Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump ‘keeps us safe’

On Wednesday 1 October, everyone’s least favorite invertebrate PM, Keir Starmer, recieved a grilling from Sky News’ Beth Rigby. Her line of attack focused on Starmer’s hypocritical refusal to call out US president Trump’s flagrant racist.

Rigby posted a clip of the interview to Twitter – let’s have a look, shall we?

Q: Trump said Khan’s driving London to Sharia law. Is he?
PM: No. That's nonsense
Q: Is it racist to accuse a Muslim Mayor of driving London to Sharia law
PM: I'm not going down road of discussing whether things said by others are racist or not
ME: U literally just have w Farage pic.twitter.com/h8P7oIQbjh

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) October 1, 2025

Simple questions, slimy answers

Rigby asked Starmer a simple question:

Donald Trump said that, under Sadiq Khan, London is being driven to Sharia law. Is it?

Starmer quickly replied “of course it’s not”, and called the suggestion “nonsense”. However, Rigby ploughed on:

Isn’t it racist to accuse a Muslim mayor of driving London to Sharia law?

The PM performed his usual cop-out act, trying to shut down the line of questioning:

 I’m not going to start down the road of discussing whether things said by others are racist or not.

Unfortunately for Starmer (and Rigby, for that matter), his interviewer had actually been listening to the things he’d been saying ten minutes ago. She pointed out:

Well you just discussed Nigel Farage having a racist policy, so you literally are discussing that.

The comments section of Rigby’s video is littered with armchair politicians chiming in with questions like ‘Well what did you want him to say?’ Some went as far as accusing Rigby of fishing for clickbait gotchas.

Yeah, whatever, Trump is exactly the kind of megalomaniac who would turn a factual statement about his racism into an international incident. Can’t expect a politician to call a fascist fash, can we?

The warmonger…

However, Starmer went well beyond just slithering around the question. Rigby’s mistake, as it turns out, was trying to prod the PM into showing an ounce of feeling:

Does it not bother you when he says things that you know are not truthful, and you won’t actually call it out?

So, naturally, sir Keir turned the conversation onto… singing the praises of the US for keeping us safe:

Well what matters to me is that the relationship between the US and the UK on defence and security and intelligence is the closest relationship in the world. It is what helps to keep us safe in this country. And therefore of course I work closely with the United States president, of course I have a good personal relationship with him. That is good for our country.

Just so that we’re clear on that United States we apparently depend on for our peace and security, lets take a quick look at a rundown of the US war-footing under the Trump regime:

• Trump rebranded the Defense Department as the Department of War. Completely accurate, sure, but hardly the actions of a peaceful country.
• He used government forces to invade US cities controlled by Democrats, on the grounds of ‘tackling illegal immigration’. A California Judge recently ruled the use of troops in LA illegal, being in breach of the Posse Comitatus Act.
• His army fired upon a Venezuelan civilian vessel in the Carribean sea, killing 11 people. Trump tried, without evidence, to paint the crew as “narcoterrorists”. Reports say that the boat had turned back and was fleeing at the time.
• US secretary of state Marco Rubio said that America was ready to “blow up” gangs on foreign soil.
• Newly crowned ‘war secretary’ Pete Hegseth called on generals to ignore the “stupid rules of engagement”. Who’d want an ally that didn’t shoot civilians, right?
• Trump told the UN that he had “ended seven un-endable wars”. This is simply a lie, and a ludicrous one at that.
• The US national security team mistakenly added a political journalist to a chat group about an impending military strike on Yemen.

…And the coward

This list is disturbingly far from exhaustive, but listing all of the Trump administrations warmongering and intelligence blunders would genuinely exceed the guidelines for article length here at the Canary. In fact, all of these points took place in this year alone.

So, yes – it’s not like anybody expected Starmer to show some backbone and call Trump a racist. He was never going to stick up for Khan, his own party member. But let’s face it people: the US under Trump is at war with itself, the countries around it, and basic principles of common decency in combat, such as they may be.

Stating that the US keeps Britain safe – or anybody, for that matter – may just be the most cowardly lie Starmer ever told.

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