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WASHINGTON — American diplomats have dropped plans for President Donald Trump to visit Britain in January, amid a war of words between the countries’ leaders.

The president had been pencilled in for a “working visit” in the new year to open the new U.S. embassy in London. The trip, a scaled-down version of a state visit with no meeting with the Queen, was intended to allow Trump to come to the U.K. and avoid the mass protests a full state visit would likely trigger.

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However, the trip has been postponed indefinitely, with no new date planned. A senior U.S. diplomat said: “The idea of a visit has obviously been floated, but not December and not January. I would not expect a Trump visit in January.”

It comes with relations between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Trump deteriorating in a public spat over the president’s tweeting of videos posted by Britain First, a far-right Group.

May Thursday used her first public comments on the matter to rebuke Trump. During a visit to Jordan, May said: “Retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do.”