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By Ellen Milligan and Kate Sullivan
US President Donald Trump scolded the UK for its green-energy push in a roughly hour-long speech at the United Nations in which he criticized many of America’s closest allies.
Trump, who visited the UK for a state visit just last week, denounced Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to diversify from fossil fuels to renewable energy. He added that the government’s stance on immigration was wrong, without elaborating.
“Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe,” Trump told the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, referring to the UK.
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“There’s tremendous oil that hasn’t been found in the North Sea,” he said. “They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company, can go there.”
Still, Trump said he respected and liked Starmer “a lot.”
London’s mayor — he didn’t mention Sadiq Khan by name — was “terrible, terrible,” Trump said, falsely claiming he’s introducing Sharia law to the capital.
Khan’s office said the mayor wouldn’t “dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.” The two have sparred for years.
Trump also slammed Germany over its green-energy policies, as well as Greece and Switzerland for allowing in immigrants. Brazil was cited for, in Trump’s opinion, its censorship and repression.
“Your countries are going to hell,” he said.
— With assistance from Alex Wickham
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