{"id":69900,"date":"2025-03-06T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/06\/phil-goff-donald-trump-comments-new-zealand-high-commissioner-removed-chatham-house-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:55:17","slug":"new-zealands-high-commissioner-to-the-uk-loses-job-after-trump-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69900","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s high commissioner to the UK loses job after Trump comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Goff questioned Donald Trump\u2019s grasp of history at a Chatham House event in London, prompting the foreign minister to say his position is \u2018untenable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s high commissioner to the United Kingdom has been removed from his role after publicly questioning US President Donald Trump\u2019s grasp of history \u2013 remarks that have rendered his position \u201cuntenable\u201d in the eyes of New Zealand\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>At a public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/04\/europe-is-running-out-of-hope-trump-is-still-open-to-persuasion-over-ukraine\">Chatham House event<\/a> in London this week, high commissioner Phil Goff asked a question of Finnish foreign affairs minister Elina Valtonen, who was speaking on how to keep the peace with Russia, with which Finland shares a border.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/06\/phil-goff-donald-trump-comments-new-zealand-high-commissioner-removed-chatham-house-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Goff questioned Donald Trump\u2019s grasp of history at a Chatham House event in London, prompting the foreign minister to say his position is \u2018untenable\u2019New Zealand\u2019s high commissioner to the United Kingdom has been removed from his role after publicl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69901,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900\/revisions\/69901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}