A transatlantic row erupted after Donald Trump warned Britain that the US “won’t be there to help you any more” if the conflict with Iran continues to choke global energy supplies.

In a blistering social media post, the US president told countries that refused to join American strikes on Iran to secure oil themselves — directly targeting the government of Keir Starmer. The outburst comes as the closure of a critical Middle East shipping route pushes fuel prices sharply higher across Europe.

‘Go Take It Yourself’: Trump’s Message to Allies

Posting online, Trump mocked Britain for declining to join the US campaign against Iran and urged the UK to reopen the blocked energy route on its own.

“All those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz… go there and just TAKE IT,” he wrote. He added that nations like Britain must “start learning how to fight for yourself”.

The comments sharply escalate tensions with key allies already struggling with the economic fallout of the war.

Pentagon Joins the Attack on Britain

The criticism quickly spread inside the US administration.

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth questioned why the Royal Navy was not taking a larger role in protecting the vital shipping corridor.

“It is not just the United States Navy,” he said. “Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy prepared to do things like that.”

Energy Shock Hits Britain Hard

The political clash comes as the war’s economic impact intensifies.

The International Monetary Fund has warned the UK faces one of the biggest economic shocks from the conflict due to its heavy reliance on gas-fired power.

Oil prices have surged past $100 a barrel, the first time since 2022, as Iran effectively controls access to the Strait of Hormuz — the route for roughly a fifth of global oil shipments.

Households Already Feeling the Pain

The ripple effects are already hitting British households.

Average energy bills are forecast to rise by nearly £300 from July, while drivers have paid hundreds of millions more for fuel since the war began. Diesel prices have jumped by around 40p per litre, with petrol climbing 20p.

Downing Street says Starmer will convene an emergency COBRA meeting to assess the crisis.

A Deepening Rift Across the Atlantic

The clash is the latest flashpoint in a growing feud between Washington and London over the war.

Starmer has insisted Britain’s priority is de-escalation, even after allowing the US to use RAF bases for limited defensive operations. Trump, however, has repeatedly accused NATO allies of failing to step up.

With energy markets in turmoil and military tensions rising, the diplomatic fallout now threatens to deepen the conflict far beyond the battlefield.

Trump tells UK ‘go get your own oil’ and warns US ‘won’t help you any more’ in latest tirade over Iran war | The Independent

First he slags off starmer then wonders why he wonthelp

A prominent conservative journalist and commentator was taken aback by President Donald Trump’s latest rant Tuesday morning, going as far as to say that the president’s remarks marked “the beginning of the end of the U.S. empire.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump erupted at the United Kingdom over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran. Saagar Enjeti, a conservative journalist, commentator and podcast host, said Trump’s rant marked a major turning point for the United States.

“This unironically then is the beginning of the end of the US empire,” Saagar wrote Tuesday in a social media post on X to their more than 514,000 followers. “Militarily unable to collapse the Iranian regime from the air, sparking a global energy crisis for critical US allies and then telling them to go and fix the crisis we created.”

Conservative commentator says Trump's recent remarks spell 'beginning of the end of the US'

They’re plenty in the North Sea but are lazy to drill

20 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They’re plenty in the North Sea but are lazy to drill

England is finished we should offer asylum

2 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They’re plenty in the North Sea but are lazy to drill

Not financially worth it. The oil is a 'mature basin' with dwindling reserves, making it more and more expensive to extract.

So the Americans are begging the UK, France, Italy and Spain to help them because they lack the capablities themselves (because they scrapped all the boats that could do it 6 weeks earlier) to demine the straits, or provide appropriate escort duties., to counter a 3rd world, second rate power who's newest tanks are hotrod M60s and Chieftains. How are they going to do against China? The accumulation of fluff in their aircraft carrier tumble dryers needs looking at as well.

Latest is that the Americans have asked Poland to lend them some Patriot missiles..... What bull<deleted> planners didn't take any notice of the last 4 years in Ukraine, and what's happening there?

