President Donald Trump shared a clip of “Saturday Night Live UK” mocking British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s over his handling the Strait of Hormuz and the Iran war.
In the sketch, cast member George Fouracres portrays Starmer as too frightened to take a call from Trump, eventually taking advice from a Gen-Z adviser on how to preserve his “special relationship” with the president.
“I’ll do anything, except take a stand,” the comedian says.
Tensions rose between Trump and Starmer when the Iran war first broke out, as the American president accused the prime minister of taking “far too long” to allow the U.S. to use British bases in the region. Starmer initially refused to let the U.S. attack Iran from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean but has since changed course.
Trump said earlier this month that “the U.K. has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have,” referring to Diego Garcia.
After Iran lashed out at its neighbors in the region, the U.K. said American bombers could use Diego Garcia and another British base to attack Iran’s missile sites. On Friday, the U.K. government said that includes sites being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Britain condemned “reckless attacks” after Iran fired missiles toward the U.S.-U.K. military base on Diego Garcia on Friday, with Britain’s Ministry of Defense describing Iran as “lashing out across the region.”