Everybody has an opinion on what Taoiseach should say to US president during his upcoming visit to the White House
British prime minister Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheál Martin at a reception in the Museum of Liverpool on Wednesday before a UK-Ireland Summit. Photograph: Cameron Smith/PA WireYou should go in there with your head held high and have it out with Donald Trump. Give him the ugly, unvarnished truth. Don’t hold back.
But make no mistake, Enda promised he would not confine himself to matters domestic. Not with the new president’s early actions and pronouncements causing great anxiety in Europe and beyond. He would not be found wanting.What he meant was that this was an unsettling geopolitical issue and serious words were needed, so he would have to play some “senior hurling” with Trump in Washington.
He was hailed for making a very brave intervention, but he did it while pouring buckets of plámás over his vain host. But that earlier encounter was before Trump and his people went full-scale doolally, to use a diplomatic term. Fast forward to this week and the man-baby-in-chief is starting into a second term. The mood now is every bit as bad as it was the first time and then some.
During Leaders’ Questions on Wednesday, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald asked him to “set out much more clearly what exactly you will say on Ukraine and, in particular, on Gaza and the Palestinian question”.
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