crimes. That is absolutely clear in international law.

“But somewhere along the way we seem to have thrown that all aside and we’ve chosen impunity, indifference, game show gambling over solidarity and humanity.”

‘Those Are War Crimes’: United Nations Chief Condemns Trump’s Latest Iran Threats

Posted on 03/04/2026 by Boris Clair

A senior United Nations officials has warned Donald Trump that targeting key civilian infrastructure in Iran would be “war crimes”.

The US president said bridges and power plants could be destroyed unless the regime in Tehran agrees a peace deal to end the conflict.

His comments, in a post on Truth Social, came nearly five weeks after the war began with a wave of Israeli and US strikes.

Trump said: “Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST!”

But speaking on Radio 4′s Today programme, Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said that would be a clear violation of international law.

He said: “This is infuriating. We’re dealing with the intended and unintended consequences of this reckless conflict, and I think what everyone is observing now is that war is not a television game show.

“Peacemaking is not a real estate deal and the world is not a casino and these actions have real consequences.”

Fletcher added: “This has been a gradual and then very sudden deterioration in the way that we talk about protection of civilians, the way that we talk about international humanitarian law.

“This stuff isn’t negotiable. You don’t hit civilian infrastructure.

“You don’t hit schools, you don’t hit energy sources, you don’t hit bridges. Those are war crimes. That is absolutely clear in international law.

“But somewhere along the way we seem to have thrown that all aside and we’ve chosen impunity, indifference, game show gambling over solidarity and humanity.”

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“You don’t hit schools, you don’t hit energy sources, you don’t hit bridges: those are war crimes.”

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher criticises actions in the Iran war and says leaders have chosen ‘game show gambling’ over humanity by hitting civilian infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/boGJjSsZbp

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) April 3, 2026

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