Trump Ireland visit latest: US president says he’d ‘love to see’ a united Ireland while in Dublin
US President Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and that he thinks it will happen eventually.
Talking to the press during a weekend visit to Dublin and his Irish golf course, the president called the idea a “fantastic thing”.
He added: “Well, I don’t want to cause any problems, but I will tell you, I’d love to see it unified,” He said after a meeting with Irish prime minister Micheal Martin in Dublin.
“The way I look at it, it’s going to happen eventually … I think it would be a fantastic thing. Now the UK will have something to say about it … but I think it would be a great thing.”
Trump made the statement after he held talks on Saturday with his Irish counterpart Catherine Connolly.
It comes during a weekend visit that’s more about a major golf tournament hosted on a course he owns on the country’s Atlantic coast. He will address the US and Irish business leaders at the US ambassador’s official residence in Dublin before traveling to his oceanfront golf club in Doonbeg, on the other side of the country, to watch the Irish Open.
