President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies have claimed credit for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s departure from the United States, mocking the couple online after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex disclosed on Wednesday that they will relocate to Britain this month, ending six years based in America.
News of the move leaked to a string of outlets, and at least one report tied the decision in part to friction between the Sussexes and the White House, saying the pair had been open about their dissatisfaction with the current administration as the midterm elections approach. That framing was enough to set off a wave of commentary from figures aligned with the president.
A Pile-On From Trump’s Base
Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, was among those weighing in. “They are moving back to Britain because they don’t like President Trump,” Miller wrote on X, sharing a link to the report. In separate posts, she said without evidence that Meghan had only ever wanted to be a celebrity and claimed the couple were broke.
Conservative personality Megyn Kelly piled in as well, answering a post from right-wing commentator Dan Wootton that described “Megxit” as being reversed. “We’ve done our time here in America my dear friend!” Kelly replied.
A political source described the reaction as a pile-on by the president’s most ardent supporters, who were treating the relocation as proof that Trump had helped push the Sussexes out of the country.
A Feud That Predates the Move
Trump, 80, has publicly praised other members of the royal family, including King Charles III and Prince William, while repeatedly criticizing Harry and Meghan. In January 2026, the president said allied forces had held back from the front lines during the war in Afghanistan and raised doubts about whether the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would actually show up to defend the United States in a moment of need.
Harry, who served in Afghanistan with the British Army, issued a rebuke, saying he had served there, made lifelong friends there and lost friends there. He added that every allied nation had been obliged to stand with the United States in pursuit of shared security, pointing to NATO’s mutual defense clause and saying allies answered that call.
In February 2025, Trump was drawn into a dispute over Harry’s immigration status after a conservative think tank contested his US visa over the drug use the duke described in his memoir “Spare.” The president opted against deportation, telling the New York Post that he intended to leave the duke alone on the grounds that Harry already had his hands full with a wife the president branded terrible. The duke holds US permanent residency but has not become a citizen.
The jabs carried on into this year. Trump is said to have remarked to royal biographer Robert Hardman in May 2026 that what Meghan had done to Harry struck him. And when King Charles visited Washington in April 2026, the president reportedly put a question to the monarch about whether he might take his son off his hands.
The duke, for his part, has gotten in a few digs of his own. Appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in December 2025, the duke argued that Americans are fascinated by royalty, and when host Stephen Colbert pushed back, Harry replied that he had heard they elected a king. Back in 2020, when Meghan took part in a get-out-the-vote effort backed by former First Lady Michelle Obama and spoke of the change she said the country needed and deserved, Trump responded by saying he was not a fan.
What the Return Actually Looks Like
Beneath the political noise, the practical details are more mundane. Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, are returning for what has been described as an extended period, accompanied by their children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, who have been enrolled at a British school. The family will not move into a royal residence, and the location of their new home and the identity of the school are being withheld for privacy reasons.
Harry told King Charles on Sunday that the family intended to come back to Britain later in the month. The king, who is undergoing cancer treatment, is said to welcome the chance for more private, personal time with his son and grandchildren. He is also understood to have signaled that nothing about the couple’s standing as private individuals and non-working members of the royal family will change.
Nor does the move sever the couple’s American ties. They plan to hold on to their $11 million home in Montecito, California, where they settled in 2020 after stepping back as senior working royals, as well as a property in Portugal.
Neither the duke nor the duchess has publicly connected the relocation to the president. Multiple reports indicate the couple are moving to be closer to Harry’s family, with the prince said to want more time with his father — a considerably quieter explanation than the one being celebrated on X.