Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin nodded along Tuesday in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump compared Iran’s hard-line government to Nazi Germany, but he later nudged his host to start wrapping up the war with Tehran.
“These are horrendous people. These are the worst people, going back to Hitler, right?” the wartime American commander in chief said on a day when his differences with NATO and other allies over his Iran war boiled over. “And there’s been nothing close.”
As the Iran conflict rages, Martin had the awkward assignment of sitting beside Trump as part of the annual St. Patrick’s Day tradition of the American and Irish leaders celebrating at the White House and Capitol. His approach was to pick his spots, mixing praise with pushback.
