President Donald Trump delivered a blunt warning to Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham: the migrant crisis flooding Europe is “killing your country” — and it’s time to act.
Speaking from the Oval Office Wednesday, Trump revealed he pressed Burnham on border control during their recent call, contrasting America’s “tough” immigration enforcement with Europe’s collapsing defenses.
“Our borders are very strong and your borders are very weak, he’s got that problem.”
Trump didn’t hold back on the broader European disaster.
“They’re invading Europe,” the President said, describing waves of migrants flooding in from Africa, South America, and Asia. “And the UK is a prime suspect.”
The United Kingdom has a “huge immigration problem,” Trump said — with people from all over the world “just camping out in your country.”
Burnham inherited the mess from his predecessor Keir Starmer, who Trump noted “did very little about it.” But inheriting a disaster doesn’t excuse inaction — and Trump made clear the new Prime Minister will have to confront it.
When a British journalist pressed Trump on Burnham dodging the border issue so far, the President was direct: “He’s going to have to mention it because it’s killing your country.”
Burnham never faced voters in a national election — he took power through an internal Labour Party coup. That means he never had to trade border-control promises for votes. And given Labour’s track record of open-borders cheerleading, Trump’s skepticism seems well-earned.
The President’s warning extends beyond migration. Trump also confronted Burnham on Britain’s self-inflicted energy crisis — a disaster driven by years of net-zero ideology and a refusal to drill the North Sea oil and gas reserves sitting in UK territorial waters.
Britain suffers some of the highest electricity prices in the world, crushing consumers and driving factories offshore. Yet the UK refuses to tap its own energy wealth, choosing instead to import the same oil and gas from Norway — often at triple the cost — that Norway drills from the same North Sea basin Britain could access itself.
“Norway’s got trillions of dollars in the bank. It sells its oil from the North Sea, but Scotland has a better part of the North Sea… you’ve got areas of the North Sea that haven’t even been explored yet. You have one of the most valuable oil finds anywhere in the world, and if the United Kingdom would use it they would be a wealthy country again.”
Trump noted Burnham has promised to look into reopening North Sea drilling as part of his pledge to re-industrialize Britain. But the President isn’t holding his breath.
“Let’s see if it happens,” Trump said — a pointed reminder that British leaders have a habit of saying one thing and doing another when it comes to abandoning the green agenda.
Trump had the same conversation with Starmer and got nowhere. “I could not get Starmer to use it. It was incredible,” the President said, shaking his head at the refusal to tap what he called “the finest oil… the best oil anywhere on the planet.”
The message to Burnham — and Europe — is clear: America isn’t waiting for allies who won’t help themselves. Trump’s tone was friendly but firm: fix your borders, use your resources, or watch your country decline while others prosper.
Patriots already know what Trump thinks of leaders who ignore obvious solutions. Now the UK’s new Prime Minister knows it too.
.@POTUS on U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham: "He did say one very good thing. He said he's going to open up North Sea oil. If he does that, you're going to be a wealthy country… I was telling Prime Minister Starmer, 'Open up the North Sea!'" pic.twitter.com/W6JctteIAT
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 29, 2026
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— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 30, 2026
