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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Andrew Gumbel

Trumpworld shows no tragedy is off limits as it exploits UK teen’s killing

posters of a young boy next to flowers
Tributes to Henry Nowak in Southampton on Saturday. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Over a breathtaking few days that spanned Saturday’s 82nd anniversary of D-day, senior Trump administration officials have trampled over diplomatic protocol to tear into Europe’s immigration and anti-racism policies and argue that such actions could end western civilization.

From the United States, Vice-President JD Vance and other administration officials jumped on a controversial murder case in Britain to accuse Keir Starmer’s government of lacking the Trump administration’s “political will and leadership” to stop mass migration and defend national sovereignty.

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