![]() The videos Trump retweeted, purporting to show assaults by Muslims, were posted by Britain First’s deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who has been convicted of a hate crime and faces new charges in a trial starting next month. May said: “An invitation for a state visit has been extended and has been accepted. ![]() May was the first foreign leader to visit Trump following his inauguration in January, where she offered him a prestigious state visit to Britain including a welcome by Queen Elizabeth II.īut opposition to the invitation has only grown, and Khan said Thursday that it was “increasingly clear that any official visit at all from President Trump to Britain would not be welcomed”. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has himself been involved in a string of Trump Twitter spats, said the president’s actions were “a betrayal of the special relationship between our two countries”. Trump’s retweets of a group known for its aggressively anti-Muslim stance have drawn condemnation in the United States and in Britain, where there were renewed calls for his planned state visit to be cancelled. Scrivener said she is waiting for an apology from the White House and found it "amazing" the world's most powerful man had pressed "the wrong button." She aded she was glad he was not contacting her to say he was going to war with North Korea.“I’m very clear that retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do,” May said, describing the group as a “hateful” organisation that “seeks to spread division”.īut she stressed that Britain and the United States have “a long-term special relationship… it is an enduring relationship that is there because its is in both our nations’ interests”. I hope now I’ve said my piece I will be left alone." She runs the country, I’m a mum from Bognor. We - Theresa May and I - are so different. He (Trump) needs to think before he tweets. Scrivener said she has no plans to change her Twitter handle. "Why should I? It’s my name. More: Trump's retweets of anti-Muslim videos test 'special relationship' with U.K.Īt the time of Trump's tweet, which he quickly deleted after realizing his mistake, Scrivener had six followers. I’ve been bombarded and been contacted by press from around the world." "I was in bed by half 10 last night and oblivious to it all. ![]() "I wasn’t really sure what to make of it,” Theresa May Scrivener told the Press Association, a British news wire service, late Thursday. We are doing just fine!” In fact, the president tweeted another Theresa May: not the Conservative Party politician who has served as Britain's leader since 2016, but a 41-year-old woman named Theresa Scrivener from Bognor. Trump thought he was addressing the leader of one of Washington's closest allies - when he tweeted Wednesday: "Don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. Both had the attention of President Trump this week after he retweeted videos posted by the deputy leader of the far-right extremist group Britain First, then criticized Britain's prime minister for rebuking him over it. ally, the other is a self-described "mum" from a small seaside town in southern England. Watch Video: May: Trump far-right retweet 'wrong thing to do'
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