'Big mistake': Trump demands US ally keep​ Indian Ocean island as possible war looms

President Donald Trump demanded the United Kingdom hold onto an Indian Ocean island that's home to a joint airbase because it might be needed for a possible war against Iran.

The administration has backed Britain’s plan to turn over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius while leasing back the joint UK-U.S. airbase Diego Garcia, but the 79-year-old president issued a social media demand Wednesday afternoon as American forces mass in the Middle East.

"I have been telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer...