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US President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Theresa May on Friday after torpedoing the plans of the British trade relations leader with the European Union after Brexit.
"If they make a such an agreement, we would deal with the European Union instead of dealing with the United Kingdom, "Trump told The Sun while Ms. May planned to take advantage of her official visit to the United Kingdom to advance discussions on the conclusion of a free trade agreement with Washington, once his country leaves the EU in late March 2019.
"It will probably kill the agreement" with the United States, added Trump, arrived in the United Kingdom on Thursday afternoon from Brussels where he summoned his NATO partners to put more money in the pocket for defense expenditure.
Before leaving the Belgian capital, he had worn a first blow to Ms. May's project, presented the same day , saying "do not know" whether it corresponds to the vote of the British to leave the EU.
Nor did he rule out meeting his "friend" Boris Johnson, a supporter of a hard Brexit, who slammed the door of the government earlier this week to protest against May's plan, which he said would make him a "great prime minister."
"That says a lot about his personal preferences, and to what kind of Brexit He wants to see the United Kingdom take the road, "the Guardian newspaper reported.
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders tried to minimize the impact of the statements by Mr. Trump baduring that the US president "loves and respects a lot" Ms. May, since, she added to the press, "he said in his interview that she was + a very good person + and that he never said anything bad about it ".
The plan proposed by Ms May in Brussels is to maintain close links with the EU-27 on trade in goods by establishing a new "free trade area" based on a set of common rules on goods and the agri-food sector.
– Tea with the Queen –
Mr. Trump's new release is all the more scathing for Ms. May that, on Thursday night, she extolled the strength of the transatlantic link, seeing it as an "unprecedented opportunity."
The United States and the United Kingdom are not only "the closest allies, but also the most dear friends," she said welcoming the American president and his wife Melania for a dinner at the Blenheim Palace, a country residence near Oxford, where many representatives of the business world were also invited
On Friday morning, the two leaders must meet to go inspect the s troops at the prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, before bilateral talks and a lunch at Checkers, the country residence of British Prime Ministers, 70 km northwest of London.
A joint press conference is then
In addition to trade, exchanges between Trump and May will focus on the Middle East and Russia, as the billionaire prepares to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in a summit in Helsinki on Monday
The president and his wife are then expected at the Windsor Palace, about 30 kilometers west of London, to have tea with Elizabeth II.
This course will keep him away from protests in London against his arrival, which should culminate with a rally of tens of thousands of people in Trafalgar Square to denounce the migration policy of Trump, his "badi sme "and his" denial "of climate change
In the morning, a giant balloon representing a Donald Trump in diaper will float in the London sky near Parliament.
Demonstrations of dissatisfaction against the American president have started as of Thursday, with a rally in front of the residence of the American ambbadador in London.
"Donald Trump is not welcome!" have chanted heart the few hundred protesters gathered in front of the grates of Winfield House, located in Regent's Park.
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