American presidents don’t typically get into feuds with British princes. However, neither Donald Trump nor Prince Harry is typical of those positions.
The prince and his wife, Meghan Markle, decamped to the United States over five years ago and have devoted their energies to charity and showbiz deals with Netflix and Spotify.
Trump — who for years was known to harbor a crush on Harry’s late mother, Diana Princess of Wales — has, for some reason, decided to get into a feud with Harry and Meghan. Trump told the New York Post last week that he is not interested in deporting Harry, as the Heritage Foundation is suing claiming, per the newspaper, that “he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa.” Harry admitted to using cocaine and other drugs in his bestselling memoir, Spare.
“I don’t want to do that,” Trump said of the prince. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’ https://t.co/3r6dEuGiue pic.twitter.com/21UnPZJsfI
— New York Post (@nypost) February 8, 2025
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Markle once ripped Trump on a panel show in 2016, when she was best known as an actress and not yet together with Prince Harry.
Harry appeared unhappy with the comments despite the assurances that he wouldn’t be kicked out of the country. The prince delivered a speech this week at the Invictus Games in Canada. It did not mention Trump by name, as British Royals typically do not involve themselves directly in electoral politics, but it was one of those situations in which a public figure made a generalized appeal to public decency, and it was interpreted as a shot at Trump.
Here’s the full beautiful & emotive speech from Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex, founder of Invictus Games, father of Archie & Lili and husband of Meghan.😍#InvictusGames2025 pic.twitter.com/wHREuYTsPB
— Zandi Sussex (@ZandiSussex) February 8, 2025
Prince Harry referred in the speech to the “courage, values and humanity” on display at the Invictus Games, “when there is no shortage of crises, no absence of uncertainty, no lack of weak moral character in the world.”
“In this moment of difficulty and division in many parts of the world, we gather here in a spirit of unity,” Harry said at the Games, which he founded in 2014 as an athletic competition for wounded veterans.
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