Trump hits out at UK PM Theresa May after far-right video tweets
Donald Trump has told UK Prime
Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she
criticised his sharing of far-right videos.
"Don't focus on me,
focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place
within the United Kingdom," Mr Trump tweeted.
The US president had earlier retweeted three inflammatory videos posted online by a British far-right group.
Mrs May's spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this".
The
US and the UK are close allies and often described as having a "special
relationship". Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit the
Trump White House.
.@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2017
The videos shared by Mr Trump, who has more than 40 million
followers, were initially posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of
Britain First, a group founded by former members of the far-right
British National Party (BNP).
Ms Fransen, 31, has been charged in
the UK with using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour"
over speeches she made at a rally in Belfast.
Several leading UK
politicians have criticised the president for retweeting her posts, as
has the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said it was "deeply
disturbing" that Mr Trump had "chosen to amplify the voice of far-right
extremists".
And it has led to renewed calls for Mr Trump's
planned state visit to the UK to be cancelled, although Downing Street
said on Wednesday that the invitation still stood.
In hitting out
at Mrs May, Mr Trump first tagged the wrong Twitter account, sending his
statement to a different user with just six followers. He then deleted
the tweet and posted it again, this time directing the message to the UK
PM's official account.
BBC
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