{"id":70567,"date":"2026-04-01T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/first-thing-trump-launches-tirade-against-europe-for-not-joining-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:00:49","slug":"first-thing-trump-launches-tirade-against-europe-for-not-joining-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/first-thing-trump-launches-tirade-against-europe-for-not-joining-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some European countries have blocked Israeli and US planes from moving weapons through their airspace. Plus, a rocket heads to the moon on Wednesday for the first time since 1972<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/trump-launches-tirade-against-european-countries-not-joining-iran-war\">launched a tirade against European countries<\/a> that refused to join the Israel-US war against Iran, calling out the UK and France, as transatlantic relations continue their downward spiral and the war wreaks havoc on the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What pushback has there been from Europe?<\/strong> France has blocked Israeli planes from flying weapons through its airspace, while Italy refused last-minute permission for US bombers to land in Sicily. Spain has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/30\/spain-closes-airspace-to-us-military-over-iran-war-widening-rift-with-us\">denied the US use of its bases and airspace<\/a>. The UK, however, has allowed the US to use its bases for a war that its <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/commons\/2026-03-02\/debates\/C3BE6001-08B4-4DF8-8193-A4BFF0C57E9B\/MiddleEast\">government says is illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest updates,<\/strong> follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/middle-east-live\/live\/2026\/apr\/01\/iran-live-updates-trump-claims-war-will-end-rubio-nato-relationship\">our live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/first-thing-trump-launches-tirade-against-europe-for-not-joining-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some European countries have blocked Israeli and US planes from moving weapons through their airspace. Plus, a rocket heads to the moon on Wednesday for the first time since 1972 Good morning. Donald Trump has launched a tirade against European countries that refused to join the Israel-US war against Iran, calling out the UK and &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/first-thing-trump-launches-tirade-against-europe-for-not-joining-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}