The President of the United States, Donald Trump, expressed the desire to see Irish reunification and guaranteed it will happen "sooner or later". Trump presented himself as the right person to mediate a possible reunification process of the island of Ireland.
The island of Ireland has been divided into two political realities since 1921: the independent Republic of Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland. This division resulted from decades of contestation between nationalists, who advocated reunification with the south, and unionists, who wanted to maintain the link with the United Kingdom.
Although he offered himself as a mediator, Trump admitted that the United Kingdom would also "have a say in the matter", thus acknowledging the role of the British government in any eventual decision on the future of Northern Ireland.
