Trump Leaves Irish Puzzled With Post-Brexit Border Promise

  • Border issue will ‘work out very well,’ president says
  • Irish government concerned Brexit will mean border checkpoints

Donald Trump during a meeting with Leo Varadkar at Shannon airport in Shannon, Ireland on June 5, 2019.

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U.S. President Donald Trump reassured Ireland that it has nothing to fear from Brexit, telling the country’s prime minister that the border with Northern Ireland will be “just fine.”