'He's No Roosevelt Either': Senior MP Delivers Brutal Slapdown After Trump's Churchill Jibe At PM

A senior MP has delivered a withering slapdown to Donald Trump after he mocked Keir Starmer over his response to the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran.

The US president said “this is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with” after Starmer initially refused to let the US use British bases to launch their attacks amid concerns the strikes broke international law.

The PM eventually changed his mind after Iran began bombing countries across the Middle East, putting British lives at risk.

Trump’s comments were the latest salvo in an ongoing war of words between him and Starmer which have caused the biggest rupture in the so-called “special relationship” between the UK and America in living memory.

Downing Street officials have been reluctant to further stoke the row by reacting to Trump’s Churchill jibe.

But appearing on GB News this morning, Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “Trump is no Franklin Roosevelt either, is he? 

“We Liberal Democrats have had our criticisms of Keir Starmer, we’ve been repeatedly frustrated that Keir Starmer hasn’t been speaking up and standing up to Donald Trump.

“But let’s be really clear about this. It’s Donald Trump who is trashing the special relationship, it’s Donald Trump who’s making the cost of living harder for British people with his ridiculous tariff war.

“And it’s Donald Trump that’s causing death and chaos in the Middle East through his illegal actions. So he needs to take a hard look in the mirror and rein it in a bit, I think.”