The US President has promised ‘we will remember’ in a new Truth Social post as the Government readies to send the UK’s flagship aircraft carrier to the Middle East
Donald Trump has lashed out against Keir Starmer, saying the US would “remember” after the Prime Minister chose not to send Britain’s military to aid his war in Iran – as polls show the vast majority of Brits oppose the move.
The military announced today that it was preparing to send one of its flagship aircraft carriers, the HMS Prince of Wales, to the Middle East today, a week into the US-Israeli campaign. The ship would reinforce a British military presence in the region which has been bolstered “since January”, with jets and “additional assets” having been conducting air defence activity for the last week.
But Trump said in his latest post on his Truth Social platform that the US doesn’t “need them any longer”, while accusing the Prime Minister of trying to join a war “after we’ve already won”.
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Writing on the platform, he said: “The 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’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
The Iran war is hugely unpopular in the UK, with recent polls showing rock-bottom support for the offensive since it began earlier this month.
UK pollster YouGov found in a poll conducted on March to, that of 4,132 Brit adults, the vast majority – 49 percent – did not support the US assault on Iran, with just 28 percent saying they were in support. An even larger proportion of the same group opposed allowing the Trump administration to even use UK bases for their attacks, with 50 percent against and 32 percent for.
Sir Keir’s base is the most fervently opposed, the same data reveals, with more than 60 percent of Labour voters opposed to the attacks. A ministry spokesperson said the ship being sent to the Middle East was part of the country’s efforts to protect British citizens, not assist in the war effort.
They said: “We have been bolstering our UK military presence in the Middle East since January, and we have already deployed capabilities to protect British people and our allies in the region, including Typhoons, F-35 jets, air defence systems and an extra 400 personnel into Cyprus.
“Since the strikes began, we’ve had British jets in the sky shooting down drones and have sent additional assets to the region to further reinforce our air defences, including more Typhoons and Wildcat helicopters with drone busting missiles.
“HMS Prince of Wales has always been on very high readiness and we are increasing the preparedness of the carrier, reducing the time it would take to set sail for any deployment.” The war remains highly unpopular in the US as well, where Trump and his Vice President, JD Vance, recently saw the bodies of six soldiers who died fighting in Iran returned from the Middle East.
Six troopers, Major Jeffrey O’Brien, 45, 1st Class Noah L Tietjens, 42, Captain Cody A Khork, 35, 1st Class Nicole M Amor, 39, Chief Warrant Officer Robert Marzan, 54 and Specialist Declan J Coady, 20, have died since the conflict began earlier this month.
More casualties would “likely” come, the President said in public comments early after the conflict began, but support for the war at home is now just eight points above the floor in polls for Vietnam in the 1980s. A massive 48 percent of 1,633 people told a YouGov poll they disapproved, while just 37 percent approved.
