Trump Breaks U.S. Neutrality, Calls Irish Unification 'Fantastic'

For nearly thirty years, American neutrality on Irish unification served as quiet mortar in the architecture of peace — a deliberate silence that helped hold together a fragile accord built on the ruins of decades of violence. On September 12, 2026, Donald Trump broke that silence, calling Irish unification 'fantastic' and becoming the first sitting American president in a generation to openly favor an outcome that Britain opposes and Northern Ireland's unionists fear. The Good Friday Agreement was designed to leave the question of partition to the people of the island alone, through democrati