TRUMP JUST WENT THERE — His Latest Harry & Meghan Remark Reignites a Royal Firestorm
TRUMP JUST WENT THERE — His Latest Harry & Meghan Remark Reignites a Royal Firestorm
WASHINGTON / LONDON — President Donald Trump has reignited his long-running criticism of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with a blunt assessment of the couple’s relationship with the Royal Family — saying he personally would not have welcomed them back.
Speaking to GB News presenter Bev Turner, Trump praised King Charles III as a “fantastic” person and longtime friend while taking aim at Harry’s memoir, Spare, and Meghan’s influence on her husband.
“Personally, I would not have taken them back,” Trump said when asked how he would have handled the situation if he were in Charles’s position.
The remark immediately sharpened the contrast between Trump’s personal view and the approach taken by the King, whose relationship with his son has continued despite years of public tension.
But Trump’s words were about family reconciliation, not British immigration policy or the couple’s legal right to be in the United Kingdom.
Trump’s Remark Was Personal — and Deliberately Blunt
Trump did not present his comments as a statement of British policy or as an announcement concerning Harry and Meghan’s status.
Instead, he framed the question in personal terms: What would he have done if he were King Charles?
His answer was unequivocal.
Trump said he would not have “taken them back,” arguing that there had been too much hostility and too many negative things said about the Royal Family.
He also criticized Harry’s memoir, Spare, which contained highly personal accounts of Harry’s life inside the Royal Family and his relationship with other senior royals.
Trump described the book in sharply negative terms and said it was unfair to Prince William. He also characterized Meghan as a “horrible influence” on Harry.
Those descriptions are Trump’s judgments, not independently established facts.
That distinction matters because the Sussexes’ relationship with the Royal Family is deeply contested, with different members of the family and the couple themselves having offered competing accounts of what caused the breakdown.
Trump’s latest comments therefore add another high-profile political voice to a dispute that has already played out through interviews, documentaries, books and years of media coverage.
What Does “Taken Back” Actually Mean?
The most important point about Trump’s remark may be what he did not mean.
The phrase “taken back” could be misunderstood as referring to whether Harry and Meghan were allowed to return to Britain. But that was not the context of the exchange.
Trump was discussing the King’s personal and family relationship with the Sussexes.
He essentially said that if he were Charles, he would have chosen not to resume the same level of family contact.
That is very different from saying the couple should be barred from the United Kingdom.
Prince Harry is a British citizen, while Meghan is an American citizen. Questions involving their residence, immigration status, security arrangements or private lives are separate from the family dispute Trump was discussing.
The King also does not personally control Britain’s immigration system.
So while Trump’s language was dramatic, it should not be interpreted as a statement that Charles had the power — or intended — to prevent the Sussexes from entering the country.
Harry and Meghan’s Return Changed the Optics
The timing of Trump’s comments is significant because Harry and Meghan returned to Britain with their children in late August 2026.
The return came six years after the couple stepped back from senior working royal duties and subsequently established their life in California.
Their physical return to Britain naturally renewed speculation about the state of Harry’s relationship with his father.
It also created a striking visual and political contrast: the Sussexes were back in the United Kingdom while the question of their place within the Royal Family remained unresolved.
Yet returning to Britain did not mean returning to royal duties.
On September 7, King Charles authorized a letter to senior British officials reiterating the couple’s position as non-working members of the Royal Family. Their charitable and commercial activities remain private rather than official royal functions.
That distinction is critical.
Harry and Meghan can have a relationship with members of the Royal Family without being restored to their former roles.
Likewise, Charles can maintain contact with his son without reversing the institutional arrangements established after the Sussexes stepped back from royal duties.
Trump Says Charles Was More Forgiving Than He Would Have Been
Trump repeatedly contrasted his own hypothetical response with Charles’s approach.
He praised the King as a “fantastic guy” and suggested Charles was more forgiving than he would have been.
In effect, Trump portrayed the King’s willingness to maintain a relationship with Harry as a sign of greater patience than Trump believed he personally would have shown.
That observation also reveals something about the nature of Trump’s criticism.
He was not simply attacking Harry and Meghan. He was also praising Charles for what Trump viewed as an unusually generous response to a difficult family situation.
