Donald Trump Claims King Charles 'Agrees With Me' Over War In Iran

Donald Trump has claimed that King Charles “agrees with me even more than I do” over the Iran war.

The US president’s comments, at a White House state dinner for the monarch and Queen Camilla, will be a major embarrassment for both Buckingham Palace and the UK government.

They also appear to be a major breach of protocol, which dictates that the contents of private discussions with members of the Royal Family should not be discussed in public.

Trump said: “We’re doing a little Middle East work right now… and we’re doing very well.

“We have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we’re never going to let that opponent ever, Charles agrees with me even more than I do, we’re never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon.

“They know that, and they’ve known it right now, very powerfully.”

Relations between Trump and Keir Starmer are at an all-time low over the UK government’s refusal to support the war.

The prime minister initially refused to let American jets use RAF bases to launch strikes on Iran at the start of the war on February 28.

Trump has said Starmer is “not Winston Churchill” and even compared him to Hitler-appeasing 1930s PM Neville Chamberlain.

In 2014, David Cameron had to apologise to Queen Elizabeth II after he told then New York mayor Michael Bloomberg she had “purred with delight” when he told her Scotland had voted to stay in the United Kingdom.

The former PM said: “It was not a conversation I should have had, even though it was a private conversation.

“I am extremely sorry and very embarrassed about it. I have made my apologies and I think I will probably be making some more. I am very sorry about it.”

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