Nish Kumar

So the UK has controlled the Chagos Islands since 1965, when the UK purchased the islands from Mauritius.

Critics of the deal say it potentially opens up the region to China's fishing fleet, which the country uses to gather intelligence.

The deal is in its final stages of making its way through Parliament.

Trump's criticism of the deal has been jumped on by Kami Baden-Ark and figures within the Reform Party who were critical of it to begin with.

Again, it sometimes feels like we're wasting our time when we point out that Trump has been hypocritical because it's sort of,

suggests that we've set a standard that he has shown no interest in meeting whatsoever.

You know, I remember in the kind of 2000s, there was a real vogue of trying to point out when politicians were being hypocritical.

Trump lies moment to moment.

So it does feel a bit redundant to say, well, actually, I'll think you'll find you said that you were in favour of this.

He doesn't give a fuck.

He will literally say...

whatever is going through his head at that moment, he has no problem in contradicting himself.

I mean, I think that there is a really serious conversation to be had about how the kind of international community reshapes itself around a US presidency that has no interest in engaging directly with it and is in certain instances going to be a hostile actor in those kind of international conversations.

And

Organizations like the European Union, a country like ours needs to start having conversations about what this looks like.

We're just a year into this presidency.

There are still three more to go.

Maybe more.

We currently don't know.

Again, if we're operating on a policy that we believe things when they're said directly to us, you know, just a couple of weeks ago, Steve Bannon was talking about Trump.