Trump says Irish state including Northern Ireland would be "a great feather in everybody’s cap"
“I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually... yeah, I think it would be a fantastic thing. Now the UK will have something to say about it, obviously. But I think it would be a great thing. I mean, how can it be bad?”
Reported September 12, 2026 by alternet.org. Checked word for word against that report.
During a weekend trip to Ireland that included a golf event and a brief meeting with Irish leader Micheál Martin, President Donald Trump endorsed the prospect of a single Irish state that would include Northern Ireland, a UK-governed region. In The i Paper, columnist James Ball wrote that the topic is deeply sensitive, with over a century of conflict, and that the current peace was built through years of diplomacy involving the United States. Ball said such a presidential comment would normally disrupt the existing situation, though he argued it may not cause a major international incident because Trump’s unpredictability has lessened the impact of his words. Ball added that supporters of the current arrangement had favored Trump over Joe Biden, and that the remarks still focus attention on an issue with grave stakes for Northern Ireland residents.
- alternet.org ↗︎12 SEP 2026