During a meeting with Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister), Micheál Martin, on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday (17), Donald Trump took the opportunity to criticize the Irish president — but ended up making a mistake.
The meeting took place at the White House.
President Donald Trump immediately criticized the United Kingdom’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, who has already stated that he does not intend to enter the war. However, the criticism also extended to Ireland’s president.
“The Irish president said that your war against Iran is illegal, that it is an attack on international law,” said a journalist. “Who said that?” Trump asked. “The president of Ireland,” the reporter replied.
“Look, he’s lucky I exist. That’s all I can say, because if you’re going to allow sick and depraved countries — and they are depraved — to have nuclear weapons, everyone in the world should be very grateful,” he said.
It turns out that Donald Trump did not pay attention and referred to Ireland’s president, Catherine Connolly, using a male pronoun, which became a source of satire on social media.
“He can’t even understand that a president can be a woman,” commented a user on X, formerly Twitter.
Connolly harshly criticized the U.S. for “violating international law” in Iran.
“What we have witnessed in recent days are not political disputes. They are deliberate attacks on international law — the international rules that have sustained global peace for eighty years,” she said.
So far, at least 13 American service members have been killed in the conflict and at least 200 have been injured. Thousands of Iranian civilians have been killed and thousands more have been injured.
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Q: The Irish president has said your war against Iran is illegal and an attack on international law
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The Irish president
TRUMP: Look, he’s lucky I exist. That’s all I can say. pic.twitter.com/sb47hYgceN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2026