We were getting our own oil without much trouble until +/-1 month ago.

President Trump's Truth social post..

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116323481956698353#:~:text=Donald,PM

All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

I fell of my chair laughing, talk about humiliating Starmer!!

What is even better, he sent the "Go Get Your Own Oil" post just one hour before Buckingham Palace announced King Charles’s state visit to the U.S. It’s a classic move to ensure the King arrives in a position of "diplomatic debt."......🤣

These are the words of a blazing imbecile who has no idea the power of the message, and is diminishing America in such a dramatic fashion on a daily basis, this man is a human crisis.

The words of a president are critically important; as Lincoln once said, there is a world of difference between a horse-chestnut and a chestnut horse. But Trump has yet to address the American people in a serious way about his war aims.

Traditionally, presidents would build a case for a war in a somber address, delivered from the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office. But nowadays, presidential utterances are more likely to come from Mar-a-Lago, which is not exactly what Churchill meant when he said “we shall fight them on the beaches.” Trump was at his Florida retreat when he announced the war, while wearing a baseball hat, with a video released in the middle of the night of 28 February.

Since then, each interjection has added to the muddle, with shifting statements that routinely contradict each other or simply deny reality.

The war is about to end … or it may last a long time.

We are not afraid to send boots on the ground … but then again, we may not.

The threat from Iran was “imminent” … but it might have taken 10 years to mature, as US intelligence suggested.

We “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear stockpiles in 2025 … or maybe we didn’t?

Their nuclear materials remain undetected, and it’s absurd to claim, as Trump has, that a “regime change” has already taken place.

We destroyed “100% of Iran’s military capability” … except for its ability to use drones, missiles, mines and speedboats to shut down the strait of Hormuz.

Victory will come as news to the American people, who were just asked to pay $200bn toward an ongoing war effort. It will also surprise Iran, still lobbing missiles, and threatening to set invaders “on fire”. The two sides remain far apart, with tankers idling in the strait of Hormuz, while the regime ignores

Trump’s threats. In advance of the negotiations, Iran is demanding reparations from the US and ongoing control of the strait – a long way from “unconditional surrender”.

The situation has been especially difficult for the United Kingdom, traditionally America’s closest ally, and the whisperer between the US and Europe. Trump has insulted its prime minister, Keir Starmer, repeatedly, as “no Churchill”, and in so doing, he has badly damaged the special relationship that Churchill did so much to will into existence with his oratory.

According to a recent poll, only 30% of Britons believe that the special relationship exists any more – a 17 percentage point decline over the past year.

That is a calamity for both countries, and a gift to Putin, who is likely to emerge the real victor of the Iran war. To keep oil prices from climbing, Trump has waived sanctions on Russian oil, greatly replenishing its depleted coffers and giving it the resources it badly needs to continue its flailing war in Ukraine. In the meantime,

Britons are struggling to pay catastrophic prices for gas and heating – a wartime consequence Trump never bothered to explain to them.

When the president was recently asked about a possible end date for the war, he replied:

“We’re very far ahead of schedule,” then undermined his own response by adding: “I don’t know, it depends. Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else’s.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/trump-words-iran-war-churchill?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

10 hours ago, bannork said:

A prominent conservative journalist and commentator was taken aback by President Donald Trump’s latest rant Tuesday morning, going as far as to say that the president’s remarks marked “the beginning of the end of the U.S. empire.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump erupted at the United Kingdom over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran. Saagar Enjeti, a conservative journalist, commentator and podcast host, said Trump’s rant marked a major turning point for the United States.

“This unironically then is the beginning of the end of the US empire,” Saagar wrote Tuesday in a social media post on X to their more than 514,000 followers. “Militarily unable to collapse the Iranian regime from the air, sparking a global energy crisis for critical US allies and then telling them to go and fix the crisis we created.”

Conservative commentator says Trump's recent remarks spell 'beginning of the end of the US'

To be fair the US has been in a state of decline for at least 30 years, but Trump has precipitated that decline quite dramatically, and has aided our enemies to the point where some could call him a traitor to the nation.

