Donald Trump brutally impersonated Keir Starmer and mocked Emmanuel Macron during a White House Easter lunch, ridiculing their responses to the Iran war
US President Donald Trump has launched another attack on Sir Keir Starmer, delivering a scathing impersonation of the Prime Minister. Trump briefly touched on King Charles’ forthcoming visit to the US this month before swiftly shifting his focus back to Starmer, who Trump has previously condemned for his response to the Iran conflict.
Trump adopted a feeble tone to mimic the PM, claiming the UK was incapable of deploying British forces to the region.
The President said that he had enquired whether the UK could dispatch its “two old, worn-out aircraft carriers” to assist in securing the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Trump, Starmer then replied: “No, no, no, I have to ask my team. My team has to meet. We’re meeting next week.”
By that point, the “war might be over”, the president told attendees at the White House on Wednesday. Trump claimed he responded by saying: “I said you’re the Prime Minister, you don’t have to.”
The remarks by Trump, made during the administration’s Easter lunch, a closed event, came to light after being shared by the White House on YouTube. The video was later removed.
The President also ridiculed French President Emmanuel Macron, stating that his “wife treats him very badly.”, reports the Express.
He said: “I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly and he’s still recovering from the right to the jaw.”
The President was referring to a May 2025 clip that appeared to show Brigitte Macron nudging the French president’s face during a visit to Vietnam.
Macron later dismissed the footage as part of a disinformation campaign, insisting the moment had been taken out of context and describing it as “just joking, as we often do.”
Trump said: “I said, ‘Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf even though we’re setting records on knocking out bad people and knocking out ballistic missiles. We’d love to have some help. If you could, could you please send ships immediately.”
Then, mimicking a French accent to give Macron’s supposed response, he said: “‘No no no, we cannot do that, Donald. We can do that after the war is won. I said, ‘No no, I don’t need after the war is won Emmanuel.
“So I learned about NATO – NATO won’t be there if we ever have the big one, you know what I mean by ‘the big one.'”
Trump criticised NATO allies for not joining the war against Iran. He said the US “has some very bad allies in NATO”.
He added: “We spent trillions on dollars on NATO and then when we need them, which we never do. We didn’t need them here either.
“To be honest, I was really asking because I wanted to see what they’d do. We blasted the hell out of Iran and the last thing I needed was NATO stepping in our way because they’re a piper tiger.”
The conflict with Iran kicked off on February 28 when the United States and Israeli forces initiated coordinated air strikes against targets in Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage through which approximately 20 per cent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows, has now effectively been blocked due to the war.
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