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特朗普称爱尔兰统一势在必行，打破历任前任立场
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我很乐意看到它统一。我认为，如果这件事发生，那对所有人来说都会是莫大的荣誉。这最终会发生，倒不如现在就发生。
从贝尔法斯特否决到都柏林背书
他没有收回这些话。当晚在美国大使官邸，他亲自重述了这段对话，称统一是“一件非常酷的事”，并说：“无论你说什么、怎么说，都没有好答案。我觉得我给出了一个不错的回答。我们明天再操心这件事。”67 这与其说是纠正，不如说是耸耸肩——承认这个问题极具争议，谁碰谁都讨不了好，却又坚持说自己仍觉得这会很酷。6 周日在杜恩贝格，他更进一步说道：“我一直很喜欢爱尔兰人民。在我看来，那里有北爱尔兰和爱尔兰。把它们合在一起，似乎是有史以来最顺理成章的事情之一。这只是我的看法，顺便说一句，很多人都认同。”22 得知伯纳姆不会允许举行公投，除非看起来多数人可能支持统一后，他回应说：“大家都这么说，但事情还是会发生。”30
各方反应沿着旧有分界线迅速展开。保守党领袖凯米·巴德诺赫称这一介入是“信口开河”和“无益之举”。30 英国改革党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇称北爱尔兰是“联合王国骄傲且不可分割的一部分”，并表示自己不同意特朗普的看法。30 民主统一党领袖加文·罗宾逊说，北爱尔兰的未来“将由北爱尔兰人民决定，而不是由伦敦、都柏林或华盛顿的评论决定”，并表示“作为统一派，我们对通过与爱尔兰共和国合并来摧毁自己的国家毫无兴趣”。27 其他统一派人士——伊恩·佩斯利二世、吉姆·阿利斯特领导的传统统一之声党（TUV）以及阿尔斯特统一党（UUP）——也告诉特朗普不要插手。27 在民族主义者一方，新芬党领袖玛丽·卢·麦克唐纳称这些言论“恰逢其时”，表示“关于爱尔兰统一的讨论已经发生变化”，并称“总理现在必须开始为一个统一的爱尔兰做准备”；格里·亚当斯则欢迎这些言论，认为它们反映了侨民的看法。30 特朗普称为“对的人”的马丁本人则称统一派的反应过度，并再次表示，他认为如果现在举行公投，公投不会通过。30
未知
- 目前尚无民调变化或政策举措显示这些言论改变了现状。
后续
- 无论民族主义者是否推动规划、统一派是否立场更趋强硬，以及华盛顿是否因此付出与伦敦关系受损的代价。
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- A US president has just declared Irish reunification 'fantastic' — and said it will happen eventually.
- The remarks put the United States at odds with Britain's prime minister, who weeks ago ruled out a border poll, and they break with every American president before him.
- The question now is whether the words change anything on the ground.
- Trump arrived in Dublin on Saturday morning, met President Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and later told reporters he would love to see Northern Ireland and the Republic united.
- He said reunification would be fantastic, that it's going to happen eventually, and that it may as well happen now. He even gestured at the Taoiseach, saying he had the right man to get it moving.
- At the US ambassador's residence that evening, he recalled the question, called unification a very cool thing, and admitted there was no good answer to it — but said he gave a nice answer and they'd worry about it tomorrow. On Sunday at Doonbeg, he called the two islands one of the naturals of all time to put together.
- The two positions could not be further apart — one says it's inevitable, the other says it's not coming.
- The row built over three weeks, starting with the prime minister's declaration in Belfast, then the president's comments in Dublin, and the response that followed.
- Five figures drive the story: the US president, the UK prime minister, the Irish Taoiseach, and the two leaders on either side of the divide in Northern Ireland.
- The visit spanned Dublin and Doonbeg, while the political battle centers on Belfast and the border.
- Roughly ten thousand people marched in Dublin, organisers claim far more, and at Shannon hundreds gathered, while three women were arrested near the golf course.
- The reaction split straight down the unionist-nationalist fault line. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called it shooting from the hip; Reform UK's Nigel Farage said Northern Ireland is a proud and integral part of the United Kingdom. DUP leader Gavin Robinson insisted the future will be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, not commentary from London, Dublin or Washington. On the other side, Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald called the comments timely and said the conversation on Irish unity has shifted. The Taoiseach himself said the unionist reaction was an overreaction.
- Under the Good Friday Agreement, the British government is obliged to call a border poll if a majority in Northern Ireland appears likely to vote for unification. That trigger rests on judgment and polling, not on a US president's preference — and Trump has no vote in it.
- So does anything change? Not yet. Burnham's position stands, Downing Street repeated it, and the Taoiseach himself says a vote wouldn't succeed now. What has changed is the political weather — for the first time, a sitting US president has publicly backed the island's unification, and the row it created shows how radioactive the question remains.
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