The result was a message that combined admiration for the King with unusually direct criticism of the Sussexes.
For a president who has previously expressed strong opinions about the couple, the comments were consistent with his broader public stance.
The U.S. Connection Makes the Exchange More Significant
Trump’s comments also come against the backdrop of his increasingly visible relationship with King Charles.
The King and Queen Camilla made a state visit to Washington from April 27 through April 30, 2026.
During that visit, Charles addressed a joint session of Congress on April 28, becoming only the second British monarch to do so after Queen Elizabeth II addressed Congress in 1991.
Trump referred positively to Charles’s recent visit during the GB News interview and emphasized the warm reception the King received in the United States.
That relationship provides important context for understanding why Trump’s remarks about Harry and Meghan received attention in both Britain and the United States.
The president was discussing a British royal family dispute, but he was doing so while publicly expressing admiration for the head of that family.
Charles’s Health Is Part of the Public Record — But Not a License for Speculation
Trump also spoke positively about Charles’s ability to continue his public duties despite his health challenges.
Buckingham Palace announced in February 2024 that the King had been diagnosed with a form of cancer and had begun treatment.
Charles subsequently returned to public-facing duties and has maintained a substantial official schedule.
Those facts are part of the public record.
But the King's medical condition remains a private matter beyond the information officially released by the palace. Trump's praise for Charles's resilience should therefore not be treated as evidence about the King's current prognosis, treatment or health status.
For journalists covering the Royal Family, that distinction is especially important because health-related speculation can quickly move beyond what is actually known.
Trump’s History With Harry and Meghan
Trump’s latest remarks are also part of a much longer-running pattern.
He has repeatedly commented on Harry and Meghan, particularly as the couple has publicly discussed their experiences within the Royal Family and their eventual decision to step back from senior royal duties.
Harry and Meghan have spoken openly about family tensions through interviews, documentaries and Harry’s memoir.
Those public disclosures have kept the dispute alive long after the couple relocated to California.
Trump, meanwhile, has frequently expressed admiration for Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles while taking a more critical view of the Sussexes.
His latest comments fit that established pattern.
But there is an important difference between Trump expressing an opinion and Trump exercising governmental authority.
Nothing in the GB News exchange indicates that he was announcing a U.S. policy toward Harry and Meghan, speaking on behalf of Buckingham Palace or describing a formal British government decision.
The Real Question Is What Happens Next
The larger question surrounding Harry and Meghan is therefore not whether Trump would have welcomed them back.
It is whether their return to Britain will lead to any meaningful change in their relationship with the Royal Family.
So far, the evidence points to a distinction between family contact and royal status.
The Sussexes can return to Britain.
Harry can maintain a relationship with his father.
Charles can remain willing to communicate with his son.
And none of those developments necessarily means Harry and Meghan will resume their former roles as working royals.
That is why Trump’s phrase “taken them back” needs to be understood in its proper context.
He was talking about reconciliation.
Why Trump’s Words Matter
Trump’s intervention matters because it places an unusually prominent American political figure directly into one of Britain’s most persistent royal controversies.
His criticism is likely to attract attention precisely because it is personal, direct and familiar.
He praised Charles.
He criticized Harry.
He criticized Meghan.
And he made clear that, in his hypothetical position as King, he would have handled the family dispute differently.
But the remark does not change Harry and Meghan’s formal position.
It does not alter British immigration law.
It does not represent a Buckingham Palace decision.
And it does not establish that Charles has “taken back” the Sussexes in any official sense.
Instead, it exposes the continuing divide between the Sussexes’ private family relationships and their public institutional status.
The Royal Firestorm Is Far From Over
Trump’s latest Harry and Meghan remark may have reignited the conversation, but it did not settle the underlying dispute.
The Sussexes remain outside the working structure of the Royal Family, while their relationship with Charles continues to attract intense public interest.
Trump has now made his own position unmistakable: If he had been in Charles’s place, he says he would not have welcomed Harry and Meghan back.
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Whether Charles ultimately takes a different path is a matter for the King and his family.
For now, Trump’s intervention has added another combustible element to a royal story that has refused to disappear — and it has once again put Harry and Meghan at the center of a very public debate over family, loyalty and royal status.
