Trump slams Starmer's reaction to Iran war

[INAUDIBLE] Thank you. You've been really honest about how disappointed you are in Sir Keir Starmer, particularly in relation to Iran. So I'm curious about your phone calls with him, how easy they might be. And also, were you surprised by-- Are we talking about Starmer?

Yes. Are you surprised by how-- I think he's a lovely man. I do. I think he's a lovely man. But I think he did something that was shocking. He didn't want to help us. And maybe in particular that country, the longest bond, the longest ally. Australia too. Australia was not great. I was a little surprised by Australia. I wouldn't say anybody was great other than the five countries in the Middle East. We never really had very much support. We spend trillions of dollars supporting countries, and this is Little League. This isn't the big league deal. This is sort of Little League pool for us. This was an easy-- this was-- look, we decimated them in a period of a week. In the first week, it was over. In the first few days, it was over. I think their navy took us three days to essentially annihilate it. They weren't there. So if there's ever a big one-- which I hope there's not. But if there's ever a big one, I don't think they're going to be there. And that's not fair, and we have to remember that as a country because we spend trillions of dollars protecting Europe, protecting the countries of NATO. They weren't there for us. They're small time. This is small time. You know what? Venezuela is a big deal, but it's not the big one. They weren't there. So what makes you think they'd be there if we needed them for something? [INTERPOSING VOICES] And your prime minister was not there, as you know. He was there after we won. He said, we'd like to send some ships. I said, we already won. We don't need them anymore.

Well, can you explain why he was reluctant to help? Why he what?

Why he was reluctant to help with Iran? He didn't have to. I didn't ask him. I just said, you tell me no. I mean, we're always going to be there, or at least we were. I don't know about anymore, to be honest with you. I have to be honest. We were always there when they needed help. We always would have been there when they needed help. I mean, think of it. We're there to protect Europe from Russia. In theory, it doesn't affect us. We have an ocean, big, fat, beautiful ocean. But we're there to protect NATO, to protect them from Russia. But they're not there to protect us. It's ridiculous. It doesn't make sense. I'll tell you, a lot of people were big NATO people. I was never big. I was OK. I got them to pay 5%. By the way, they haven't paid it yet. You know that. I got them to pay 5% from 2% to 5%. They didn't pay it yet. I got them to pay up to 2% because they weren't paying the 2%. Then I got them to pay 5%, which he should be at. And we had a lot of, oh, that was great. Great. Oh, only Trump could do it. But the problem is they haven't paid because if you look at the numbers, they haven't paid yet. So we were there for them, but they were not there for us. Did we need them? No. I never thought we needed them. I was more doing a test. I said, I really would love to have you come up. Bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful Hormuz straits, and you can protect people that are being shot at. They didn't do it, and that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying? Go ahead.

I was just going to say, does it affect the state visit with the king that you're going to have in April? Are you looking forward to that? With the king?

With the king. No. No. He's a friend of mine. He's a great gentleman. As you know, he honored me and our country. He really honored our country. But we had an amazing time. I've known him as Prince Charles. I know him as King Charles. I'm proud of him. He's fighting a tough battle. He's tough. I think he's a fantastic-- has nothing to do with that. It's different. And he's going to be here very soon, as you know. We're going to have a state dinner. It's going to be great. But I was very disappointed when the prime minister said, I won't be able to. It started with the island, the island that the Indigenous have claimed away from your country. And for some reason, you went for it. And all of a sudden, Indigenous people that never saw the place-- they never saw it. He was afraid that we would do something to insult because he's a liberal. That's the way they think. [INTERPOSING VOICES] And when we needed the island to land that beautiful B-2 bomber, we were told we can't use it. We'd have to fly back to Missouri, which is a 17-hour flight, as opposed to a couple of hours. And I said, you've got to be kidding. Not good. They made a big mistake.