Watch the moment GB News star Eamonn Holmes set out his approach to “deal with” Donald Trump amid growing tensions between the US and Europe.
The President is due to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos later today, where he is scheduled to meet with several world leaders, as well as deliver a speech.
His widely-anticipated address will follow a growing rift between Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Trump after the President slammed the Chagos deal as an “act of great stupidity” and doubled down on his vow to annex Greenland.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Trump accused Sir Keir as well as French President Emmanuel Macron of duplicity, saying: “[They] treat me well.
“They get a little bit rough when … I’m not around, but when I’m around, they treat me very nicely.”
As a result, Eamonn decided to give his take on the whole ordeal while global tensions bubble away, explaining just how he would handle the world leader.
“I would be confrontational with him,” he said on GB News. “I’d be very direct. I’d take no nonsense from them.
“I wouldn’t care who he is, what way he’s doing it. I just think he gets away with practically murder. And he needs somebody just to tell him to shut up.”
Eamonn said he would take ‘no nonsense’
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In agreement, journalist James Rampton argued Mr Trump only respects “strong men”.
He continued: “And it’s always men, I hasten to add. He’s deeply, deeply misogynistic, but he has a sort of grudging respect for people who are as aggressive as he is and as macho and as idiotically unable to listen to anyone else’s opinion.
“So if you go in there and say ‘no, you cannot tell us a sovereign nation how to run our country’, then he might actually take notice.
“At the moment, he thinks that we’re all just rolling over because of the might of the US economy and saying,’yes, sir. No sir. Three bags full, sir’.”
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Arguining the President has “astounding cheek to tell the UK how to run its own country, Mr Rampton added: “This man has been pandered to his whole life, and now we’re reaping the whirlwinds.”
He declared it was a “big no-no” to tell other world leaders how to govern.
He said: “It would be interesting to see how European leaders address Trump and deal with Trump today at Davos.”
However, Sir Keir is notably absent from the congregation of world leaders in Switzerland today.
Meanwhile, aboard a plane jetset for Europe, Mr Trump said “London is having a lot of problems” when trying to summarise his relationship with the Labour leader.
He said: “They’ve [Starmer and Macron] got to straighten out their countries. London is having a lot of problems.”
But the French President, whotook a swipe at the Republican, saying: “We do prefer respect to bullies. And we do prefer rule of law to brutality.”
He has further warned of emerging “imperial ambitions” between global superpowers.
