Donald Trump insiders have warned the UK has hit a ‘tripwire’ after anti-immigration riots exploded in Belfast over a vicious stabbing allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker.
‘It’s the new Troubles,’ said Jack Posobiec, a MAGA commentator with close ties to the Trump administration.
Belfast erupted in flames again tonight, scenes grimly reminiscent of the Troubles, the sectarian bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants that ravaged Northern Ireland for three decades.
This time Catholics and Protestants are united in fury at asylum seeker Hadi Alodid, whose alleged knife attack on Monday left victim Stephen Ogilvie in a coma and cost him his left eye.
Disturbing footage appeared to show a blood-soaked Alodid attempting to hack into Ogilvie’s neck in the middle of a residential street before heroic bystanders, one wielding a hurling stick, hauled him off the victim.
Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump confidant, called the moment a ‘tripwire’ for British politics and slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer for aiming his ire at the rioters rather than the root cause.
A Trump administration official told the Daily Mail: ‘On both sides of the Atlantic, Americans, Irishmen, and Englishmen are waking up to a stark reality: our homelands are beset by a crippling pestilence manifesting as an incompatible populace, imported from the Third World.’
The attack comes just days after the UK erupted in outrage at the murder of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man, sparking condemnation from JD Vance and Marco Rubio.
Disturbing footage appeared to show a blood-soaked Alodid attempting to hack into Ogilvie’s neck before heroic bystanders, one wielding a hurling stick, hauled him off the victim
Belfast erupted in flames this week, scenes grimly reminiscent of the Troubles, the Catholic-Protestant sectarian violence that plagued Britain for half a century
Masked youths block a road with burning debris in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the evening of June 9
Vehicles set on fire by protesters on Lendrick Street in Belfast
A burning bus is seen as protesters gather on the Newtownards road in east Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the evening of June 9
‘You’re going to hit their tripwire. And once you hit their tripwire, these are tough hombres,’ Bannon said of the men taking to the streets, speaking on his War Room show.
‘These are working class people, middle class people, and they’re not going to sit there and tolerate this continually, pushed by the elites in London and Dublin, who are all globalist, right?
‘This is the anti-nationalist just trying to jam this down their people’s throat. So this could be pretty intense and hopefully gets channeled into positive nationalism.
‘But I’ve got to tell you, you’ve got to throw down at first because they don’t listen until you throw down hard.’
Starmer reserved much of his fury for the rioters when he addressed Parliament on Wednesday.
‘People are rightly sickened by the horrific attack on Monday night in north Belfast. As you have just said, the man arrested has been in court in Belfast this morning and charged,’ he told MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions.
‘I want to thank the Police Service of Northern Ireland and other first responders and members of the public who responded with such bravery, and our thoughts are with the victim. But let me be clear, the acts of violence and arson that followed are totally unjustified.’
Bannon tore into Starmer’s response, accusing him of attacking British citizens for the crimes of migrants.
‘Not one comment about the perpetrator and what these migrants are destroying,’ he said.
Bannon said that Starmer was ‘100 percent backing the beheaders.’
Steve Bannon at the National Conservatism Conference at the Westin Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. on September 4, 2025 Washington DC
Jack Posobiec speaks at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington D.C., Sept. 3, 2025
Flames and thick black smoke rise from a burning bus during unrest on Sandy Row in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 9
Posobiec called the footage ‘one of the most horrific things’ he had ever seen.
‘What’s happened now in Belfast is Northern Ireland is responding that they are done with the migration policies. They are completely done with everything you’re seeing,’ Posobiec said.
Alodid, 30, was remanded in custody on Wednesday after appearing in court in Belfast charged with attempted murder over Monday’s knife attack.
The Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment.
It comes after the Nowak case exploded worldwide after video showed the dying teenager being handcuffed by police, with the killer, a Sikh man, claiming he had been the victim of racial abuse.
JD Vance and the US State Department issued statements condemning the police response and the UK’s immigration policy.
There should be ‘righteous anger’ in response to the killing, Vance said in a post on X on Friday, blaming it in part on ‘the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.’
Starmer’s office hit back at Vance, criticizing people ‘trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.’
‘The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes,’ Downing Street said in a statement.
‘Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.’