Trump demonstrates his ignorance again.

The illegal Israeli/US war of aggression against Iran has delivered exactly the energy crisis that was predicted.

Trump can TACO but while the straights of Hormuz remain closed, the international market price of oil will remain high.

This includes the price paid in the U.S.

The idiot broke the market, now he’s trying to hand off the mess.

U.S. standing on the world stage obliterated, and he’s not done yet.

Gangsters in the White House...

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You posted an image of Trump calling you a liar. Why would you do that?

P.S. nobody read that drivel, I mean no one.

1 minute ago, ArchieBunker said:

You posted an image of Trump calling you a liar. Why would you do that?

P.S. nobody read that drivel, I mean no one.

Yeh, stick with pictures, don’t strain your brain with reading.

5 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

President Trump's Truth social post..

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116323481956698353#:~:text=Donald,PM

All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

I fell of my chair laughing, talk about humiliating Starmer!!

What is even better, he sent the "Go Get Your Own Oil" post just one hour before Buckingham Palace announced King Charles’s state visit to the U.S. It’s a classic move to ensure the King arrives in a position of "diplomatic debt."......🤣

Re suggestion #1: Why should the world reward a nation which seems hell-bent on instigating conflict and causing economic chaos everywhere in the world?

Re suggestion #2: The UK - like many other nations - had no trouble sourcing oil until +/- 1 month ago. Why should the UK and others now attempt to punish Iran for an illegal war started by Trump?

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Yeh, stick with pictures, don’t strain your brain with reading.

Precisely the same that his political master does, pictures and diagrams are much easier to figure out than actual words, which can be very complicated things.

10 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They’re plenty in the North Sea but are lazy to drill

The north sea oil basin is split between the UK and Norway, and most of the oil from the UK side has been extracted most of the remaining is Norways

2 minutes ago, RayC said:

Re suggestion #1: Why should the world reward a nation which seems hell-bent on instigating conflict and causing economic chaos everywhere in the world?

Re suggestion #2: The UK - like many other nations - had no trouble sourcing oil until +/- 1 month ago. Why should the UK and others now attempt to punish Iran for an illegal war started by Trump?

#1 You summed up Iran nicely

#2 The UK like many other nations is hypocritical. It facilitates corruption, chases after arms sales, looks the other way when there are human rights offences, and doesn't care about the environmental damage that attaches to its oil, all while carrying on about how ethical and proper it is. Hoorah Harry.

We need Greta here.

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Yeh, stick with pictures, don’t strain your brain with reading.

You read that trash? Now I understand what the problem is. Just a piece of advice here, if you value self preservation then read a comic book instead of drivel rants that only offer self demoralizing conflicts.

23 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

President Trump's Truth social post..

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116323481956698353#:~:text=Donald,PM

All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

I fell of my chair laughing, talk about humiliating Starmer!!

What is even better, he sent the "Go Get Your Own Oil" post just one hour before Buckingham Palace announced King Charles’s state visit to the U.S. It’s a classic move to ensure the King arrives in a position of "diplomatic debt."......🤣

Starmer doesn't need humiliating he does it to Himself on a daily basis!!

4 minutes ago, ArchieBunker said:

You read that trash? Now I understand what the problem is. Just a piece of advice here, if you value self preservation then read a comic book instead of drivel rants that only offer self demoralizing conflicts.

Problem is...with whom? Do you understand why you are appearing to rant here? Is that something to do with "self preservation" or is it simply "trash talking"?

1 minute ago, IsmeUno said:

Problem is...with whom? Do you understand why you are appearing to rant here? Is that something to do with "self preservation" or is it simply "trash talking"?

Are you ok? You appear to be affected.

1 minute ago, ArchieBunker said:

Are you ok? You appear to be affected.

By your post? Yes, bemused.

5 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Starmer doesn't need humiliating he does it to Himself on a daily basis!!

