Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shrugged off suggestions that anti-Muslim videos President Trump spread online Wednesday morning might be fake – because the 'threat' is real.

'Whether it is a real video, the threat is real,' President Trump's top spokesperson told journalists outside the West Wing, according to CNN. 'That is what the president is talking about, that is what the president is focused on dealing with, those real threats and those are real no matter how you look at it.'

President Trump retweeted three videos that purportedly showed 'Muslims' doing bad deeds, which were initially posted by far-right British nationalist Jayda Fransen, who has been convicted of hate crimes.

None of the videos posted by Fransen – who is the deputy leader of Britain First, a group that stands against the Islamisation of the United Kingdom – have been verified, with police saying that a 'Muslim migrant' portrayed in one, is a Dutch citizen.

Trump's postings have caused outrage in the United Kingdom, as a number of members of parliament have said they want to see his invitation to visit the country next year rescinded. However, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said the visit will go on.

In the United States, media figures have condemned Trump's actions louder than American lawmakers.

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President Trump retweeted three videos posted by a far-right British leader, known for her rabid Islamophobia

The first video President Trump posted depicted 'Muslim migrant' according to Jayda Fransen, beating up a 'Dutch boy on crutches.' Dutch authorities have told MailOnline the 'migrant' is a Dutch national

The second video shows a 'Muslim man' speaking to the camera and then bashing a statue of Virgin Mary on the ground, shattering her

The third video President Trump retweeted shows an 'Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!'

The videos were posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right group that stands against the Islamisation of the United Kingdom

Huckabee Sanders said the president retweeted the three videos to start a conversation on 'border security' and 'immigration.'

The first video purportedly shows a 'Muslim migrant' beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. A spokesman for the Monnickendam Police, where the incident took place, told MailOnline: 'The boy in the video attacking a boy on crutches is a Dutch national.'

After that, Trump retweets a video of a Muslim man 'destroy[ing] a statue of Virgin Mary.'

And finally, the American president retweeted a video Fransen posted where she wrote, 'Islamist mob pushed teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!'

The third video depicted a gristly scene from the 2013 Egyptian coup as the teenage victims were celebrating Islamist president Mohamed Morsi being deposed by the country's army.

One of the perpetrators of the crime, which took place in Alexandria, was carrying an Al Qaeda flag.

How Fransen's tweets got on Trump's radar is still somewhat of a mystery.

'I haven’t talked to him about that,' answered White House principle deputy press secretary Raj Shah when asked about the tweets' source aboard Air Force One. 'Look, we are not going to be focusing on process. I know you guys want to. We are going to be focusing on the issues.'

Shah pivoted and said the president was talking about 'safety and security' along with 'extreme vetting' when asked by Trump had retweeted content from a far-right leader.

Last year, Fransen was found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment after accosting a Muslim woman.

The charge stemmed from a January 2016 incident in which Fransen, wearing a political uniform and during a so-called 'Christian patrol,' accosted a Muslim woman named Sumayyah Sharpe in Luton, England.

Fransen admitted that she told Sharpe, who was wearing a hijab, that Muslim men force women to cover up to avoid rape 'because they cannot control their sexual urges.'

'That's why they are coming into my country raping women across the continent,' Fransen told Sharpe, according to the Independent.

Sharpe was in front of her four children at the time.

Last week, Fransen was also charged with using 'threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior' for a speech she made at a 'Northern Ireland Against Terrorism' event in August at Belfast City Hall, according to HuffPost.

Fransen's Twitter account sent out a gleeful message after the president retweeted her videos.

'THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS!' the tweet said. 'GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP!'

For his part, Trump has been blasted for rhetoric considered anti-Muslim.

In December 2015, on the heels of the San Bernardino terror attack, the GOP candidate called for an all-out ban of Muslims from entering the United States.

'Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,' Trump put out in a press release that he also read aloud at a campaign event.

Once in office, Trump's Muslim ban evolved into a travel ban from a selection of Muslim-majority countries, though has had trouble in the courts.

