Has Trump betrayed the UK?
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Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this video, we explore the question: Has Donald Trump betrayed the UK? We dive into the controversial trade tariffs deal between the US and the UK, the Chagos Islands dispute, and whether Trump's actions are a direct betrayal of the UK and Keir Starmer, or if he's simply putting America first as he promised during his presidential campaign.
With tensions rising, Keir Starmer seems to be scrambling to patch things up with Donald Trump, but is this all part of a larger political play? Should the UK have aligned itself more
European Union? We also discuss whether the Labour Party's previous criticisms of Trump are now coming back to haunt them.
Do you admire Trump’s bold and unapologetic style, or do you think Keir Starmer has the better approach for the UK's future? Could this be a moment of payback after years of political sniping between Trump and the Labour Party? Watch this video to get a deeper understanding of the complex political landscape and the future of UK-US relations under these two powerful leaders.
Key Topics:
- Donald Trump
- Keir Starmer
- UK politics
- Trump UK betrayal
- Trade tariffs UK US
- Chagos Islands dispute
- Brexit
- Ukraine conflict
- Labour Party
- Trump style vs Starmer
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good evening. |
| 0:02.3 | Welcome to the John Gort podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Has Donald Trump betrayed the UK? |
| 0:10.1 | I'm going to say something now. |
| 0:11.2 | It's going to upset a lot of people. |
| 0:12.7 | No, I don't think he has. |
| 0:14.2 | I think if anything, he's going to do us a great big favour. |
| 0:17.5 | Yes, it's probably going to impose tariffs on us like the rest of the EU, but maybe this will make people in government wake up and in the mainstream media, wake up and realize we've left the EU. |
| 0:31.2 | We've been parading, or Stama has, parading around Europe as if we're still a member of it. |
| 0:36.9 | The British people voted out that has never been respected by the political class, |
| 0:42.7 | and tonight they're going to get their bottom smacked by Donald Trump. |
| 0:47.0 | He's had enough of it. |
| 0:48.2 | He's had enough for paying for NATO. |
| 0:50.6 | He's had enough for paying for our defense. |
| 0:52.6 | He wants us to pay more. |
| 0:54.5 | And also, he got elected on a simple ticket. |
| 0:57.7 | Make America great again. |
| 1:00.6 | We were warned. |
| 1:01.7 | He talked about tariffs when he was less lasting power. |
| 1:05.1 | Now he's doing it. |
| 1:07.0 | He's basically saying, why should you be able to produce cars, import them into his country, and sell them for less money? |
| 1:16.2 | That's basically the simple economics of it. |
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