Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

From a foreign policy point of view, I would like the Taoiseach's assurance that this Government, and all parties in this House, will do absolutely nothing between now and November to facilitate, encourage or promote assistance to Donald Trump's campaign to return to the White House. I think this is a priority. Under normal circumstances, one might say we have to maintain friendly relationships with the US but I am of the view, as I have said many times in this House, that Donald Trump is inciting the most dangerous political forces. He is encouraging a politics of hate and legitimising it across the world, along with people like Jair Bolsonaro and Viktor Orbán. These people are actively encouraging and legitimising hate, division, conflict and racism in a dangerous way that echoes the politics of the fascists of the 1930s. I think Biden is useless and I am not particularly promoting him either. However, it is in all of our interests that we do not do anything that could be used by Trump to assist his return to power.

Palestine, which Deputy MacDonald has just raised, is a case in point. Trump has given license to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to annex Palestinian territory, to manipulate in a dangerous way the situation in the Middle East, to renew assaults on Gaza and so on. It is another instance of the danger of Trump.

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