Trump's Irish Reunification Comment Stirs Political Debate During Dublin Visit

When an American president travels abroad for sport and finds himself seated across from a nation's leaders, the words he chooses carry the weight of history whether he intends them to or not. During a Dublin visit centered on a golf tournament, President Trump told Irish President Connolly and Prime Minister Martin that Irish reunification would be 'fantastic'—a casual phrase dropped into one of the most enduring and contested questions in the British Isles. The remark, unsolicited and unguarded, reminded the world that a president's offhand preferences are never truly private, and that the d