TRUMP CARD Trump says Prince Harry has ‘enough problems with his wife’ in savage swipe at Meghan as he rules out deporting royal
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has ruled out deporting Prince Harry as he believes “he’s got enough problems with his wife”.
Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation, with the Heritage Foundation alleging he may have hidden past illegal drug use that would usually disqualify someone from obtaining a US visa.
The president told The New York Post however that he had no intention in chucking Harry out the country – because he’s got enough on his plate with Meghan Markle.
Slamming the Duchess of Sussex, Trump said: “I don’t want to do that.
“I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
Meghan has not hid her aversion for Trump in the past, having dubbed him “divisive” and “misogynistic”.
The president also called Harry “whipped,” and believes the Prince is “being led around by the nose”.
Trump went on to praise Harry’s estranged brother Prince William, who he held a private meeting with in Paris in December during the reopening ceremony of the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Trump added: “I think William is a great young man.”
Conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation had questioned why the duke was allowed into the US in 2020 following his reference to consumption of cocaine, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms in his book Spare.
Heritage’s Nile Gardiner told the Telegraph: “Anyone who applies to the United States has to be truthful on their application, and it is not clear that is the case with Prince Harry.”
The conservative think tank implies that Harry was given preferential treatment by the Biden administration after he and Meghan moved to California in 2020 following their split from the royal family.
The Duke of Sussex’s US visa application fight returned to court this week for the first time since Donald Trump returned to power.
US judge Carl Nichols previously ruled in September last year that the public did not have strong interest in the sharing of the prince’s immigration records.
Judge Nichols agreed to re-open the case and ordered lawyers for all parties to appear in court for a “motion for relief from judgement” hearing in the US capital on Wednesday.
The Heritage Foundation had asked for the judgement to be changed and it will be the first time the case has been in US courts since President Trump returned to office last month.
Prince Harry has been warned previously by the US president that he could face consequences if he lied about taking drugs on his US visa application.
President Trump said in a GB News interview with Nigel Farage in March last year that Harry should not receive preferential treatment.
Asked if the duke should have “special privileges” if he is found to have lied in his application, the president said: “No. We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.”
He also previously vowed, before he was elected, that “Harry is on his own” if he became president again.
The president also has the power to intervene and can ask for the documents regarding his application to be released.
In his controversial memoir, the prince said cocaine “didn’t do anything for me”, adding: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”