Starmer keeping the UK out of this illegal Israeli/US war of aggression is popular with voters.

You send your own kids to die for Israel and US war crimes, Brits have more sense.

16 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

#1 You summed up Iran nicely

#2 The UK like many other nations is hypocritical. It facilitates corruption, chases after arms sales, looks the other way when there are human rights offences, and doesn't care about the environmental damage that attaches to its oil, all while carrying on about how ethical and proper it is. Hoorah Harry.

We need Greta here.

All nations are hypocritical but the UK - unlike the US - has not instigated an illegal war in Iran in the past month.

That's the key difference here.

30 minutes ago, RayC said:

Re suggestion #1: Why should the world reward a nation which seems hell-bent on instigating conflict and causing economic chaos everywhere in the world?

Re suggestion #2: The UK - like many other nations - had no trouble sourcing oil until +/- 1 month ago. Why should the UK and others now attempt to punish Iran for an illegal war started by Trump?

Before the March 4 closure of the Strait, the UK relied on West Asia for at least 50% of its jet fuel imports.

Since the UK cut off Russian supplies in 2022, it shifted its dependency entirely to the Middle East.

Saying "it was fine until it broke" is like saying a bridge with a 50% crack was "fine" until a truck drove over it. The structural weakness was always there; the Strait closure just exposed it.

As Marco Rubio pointed out, the "war" was a preemptive strike to dismantle a drone and missile shield that was about to make Iran "unattackable" while they finished their nuclear program.

While the UK debates the "legality" of the strike, it is simultaneously sending 1,000 troops and Sky Sabre air defense systems to Saudi Arabia to defend against Iranian attacks . If the war is "illegal," why is the UK providing the "shield" for the allies fighting it?

Trump tells UK to ‘get your own oil'

Trump's message to the UK (and other NATO countries) was to just go to Iran and to take their oil by force of arms.

Invading a country by force of arms and taking their resources IS the definition of an "unprovoked war of aggression."
It is EXACTLY what Hitler did to Poland in 1939 while at least feigning a provocation from Poland (see The Gleiwitz Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident). Trump on the other hand had Witkoft and Kushner in "negotiations" with Iran which were "going well" when they made "decapitation strikes" on Iran - TWICE. These incidents of using negotions to attack an opponent is called "perfidy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy At this point it will be almost impossible to enter negotiations with the Iranian again as there is no longer any trust of the Trump Administration (nor should there be). Trump, his Defense Secretary, and his Secretary of State as well as Pentagon figures are all guilty of waging a "unprovoked war of aggression" on Iran which is THE PRIMARY reason Nazis were hung in Nuremberg. The Nazi atrocities, like the targeted killing civilians (Minab school children in Trump's case) sealed the fates of the Nuremberg accused.

So now Trump is urging the UK (and by extension all NATO countries who refuse to get involved) to engage in their own unprovoked war of aggression on Iran:
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT."

The US under Trump is now engaged in the EXACT type of aggression that they accuse Russia, China, Iran, and the DPRK of engaging in or threatening to engage in:
Russia is going to take Europe
China is going to take all of Asia
Iran will take all of West Asia
DPRK will take South Korea and Japan

That's what the US accuses it's "enemies" of planning - which are fabrications and demonization’s - while they themselves engage in unprovoked wars of aggression:
Yugoslavia under Clinton
Iraq under Bush
Venezuela, Iran, with threats toward Cuba and Greenland under Trump

The United States is a rogue nation engaged in successive campaigns of aggression while accusing other nations of the very aggression that the US engages in.
And now Trump tells the UK to just "TAKE IT" (the Iranian oil) by force of arms.

When Trump first came to office in Jan 2025, I laughed at those who compared Trump to Hitler and other Fascist aggressions. Now I'm solidly in their camp. Trump's acts of aggression now places him on par with Hitler and places the US on par with 1930s Germany - and Trump urges NATO countries to join him in his campaigns of global aggression to obtain resource by force of arms. This needs to stop before it cascades into a global war of aggression aimed at all of the countries that the US wants to conquer by force.

