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British Prime Minister May holds a gala dinner for the US President. Shortly after, the "Sun" publishes an interview with Trump – who is a single broadside against May.
US President Donald J. Trump (right) and British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) arriving at the gala dinner at Blenheim Palace on July 12. (Photo: Will Oliver, International Pool / EPA)
[dpa] In an unprecedented interview on his first visit as US President to the United Kingdom, Donald Trump attacked Premier Theresa May and her Brexit strategy. Trump threatened Britain in the British tabloid newspaper "The Sun" with the failure of a potential trade deal with the United States if the United Kingdom was to remain too closely linked to the United States. # 39; EU. May's plans include a customs union and a free trade agreement with the European Union
The Sun aired excerpts from the interview and quotes written Thursday night – shortly after May Trump at Blenheim Palace near Oxford for a festive gala dinner. had received. Trump's answers to the interview were not to be inferred, not the questions he mentioned.
Trump praised former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who had resigned Monday over the course of May. He does not play in May against his rival, said the US president. "I'm just saying that I think he's a great prime minister." Trump added, referring to Johnson, "He has what it takes, and I think he has the right attitude to be a great prime minister."
Trump said that a too close link with the European Union after Brexit would mean that the United States should negotiate with the EU in a trade deal with Britain. "We have enough problems with the European Union, we are currently against the European Union because they have not treated the United States equitably with the United States." He added to the United States in view of a possible trade deal with the United Kingdom: it is likely to kill the case. "
Trump commented on Brexit's May strategy, saying," I would have done it very differently. I told Theresa May how to do it, but she did not listen to me. (…) I would say that she probably chose the opposite way. That's good, she should negotiate how she can do it better. However, Brexit de May's agreement was no longer about what the British would vote in the referendum.
Protesters gather in front of Blenheim Palace, where US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania attended a gala dinner hosted by hostess Theresa May on the 12th July. (Photo: Matt Cardy / Getty Images)
Criticism of European Migration Policy
In the interview, Trump again strongly criticized what he saw as a generous migration policy in Europe. Immigration was "a shame," he said. "I think that she has changed the structure of Europe, and unless you act very quickly, it will never be what she was, and I do not say that. positively. " He added: "Millions of people Permitting to come to Europe is very, very sad, I think you are losing your culture."
Trump also severely attacked London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Khan is a outspoken critic of the American president. "I think he's done a very bad job on terrorism, a very bad job on crime," Trump said. In recent years, several terrorist attacks have occurred in London
British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip (right) with US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania (left). (Photo: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)
According to the Sun, the interview took place Wednesday before the NATO summit at the US Embassy in Brussels. The paper belongs to the media empire of Robert Murdoch, who would have a great influence on Trump's policies
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