The United States’ closest ally is readying an aircraft carrier for possible deployment to the Middle East, but President Trump said today the U.S. doesn’t need the help in fighting with Iran.

A U.K. defense official confirmed the Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales was the subject of increased readiness, but that any decision to sail to the Middle East or eastern Mediterranean has not been made. The carrier is moored in Portsmouth, England, where it was undergoing maintenance.

Speaking on Air Force One today, Trump rejected the possibility of carrier help from the U.K.

“We don’t need them,” he told reporters. “It’s not the right time. It would have been nice to have had them two weeks ago.”

In a post earlier on Truth Social, Trump referenced the reports and said, “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

On the day the war started one week ago, the United States requested access to U.K. airbases in Cyprus and on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, to use them to strike Iranian ballistic missile sites, according to a person familiar with the matter. U.K. officials granted the request the next day.