Phil Goff, New Zealand’s high commissioner to the U.K. and his country’s most senior diplomat in London, was fired for comments mocking President Donald Trump at a London think tank event at Chatham House.
During remarks, he shared Winston Churchill’s speech from 1938 in which the British powerhouse blasted then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his decision to sign the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler.
Goff smugly said to Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, “President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office.”
Goff then condescendingly asked, “But do you think he really understands history?,”
Goff was clearly referencing the tension that erupted in the Oval Office between Trump and an ill-behaved and unappreciative Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Valtonen dodged the attempt to criticize Trump alltogether and instead remarked that Churchill’s remarks were “timeless.”
Watch:
Phil Goff, who was serving as high commissioner to the UK, seemingly tried to compare Winston Churchill’s handling of Nazi Germany to Trump’s approach to Russia. #zelena pic.twitter.com/WwzCUBSLRg
— John Quigg Jr. (@johnquiggjr) March 6, 2025
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters fired Goff and, in remarks to the press, called the diplomat’s question “deeply disappointing.”
He added that it made Goff’s position as high commissioner to London ‘untenable.”
Per The Guardian Peters continued, “When you’re in that position, you represent the views of the government and the policies of the day – you’re not able to free-think, you are the face of New Zealand,” Peters told the press on Thursday.
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