24 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Starmer keeping the UK out of this illegal Israeli/US war of aggression is popular with voters.

You send your own kids to die for Israel and US war crimes, Brits have more sense.

You are inaccurate, to say the least.

The UK is deploying 'Sky Sabre' defense systems to KSA, also 1000 British soldiers are being sent to KSA, Qatar and Bahrain.

You can't claim you aren't in the war when your troops are literally operating the 'shield' for the nations Trump is using as a 'sword'. If a missile from Iran hits a Sky Sabre battery in KSA tomorrow, the staying out evaporates instantly.

Starmers favorability has tanked, he matches the record lows of the Liz Truss era.

While 70% of voters don't want him to join the offensive, only 21% think he is doing a good job in handling the conflict.

Voters are furious about the economic fallout, 84% are very concerned about the skyrocketing energy and fuel prices caused by the war he is failing to help end.

Starmer has granted, after a U turn, the USA permission to use British bases for 'defensive' strikes on Iranian missile sites.

In Iran's eyes there is no difference between a defensive launch and an offensive one. By providing the launchpad Starmer has already put a target on the UK's back.

16 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Before the March 4 closure of the Strait, the UK relied on West Asia for at least 50% of its jet fuel imports.

Since the UK cut off Russian supplies in 2022, it shifted its dependency entirely to the Middle East.

Saying "it was fine until it broke" is like saying a bridge with a 50% crack was "fine" until a truck drove over it. The structural weakness was always there; the Strait closure just exposed it.

As Marco Rubio pointed out, the "war" was a preemptive strike to dismantle a drone and missile shield that was about to make Iran "unattackable" while they finished their nuclear program.

While the UK debates the "legality" of the strike, it is simultaneously sending 1,000 troops and Sky Sabre air defense systems to Saudi Arabia to defend against Iranian attacks . If the war is "illegal," why is the UK providing the "shield" for the allies fighting it?

The Official Nazi Justification For The "Pre-emptive" Invasion of Poland

The German government publicly claimed that Poland had been the aggressor and that the invasion was a limited "defensive" or "retaliatory" action to:

• Protect ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) living in Poland from alleged persecution and violence.

• Respond to supposed Polish "atrocities," border incidents, and attacks on German territory or citizens.

• Secure the "Free City of Danzig" (Gdańsk) and the Polish Corridor, which Hitler had been demanding through diplomatic pressure (and which he portrayed as unfinished business from the Treaty of Versailles).

Nazi propaganda had spent months amplifying claims of Polish mistreatment of the German minority in western Poland, including exaggerated or fabricated stories of massacres, rapes, and expulsions.

Now compare that to the Trump cabinet's excuses to invade. If you list them you'll see that Trump, Rubio, and Hegseth's accusations are no more valid than Hitler's accusations used as his excuse to invade Poland. The US has been repeating the same propaganda that "Iran is two weeks from a nuke" for the three decades. Other well worn propaganda points used are that "Iran is an evil authoritarian dictatorship who murders its own people." You hear that same porkie every time the US is getting ready to overthrow a country (Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, and soon Cuba).

Reality:
- The CIA overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953.
- Iranians took back control in the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
- And since then the US has been trying to destabilize Iran with the intension of overthrowing the government and taking back control of the country and its oil. It has ALWAYS been about controlling Iran's OIL!
The constant demonization of Iran is simple propaganda used during the 47 year information war wages against Iran. The Trump administration took the information war to another level and used it as the excuse to engage in an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran with the explicit intent to "TAKE IT," i.e., steal their oil reserves and project power into the Persian Gulf. Up next? Pushing power projection into Russia and China from the Persian Gulf region and engaging in Anti-access/area denial (or A2/AD) aimed at Russia and China as the United States targets them with unprovoked aggression using proxies in those regions.

All of Rubio's rhetoric is propaganda and part of the US information war waged against Iran.