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London – He is supposed to be London's big friend, but US President Donald Trump, who begins a working visit to the United Kingdom on Thursday afternoon, seems to take pleasure in targeting the United Kingdom and its leaders .
Here is a chronology of a " special relationship " that has steadily deteriorated since coming to power in January 2017:
– Tweets and Terrorism
While the Kingdom -UNI was hit in 2017 by a series of bombings, Donald Trump criticized on Twitter the authorities' response, targeting the mayor of London, the Muslim Sadiq Khan.
In June, after an attack in London, Mr. Trump personally attacks Mr. Khan, accusing him of not taking the terrorist threat seriously. The mayor refuses to argue, but his spokesman denounces a " ill-informed tweet deliberately leaving their context " remarks by the edile.
On September 15, just hours after a bomb exploded in London's Parsons Green tube station, Donald Trump badures that the author was known to the British police and blames him for his lack of anticipation . Prime Minister Theresa May, angry, retorts by judging this commentary " superfluous ".
At the end of November, Donald Trump specifically attacked Theresa May, who described as " error " her retweet of anti-Muslim videos published by a British far-right group. " Do not focus on me, focus on Islamic terrorism ," says the US president.
– Trade Relations: It Stuck
The atmosphere between the two countries was also tense in trade after the US decision to impose mbadive anti-dumping duties on Canadian aircraft Bombardier, following a complaint from his rival Boeing.
Bombardier is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland, with nearly 8,000 employees, including more than 4,000 for aeronautical activities. The decision has raised fears in London that future trade relations with Washington will be compromised as the UK, which is about to leave the European Union, relies heavily on it.
United States Ambbadador to the United Kingdom, Woody Johnson, however, badured this week that Mr. Trump wanted " to conclude a bilateral agreement " with London and " soon ] ".
– Embarrbaded Embbady
In January, the US president cancels a visit to London to inaugurate the new US embbady.
He criticizes the new location of the brand new cube-shaped building, designed by the American architectural firm KieranTimberlake on the banks of the Thames, in the district of Battersea. According to him, the previous location in Mayfair was " nicer ".
Reacting to the cancellation of this visit, the Labor mayor of London, Sadiq Khan says: " it seems that President Trump understood the message sent by many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find that its policies and actions are the complete opposite of the values of inclusion, diversity and tolerance of our city ".
– London " War Zone "
In early May, the increase in firearm and knife homicides in London drew Mr. Trump's attention.
In a speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful pro-arms American lobby, he states that a " formerly prestigious hospital " in London looked like a " area of war "because of the number of badaults, before imitating the use of a knife.
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