Trump is determined to stay in the headlines. Apparently he told the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, that he won’t be coming to visit.
And is reason is about the Trumpiest thing you can imagine:
Donald Trump has told Theresa May in a phone call he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public supports him coming.
The US president said he did not want to come if there were large-scale protests and his remarks in effect put the visit on hold for some time.
Wow. I thought he said that Obama had made us a laughing stock and he was going to bring respect from around the world back to the United States? I guess that meant only in places where the public is outlawed from protesting, like Saudi Arabia….
The call was made in recent weeks, according to a Downing Street adviser who was in the room. The statement surprised May, according to those present.
The conversation in part explains why there has been little public discussion about a visit.
May invited Trump to Britain seven days after his inauguration when she became the first foreign leader to visit him in the White House. She told a joint press conference she had extended an invitation from the Queen to Trump and his wife Melania to make a state visit later in the year and was “delighted that the president has accepted that invitation”.
Well damn, Trumpy. How else can people read this except he’s too cowardly to face dissent? I guess you blame the media. It’s their fault Brits dislike Trump!! Damn you fake media!!!
The other reason he might have done this is that he saw how unpopular Theresa May was becoming, again, showing the loyalty he supposedly holds dear only goes one way….