President Donald Trump has threatened to renege on a favorable trade deal with the U.K., after the country’s leader refused to back his war in Iran.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer initially got into Trump’s crosshairs when he refused to let U.S. war planes use British bases in Cyprus, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Syria and Lebanon. Trump’s apparent contempt for Starmer then deepened when the former lawyer refused to help with a U.S. Navy blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump was clearly still stewing over being rejected by Starmer twice when Sky News reporter Mark Stone called his cellphone. In the resulting interview, published Wednesday, Trump threatened to backtrack on the trade deal struck with the U.K. in the wake of his “Liberation Day” blitz last April.
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