{"id":2289,"date":"2026-01-27T20:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:23:04","slug":"trump-slams-uk-island-handoff-deal-that-could-put-key-us-military-base-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/trump-slams-uk-island-handoff-deal-that-could-put-key-us-military-base-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams UK island handoff deal that could put key US military base at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Trump slams UK island handoff deal that could put key US military base at risk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump calls the United Kingdom’s Chagos Islands transfer plan “an act of great stupidity,” warning China could exploit the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0dramatically reversed course Tuesday on a U.K. plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while warning it could jeopardize U.S. access to the Diego Garcia military base.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reversal highlights what a defense expert called a “new Trump Doctrine” before linking the president’s opposition to the Chagos deal with his Greenland push and citing fears Mauritius could later back out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing on his Truth Social platform Tuesday, Trump called the U.K.\u2019s Chagos decision “an act of great stupidity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Shockingly, our \u2018brilliant\u2019 NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a\u00a0vital U.S. Military Base<\/a>, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,” Trump wrote. “There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump calls the United Kingdom’s Chagos Islands transfer plan “an act of great stupidity,” warning China could exploit the deal. President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0dramatically reversed course Tuesday on a U.K. plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while warning it could jeopardize U.S. access to the Diego Garcia military base. Trump\u2019s reversal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}