Trump won’t deport Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’

U.S. President Donald Trump says helium has nary plans to deport Prince Harry, saying the self-exiled royal has “enough problems” with his wife, Meghan Markle.

Trump’s swipe astatine Markle came during an interview with the New York Post, which asked if the president planned to footwear the prince retired of the state amid ongoing questions astir his migration status.

“I don’t privation to bash that. I’ll permission him alone. He’s got capable problems with his wife. She’s terrible,” helium told the Post.

The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing deliberation vessel down Project 2025, the presidency blueprint that Trump has been heavily mirroring successful the aboriginal weeks of his 2nd term, has been pushing to cognize much astir the prince’s migration presumption and records ever since the royal admitted to utilizing drugs successful the past successful his memoir, Spare.

The deliberation vessel wants Harry’s migration paperwork released, arguing there’s a anticipation the Duke of Sussex lied connected his forms astir his past cause usage oregon received peculiar attraction from Joe Biden’s medication to participate the U.S.

They privation to cognize truthful badly, successful fact, that they sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aft it rejected the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom of Information Act petition to merchandise Harry’s record.

In 2023, the DHS petition was declined, but a justice this week said helium is still considering the case.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols focused mostly connected however to grip a trio of sworn statements from DHS officials connected wherefore the bureau was fighting the records request.

Those statements person not been seen by the Heritage ineligible team, and Nichols is considering whether to merchandise portion oregon each of those declarations to the Heritage Foundation. The justice — who has been shown some, but not all, of Harry’s migration records — said he’s besides considering whether to petition much records from the authorities and whether to telephone successful an extracurricular adept arsenic a consultant.

The prince is not a enactment successful the lawsuit.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex person voiced their disapproval of Trump implicit the years.

In 2016, earlier she had adjacent met Harry, Markle called the then-new president a “misogynist” and “divisive” during an interrogation with Larry Wilmore.

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Years later, successful 2019, earlier a statesmanlike sojourn to the U.K., Trump dismissed her comments, saying: “I didn’t cognize she was nasty.” A twelvemonth later, helium said, “I’m not a instrumentality of her. I privation a batch of luck to Harry, he’s going to request it.”

When the adjacent predetermination rolled around, arsenic Trump faced disconnected against Biden, Harry appeared successful a video, urging radical not lone to ballot but besides to “reject hatred speech, misinformation, and online negativity” — words that galore took to beryllium a thinly veiled swipe astatine Trump.

Last year, earlier helium was elected, Trump told Express U.S. tabloid that helium would not “protect” Harry.

“I wouldn’t support him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would beryllium connected his ain if it was down to me.”

Trump, successful his Friday interrogation with the New York Post, went connected to authorities helium thinks “poor Harry” is “whipped” by Markle.

Trump did, however, instrumentality a infinitesimal to praise Harry’s older brother, Prince William, whom helium met privately successful December 2024 astatine the reopening ceremonial of Notre-Dame Cathedral successful Paris.

“I deliberation William is simply a large young man,” helium said.