Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests

[anxiety]

 

Donald Trump is refusing to visit the UK unless Theresa May can ensure that he is not met with protests.

Bloomberg revealed that Trump complained in a phone call to May about the "negative coverage" he has received in the British press.

 

May told the US president that that was how the UK media operated and she could do little to change it.

Trump went on to say that he would not visit the UK unless there were guarantees that he would not be met with protests.

Advisers who had been listening to the phone call are reported to have been "astonished" at the demands.

The pair are due to meet for bilateral talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos today (25 January).

Trump's complaints and demands are the latest indicator of the increasingly fractious "special" relationship between the UK and US after Trump pulled out of a visit to Britain.

The president had been billed to open the new US embassy in London in February but cancelled the trip citing his displeasure at its "off location" in south London.

The old embassy in Grosvenor Square was deemed a major security headache that could not be fixed, which meant a new building had to be put up somewhere else in London. It was eventually decided to relocate it to a more secure location, just a few miles away in the Vauxhall area.

Trump has stoked anger in the UK ever since he came to power nearly a year ago.

He attacked the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in the wake of terror attacks in London, prompting the mayor to call for any visit by Trump to the UK to be called off.

Public disdain for Trump escalated further when he turned his anger on May.

She condemned him as "wrong" to retweet posts by members of the far-right group Britain First.

Trump tweeted back: "Theresa May, don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!"

 

 

[doki-doki]

WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE BITCH

[blossoms]

we don't want you here nd we don't want her either.

[sickwithsin]

President Snowflake

[plutto]

Idiot

[Aneira3019]

dude that's never gonna happen. He's hated in the UK, Piers Morgan who's sorta his friend even critises him on the TV show he's on.

[Mr. Phoenix]

“Advisers who had been listening to the phone call are reported to have been "astonished" at the demands.â€

 

So someone reported what someone said they overheard listening to someone else’s phone call, and it just happened to fit the exact caricature those someones have been trying to paint of the politician in question, and it just happened to be the kind of story Bloomberg’s editors wanted to hear, so they ran it without attribution anyway.

 

More #FakeNews...

[Rick Sanchez]

[eunjo]

The U.S fought a war with Britain centuries ago bc the UK was restricting their freedom of speech (among other things) and now the president of the US is asking the UK to censor free speech.

 

The irony is giving me a headache.

[Frogurt]

I'm surprised, Trump is usually able to delusionally claim that protesters all secretly love him.

[ChooChoo]

[PeachyKeys!]

Lovely news. Don't come.

[ezgiT]

we don't want you here nd we don't want her either.