Trump faces backlash after revealing who his favourite Irish person is

Donald Trump has received backlash over revealing who his favourite Irish person is.

In another meeting in the Oval Office, Trump made a faux pas when answering a question from a reporter.

This comes after the US President began explaining why Ireland is ‘smart’ after allegedly stealing US pharmaceutical companies, suing them, being awarded money from the case, and making them want to leave the US to set up camp in Ireland through ‘proper taxation’.

In front of the Irish leader, Micheál Martin, Trump shared that he would retaliate against the European Union threatening to impose its own tariffs on £21.8bn worth of US goods.

The EU is just another responder of many after Trump rolled out mass tariffs around the world.

In the meeting, he stated that Ireland was taking advantage of the US, stating: “There’s a massive deficit that we have with Ireland and with other countries.

“I have great respect for Ireland ... but the United States shouldn’t have let it happen.”

‘It’ is the taxation that the Irish allegedly used to lure away companies from the US, which Trump blamed former presidents for.

“We’ve been abused for a long time and we will be abused no longer,” he said. “The European Union treats us very badly, and they have for years. They sue our companies and win massive amounts of money. They sued Apple ... and they use that for other reasons, I guess, to run the European Union.”

Now, because the EU has responded to his tariffs, it will ‘create ill will, and as you know, the reciprocal tariffs’.

After his talk on the EU, Ireland, and tax, he went on to reveal that he has one person who is his favourite in Ireland, and it’s not a great pick in light of recent court filings.

He told a reporter that Conor McGregor is his favourite Irish person, and shared that the mixed martial arts fighter is ‘great’.

Trump explained: “Well, I do happen to like your fighter. He’s got the best tattoos I’ve ever seen.

“Conor is great, right?”

People online were not happy with his answer, with one person writing: "Martin wanted jump off the Cliffs of Moher after that one!"

Another pointed out: "Look at Martin's face when President Trump said that."

Someone else shared: "That's ironic."

McGregor lost a civil rape claim last year and was ordered to pay nearly £188,000 in damages to Nikita Hand, who accused him of rape in Dublin.

Media asked Trump who his favourite Irish person is.

"Well I do happen to like your fighter, Conor is great." pic.twitter.com/0Ra3o6NX1K

— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) March 12, 2025

While the fighter told Dublin’s High Court he had consensual sex with the woman in a penthouse at the Beacon Hotel in 2018, she alleged that McGregor forcefully raped her, by pinning her down, choking her three times, and then he ‘brutally raped and battered’ her.

The fighter was found liable of assaulting her after a six hour and 10-minute deliberation.

Similarly, Trump was found liable for sexual assault in a civil court in 2023, after it was alleged he had sexually abused advice columnist E Jean Carroll in 1996.

Trump was ordered to pay out $5 million in damages.

Then, there’s the whole ‘grab her by the p****’ controversy that came out during his 2016 campaign, which saw the soon-to-be president talk about groping women as they ‘love it’.