San Patricio’s day moves on Trump’s policy a bet of Sinn Féin

Boicoteing the celebrations of the Day of St. Patrick at the White House is a great decision of Sinn Féin.

Such Desaite runs the risk of damaging long -standing relations with key political figures in the United States.

I could also play badly with the broader Irish diaspora, many of which are great supporters of Donald Trump.

But it is a bet that Sinn Féin’s leadership is prepared to take.

Politically he will feel like the right thing, given the previous threat of President Trump to eliminate the Palestinians of Gaza and attack Ukraine this week.

At the beginning of the month, Trump presented a drastic change in American politics towards the Middle East Say that the United States will take over the strip of Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the region.

A wave of international criticism complied with the comments, including France, Germany and the United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres, who warned the United States against ethnic cleaning in Gaza.

Earl this week, he accused the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to be a “dictator” who “began war” with Russia.

For many, it was a step too far, even for those within the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that had fully supported the new Trump administration.

But governments had to walk a thin line criticizing Trump’s comments without damaging relations with the United States.

Trump’s attacks occurred after Zelensky, reacting to Russia’s conversations in the United States in Saudi Arabia of which kyiv was excluded, said that the president of the United States was “living in a disinformation space” governed by Moscow .

The oppositions, the parties like Sinn Féin, had no such limitations.

Eight Irish ministers travel to the United States next month, including Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.

He will feel like an easy blow to Sinn Féin given the greatest public outrage against President Trump.

But the decision of the Northern Ireland Prime Minister to announce his Washington boycott in Dublin will not be lost with his unionist political opponents.

For them, this will feel like a political strategy born in Dublin and not in Belfast.

The approach will now fall into Prime Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, who was anxious to travel to Washington.

Although it is a joint office, I could still travel to the United States, provided that the move is not vetoed by the Prime Minister, which seems unlikely.

If that happens, Ireland of the North will be represented in the White House, but not by the joint ministers.