{"id":2000104094,"date":"2026-03-04T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000104094"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:23:37","slug":"trump-threatens-to-cut-off-all-trade-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-all-trade-with-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to &#8220;cut off all trade&#8221; with Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don&#8217;t want anything to do with Spain,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the beginning of his talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;By the way I&#8217;m not happy with the UK either,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;This is not Winston Churchill that we&#8217;re dealing with.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Parliament on Monday that Britain is not joining the U.S.-Israeli &#8220;offensive strikes&#8221; on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merz is the first foreign leader to meet Trump in person since the U.S. administration launched large-scale airstrikes against Iran on Saturday morning. The two leaders said the Iran operation will be a major topic during their closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/08dc-assess-01-khfv-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000104096\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to &#8220;cut off all trade with Spain&#8221; for Spain&#8217;s refusal to allow the U.S. military to use its base for attacks on Iran.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to &#8220;cut off all trade with Spain&#8221; for Spain&#8217;s refusal to allow the U.S. military to use its base for attacks on Iran, while saying he is not happy with Britain either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000104095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,69,101],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000104094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","tag-internationl","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000104095,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":1000,"height":563,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","width":300,"height":169},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","width":768,"height":432},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","width":1000,"height":563},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7517ce595465abe61f52d42d9340b0fanew.png","width":1000,"height":563}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000104094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000104097,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104094\/revisions\/2000104097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000104095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000104094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000104094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000104094"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000104094"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000104094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}