{"id":378346,"date":"2026-09-13T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-defends-irish-unification-comments-amid-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:00:19","slug":"trump-defends-irish-unification-comments-amid-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-defends-irish-unification-comments-amid-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends Irish unification comments amid backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/cs_SGK7GBCM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump defends Irish unification comments amid backlash\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cs_SGK7GBCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said he &quot;loved&quot; the reaction to his comments on Irish unification. 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He spoke to ITV News Europe Editor James Mates briefly as he walked to the first tee on his golf resort in Doonbeg, County Clare. Answering a question from the press during his meeting with the Irish Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-378346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump defends Irish unification comments amid backlash | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump defends Irish unification comments amid backlash for free, here on News ISC. 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