Trump Compares Starmer To Hitler Appeaser Neville Chamberlain In Latest Jibe At PM

The US president stepped up his war of words over the Iran war.

Donald Trump has appeared to compare Keir Starmer to the British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before the Second World War.

The US president said “we won’t want another Neville Chamberlain” in his latest jibe at the prime minister.

Trump has previously said Starmer is “not Winston Churchill” over his refusal to allow the UK to become directly involved in the Iran war.

Discussing the conflict at an Easter event at the White House on Monday, the president told reporters the UK had “a long way to go”.

He said: “We won’t want another Neville Chamberlain, do we agree? We don’t want Neville Chamberlain.”

Chamberlain was Tory prime minister in the 1930s and is most remembered for the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany.

After returning from talks with Hitler in Munich in 1938, he produced a piece of paper with the German leader’s signature which declared indicated “peace for our time”. Britain entered the war the following year.

Trump’s remarks come just weeks before King Charles travels to America for a state visit with relations between the UK and US governments at a low ebb.

Starmer initially refused Trump’s request for US jets to be allowed to use RAF bases to launch attacks on Iran at the start of the war.

He has also rejected the president’s demands for the international community to send warships to help re-open the Strait of Hormuz.

The prime minister has said the conflict is “not our war”, and suggested it breaks international law and that Trump has no plan on how to end it.

During Monday’s event, Trump repeated his threat to bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure if Tehran does not reopen the key waterway.

He also claimed to have already achieved “regime change” by killing Iran’s previous leaders, including the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He said: “The people we are negotiating with now on behalf of Iran are much more reasonable.”

His comments came just a day after he called the Iranian regime “crazy bastards” in an expletive-laden post on Truth Social.

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