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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T21:07:45.000Z",
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  "tags": [
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    "‘They will do as I say!’ Donald Trump claims Israel would have been ‘eviscerated’ without him",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nUS President Donald Trump has issued a blunt verdict on the new MP for Makerfield Andy Burnham.\n\nSpeaking to GB News at the White House, Mr Trump declared that he \"doesn't know anything\" about him.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe admitted: \"I don't know anything.\n\n\"I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town? I hear he's extremely liberal.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nWhen asked if he was to be the first he visited internationally, he answered: \"No, but I think we're probably of a different persuasion.\"\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief then hinted at what may be an early wedge issue between himself and the potential next Prime Minister.\n\nDiscussing the state of the oil industry in the UK, the President revealed he has had \"every oil company come to see him\" about having access to Britain's oil fields, declaring that the country was \"dying\".\n\nHe said: \"I have had every oil company come to see me. 'Sir, could you give us access to the UK? We would do anything to drill in the North Sea'.\n\n\"The amazing thing is they buy their oil from Norway, which gets the offer of the North Sea. Think of it, and they pay a big premium.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Norway's got now $2trillion in the bank and UK is dying, so they should open up the North Sea, and it's an easy one. And a lot of good things are going to happen.\"\n\nWhile the two men have never met, the former Greater Manchester Mayor has previously taken to social media to hit out at the President.\n\nOn January 6, 2021, Mr Burnham said \"any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now\".\n\nAnd the State Department, led by Marco Rubio, released a statement announcing it would \"look forward to continued co-operation with his successor\".\n\nThe former Greater Manchester Mayor has previously congratulated socialist mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani after his election, adding the pair could \"collaborate on reducing the cost of living\".\n\n### DONALD TRUMP - READ MORE:\n\n\n\n\n  * 'I wish him well!' Donald Trump swipes at Keir Starmer one more time after PM finally resigns\n  * ‘The most impressive plane I've ever seen!’ Ben Leo tours Donald Trump’s new Air Force One\n  * ‘They will do as I say!’ Donald Trump claims Israel would have been ‘eviscerated’ without him\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBut Mr Mamdani and Mr Trump have a surprisingly friendly relationship - marked by a press conference where the President admitted he agreed with the socialist on a \"lot more than I would have thought\".\n\nAnd the President seemed to get on with Sir Keir Starmer on a personal level, describing him as a \"lovely man\" before criticising his energy and migration policy.\n\nIn Mr Burnham's victory speech, he declared Britain must turn \"away from the path that takes us to a divided, dark politics of the kind we see in the United States\".\n\nHe said a similar phrase on the campaign trail where he said the US had a \"polarised, poisonous politics where people in communities don't work together anymore\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAnd last year, told the London Economic the President was bringing instability \"to the US and the world\".\n\nWhen asked about Mr Burnham's previous comments about the President, a spokeswoman for the White House pointed to the decline of European cities.\n\nWhite House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told CBS News: \"Left-wing policies of unfettered migration and destructive globalism have made once-great European cities unrecognizable – allowing criminals to run wild and antisemitism to thrive.\n\n\"President Trump saved the United States from such destruction when he was elected, and he has rightfully warned other world leaders that western civilization will continue to erode if they don't quickly reverse course\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Donald Trump delivers blunt first verdict on Andy Burnham to GB News"
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