{"id":13772,"date":"2026-08-06T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=13772"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:17:34","slug":"ed-miliband-dodges-white-house-rebuke-for-trump-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/ed-miliband-dodges-white-house-rebuke-for-trump-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Miliband Dodges White House Rebuke for Trump Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ed Miliband<\/strong> travelled to the US capital on Wednesday for his first bilateral talks with <strong>Marco Rubio<\/strong> since taking office, where years-old insults he had levelled at <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> were conspicuously absent from their discussions, according to James Saunders writing in <em>GB News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary had previously avoided answering whether he still believed Trump was an &#8220;idiot, a racist and a misogynist&#8221; as he arrived for the meeting with Rubio. When pressed by reporters following the talks, Miliband confirmed the controversial statements had not surfaced during their conversation.<\/p>\n<p><em>No, and in fact they didn&#8217;t come up today,<\/em> Miliband told journalists, describing the discussions as productive.<\/p>\n<p>The British minister&#8217;s historical attacks on Trump extend beyond racial allegations. He has also accused the President of having a &#8220;peculiar&#8221; relationship with Russia, displaying &#8220;authoritarian tendencies&#8221;, and being a &#8220;self-confessed groper&#8221;\u2014remarks that reportedly sparked genuine anger within the administration prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Miliband attempted to emphasise the bilateral relationship by describing America as &#8220;our closest ally&#8221; during the press encounter. The sentiment was notably not reciprocated by Rubio, who delivered a straightforward readout of topics covered without any reference to the special relationship between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>The talks covered Iran, support for Ukraine against Russian aggression, the situation in Gaza, and prospects for a two-state solution addressing Israeli and Palestinian security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter marks a diplomatic success for Miliband, who appears to have avoided accountability for his intemperate language about the sitting American President\u2014statements that would ordinarily complicate high-level diplomatic engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/gbnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GB News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband&#8217;s past comments calling Trump a &#8220;racist idiot&#8221; were not raised during his 90-minute meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":13771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8312,196,11051,11052,298,48,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-13772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diplomatic-meeting","tag-donald-trump","tag-ed-miliband","tag-foreign-relations","tag-marco-rubio","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13780,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions\/13780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}