Trump comments on Prince Harry’s deportation, insults Meghan Markle

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t deport Prince Harry, while insulting the prince’s wife, Meghan Markle, in the same breath over the weekend.

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“I don’t want to do that,” said Trump, referring to kicking the royal out of the country, while speaking to the New York Post. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”

Trump also said that Prince Harry was being “led around by the nose” by Markle, and he was “whipped.”

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Conversely, Trump praised Prince Harry’s older brother, Prince William, the Prince of Wales. The two met in December in Paris, BBC News reported.

“I think William is a great young man,” said Trump, per the New York Post.

Prince Harry has been facing scrutiny from The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation also organized the political initiative Project 2025, which includes policies that Trump has been seemingly enacting early in his second presidency. Trump himself, however, has denied ever reading it, CNN reported.

The foundation filed a complaint against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in May 2023. In it, the foundations asks for the release Prince Harry’s visa application.

“Widespread and continuous media coverage has surfaced the question of whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex in light of the fact that he has publicly admitted to the essential elements of a number of drug offenses in both the United States and abroad,” the complaint reads. “United States law generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry to the United States.”

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In a blog post from 2024, the foundation said its goal was to ensure the DHS “treat everyone — prince or ordinary citizen — equally when it comes to being allowed to legally enter the U.S.” The post’s writer, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Nile Gardiner, said that Prince Harry discussed drug use in his autobiographical book, Spare.

“One would have expected that Harry’s immigration application would have included the same detailed description of drug use as his book. Any omissions would be an extremely serious matter,” wrote Gardiner.

Whether or not Prince Harry was transparent in official papers, Gardiner said he is interested in how it was handled by DHS. He wondered if the department was “playing favourites.”

The case is moving forward slowly, since it was filed two years ago. The most recent development in the case was a hearing on Feb. 5.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is trying to figure out what to do with three statements from DHS officials that explained why the department was against releasing the requested records, the Associated Press reported.

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