UK's Chagos Islands deal an 'act of great stupidity', Trump says

President Donald Trump has described the UK's agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to MauritiUS and lease back a key military base as a act of profound stupidity, months after he approved the move. The UK signed the £3. 4bn ($4. In May, 6bn) signed an agreement in which it would maintain control of a UK-American military base on the islands' biggest island, Diego Garcia. Former US Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised it as a monumental achievement, but Trump described the agreement as he very short line of National Security reasons for his efforts to purchase Greenland on Tuesday. We never compromise on our national security, a UK government spokesperson said.

Understandably, our 'brilliant' NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U. S. Base,

Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday morning. S. NO REASON WHATSOEVER, the Military Base in Mauritius, and it will do so FOR NO RESSON WHATEVER.

There is no doubt that China and Russia have suffered from this act of complete vulnerability.

The United Kingdom's giving up a large portion of land is an act of tremendous STUPIDITY,

he said, and it was another in a long line of National Security reasons why Greenland must be obtained.

In reaction,

a UK government spokesperson said it had intervened

because the base on Diego Garcia was under threat after court decisions undermined our position and would have barred it from operating as expected. The deal, they said, had secured the operation of the joint US-UK military base for decades, with robUSt provisions for retaining its unique capabilities intact and keeping our adversaries out,

and that allies, including the United States, had signed it.

I will of course have talks with the [Trump] administration in the coming days to alert them of the strength of this agreement and how it secures the base,

UK Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said later. The deal came after a long-running conflict between the UK and Mauritius - a former British colony - over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.

It's the right way to ensure the island's future,

Prime Minister Darren Jones said on BBC Breakfast, and I would not recommend that Britain be embarrassed or humiliated by any of those decisions.

There has been no official reaction from the Mauritian government. Gavin Glover, the attorney general, told the BBC that there will be "no comment at this moment.

In 1965, the Chagos Islands were separated from Mauritius, when Mauritiu was still a British colony. The islands were purchased for £3 million, but Mauritius has argued that it was unlawfully coerced to give them away as part of a deal to gain independence. The United Kingdom would hand over the islands' sovereignty to Mauritius under an agreement reached in May last year, while keeping control of the military base on Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia Garcia will lease for a period of 99 years, at an average cost of £101 million per year. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that it was crucial to shield the base from "malign power.

BecaUSe of the veto's implications for US security, the UK gave Trump a good vet before signing the contract. During ameeting with Sir Keir in the Oval Office last February, president Trump had criticized the scheme, but

I think we'll be able to go along with your country. In a statement released by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the May deal was signed in May, the US Secretary Of State MarcoRubio said in a tweet that Washington

welcomed It was long-term, stable, and efficient operation of the joint US, according to He. S.

The British military installation in Diego Garcia,

which he described as a critical asset for regional and global defense.President Trump expressed his admiration for this historic achievement during his White House visit with Prime Minister Starmer.

A government bill to implement the deal between the UK and Mauritian governments is now in its final stages. In a column on X on Tuesday, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that the prime minister now had

the opportunity to change course on Chagos.

Paying to surrender the Chagos Islands is not an act of stupidity,

she said, but it was complete self sabotage.Thank goodness Trump has vetoed the exchange of the Chagos islands,

reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has been a critic of the agreement, wrote in a column on X:

I thank God Trump has blocked the surrender of Sir Keir's speech to the US president has failed, Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey said.

The Chagos Agreement was sold as proof that the government could work with him,

Davey said in a post on X.

It's time for the government to stand up to Trump; mocking a bully never works. Emily Thornberry, a Labour MP and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today show that although the UK should welcome TruMP

seriously,it should not take her wordsliterally. She characterized her remarks on Tuesday as an example of protelling trolling, saying she was "in favour of staying calm and trying to keep this out.