{"id":133437,"date":"2026-03-08T05:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-accuses-starmer-of-seeking-to-join-wars-after-weve-already-won\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:02:46","slug":"trump-accuses-starmer-of-seeking-to-join-wars-after-weve-already-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-accuses-starmer-of-seeking-to-join-wars-after-weve-already-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to \u2018join wars after we\u2019ve already won\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Mar 8 \u2013 US President Donald Trump has accused UK Prime Minister Starmer of seeking to \u201cjoin wars after we\u2019ve already won\u201d and says that \u201cwe don\u2019t need\u201d UK aircraft carriers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US President took to his social media platform Truth Social, while aboard Air Force One en route to Florida, to say the US did not need the UK\u2019s two aircraft carriers in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That\u2019s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don\u2019t need them any longer \u2014 But we will remember. We don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Starmer refused to let Trump use UK bases to strike Iran. Trump later said he was \u201cunhelpful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has not been helpful,\u201d Trump said in an interview with the Sun newspaper. \u201cI never thought I\u2019d see that. I never thought I\u2019d see that from the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer withheld permission from the US to use its military bases to launch its initial strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He instead has maintained that efforts should be made to \u201cde-escalate\u201d the conflict \u2013 while Trump hit back that Starmer \u201cis not Winston Churchill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister later announced that the UK had agreed to a US request to use British military bases for \u201cdefensive\u201d strikes on Iranian missile sites, but stressed the UK \u201cwill not join offensive action now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, British warship HMS Dragon is being loaded with ammunition as it is readied to sail to protect a military base in Cyprus next week.<\/p>\n<p>And, on Saturday United States B-1 bomber jets were seen landing at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Mar 8 \u2013 US President Donald Trump has accused UK Prime Minister Starmer of seeking to \u201cjoin wars after we\u2019ve already won\u201d and says that \u201cwe don\u2019t need\u201d UK aircraft carriers. The US President took to his social media platform Truth Social, while aboard Air Force One en route to Florida, to say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}