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. She runs the country, I'm a mum from Bognor.“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”. We - Theresa May and I - are so different. ![]() I'm just glad he was not contacting me to say he was going to war with North Korea."Īnd the "wrong Theresa May" now has a message for the American president: "He needs to think before he tweets. "It's amazing to think that the world's most powerful man managed to press the wrong button. I'm just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology," she said. "I was in bed by half 10 last night and oblivious to it all. Scrivener, who has just seven Twitter followers, was asleep when the tweet was sent, she told the Press Association - waking up to countless of messages bombarding her phone at 4 a.m. We are doing just fine!"īut isn't Theresa May's Twitter handle - is owned by a 41-year-old woman who lives in Bognor, on the south coast of England, called Theresa Scrivener - who suddenly found herself at the centre of an international media hurricane. "It is wrong for the president to have done this," her spokesperson said.ĭonald Trump fired back, attempting to target Theresa May with a tweet: "Theresa don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. Even Theresa May, who has previously been reluctant to criticise Trump, rebuked him. On his first attempt, he went after the wrong Theresa May.Įarlier in the day, the US president had retweeted three anti-Muslim hate videos shared on Twitter by a far-right extremist, to universal political outrage in Britain. On Wednesday night, Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack against British Prime Minister Theresa May on Twitter - but there was a problem. The screw-up came after the real Theresa May condemned Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from a British far-right extremist.The US president intended to criticise the British Prime Minister, but tweeted at a 41-year-old woman who lives on the south coast of England instead. ![]()
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