As Trump's tweets began to reverberate around the internet, those in American government, politics and media began to chime in.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke praised Trump for his Islamophobic messaging.

'Trump retweets video of crippled white kid in Europe being beaten by migrants, and white people being thrown off a roof and then beaten to death, He's condemned for showing us what the fake news media WON'T,' Duke tweeted. 'Thank God for Trump! That's why we love him!'

Duke's retort stood out, as his accolades put him in the extreme minority.

Council on American-Islamic Relations head Nihad Awad tweeted Wednesday: 'Have you no sense of decency, Sir? Do you know how many anti-Muslims incidents in the U.S. were recorded at #CAIR this year alone? 3,296.'

'And we haven't heard a peep from you,' Awad continued. 'Some president.'

In a longer statement, Awad added that Trump was telling members of his base 'that they should hate Islam and Muslims.'

'These are actions one would expect to see on virulent anti-Muslim hate sites, not on the Twitter feed of the president of the United States,' Awad said. 'Trump’s posts amount to incitement to violence against American Muslims.'

'His actions should be condemned by all American political and religious leaders, regardless of their party or faith,' he added.

Asked about it on CNN, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the retweets 'bizarre and disturbing.'

'And particularly when I think of him doing that in the context of North Korea, where moderation and temperance and thought, I think, is critical,' Clapper said.

'I have no idea of explaining what, on earth, motivated it,' the ex-DNI chief added, though warned it could rattle relations with American allies around the world.

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod also whacked Trump on Twitter.

'The @POTUS this morning retweeted unverified, inflammatory anti-videos posted by a neo-fascist party in Britain. The President of the United States! Think about that,' Axelrod wrote.

Congressional responses, however, were slow to trickle in.

Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia, was one of the first lawmakers to respond to Trump's retweets on Twitter Wednesday morning.

'It isn’t surprising that Donald Trump, author of the Muslim Ban, spread propaganda from a person convicted of harassing Muslims,' Beyer wrote.

'It is shocking and awful to see such Islamophobia from the president of a country which protects religious freedom and is home to millions of Muslims,' the Democratic congressman added.

He was soon joined by Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut.

'There are more than 3 million Muslim Americans,' Himes wrote. '[President Trump's] disgusting and dangerous retweets this morning show how important it is that we defend not only our democracy, but basic human decency from this man.'

Sen. Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican who is leaving office at the end of his term in part so he can become a thorn in Trump's side, called the postings 'very inappropriate.'

Flake added that he was 'flummoxed.'

American media figures were more quick to condemn the president's move.

'Trump has railed against "illegals," African American athletes, used slur Pocahontas and shared anti-Muslim videos this week. It's Wednesday,' tweeted CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta.

On Monday, Trump used his derogatory nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 'Pocahontas,' at an event where he was supposed to be honoring Navajo code talkers, who saved countless Americans during World War II.

Needless to say, the missive wasn't well received in the room.

'Jayda Fransen is a wretched human being and no matter what expectations one has for him, it's revolting and actually shocking that Trump is re-tweeting multiple hate-mongering videos from her of random Muslims doing bad things,' wrote The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald.

In the United Kingdom, officials are facing pressure to cancel Trump's state visit in the aftermath of his trio of retweets.

The widower of murdered politician Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed by a man yelling, 'Britain First,' strongly condemned Trump's actions.

'Trump has legitimized the far right in his own country, now he's trying to do it in ours,' said Brendan Cox on Wednesday. 'Spreading hatred has consequences and the president should be ashamed of himself.'

The Labour Party's Mary Creagh, a member of parliament, tweeted, 'He is not welcome here,' after reminding people what Cox's killer had said.

She was joined by Chuka Umunna, another parliament member from the Labour Party, who told Sky News, 'I don't think the president of the United States, a president who has not only promoted bigotry, misogyny and racism in his own country, I don't think he is welcome here.'

'I think the invite that has been made to him to come to our country in early 2018 should be withdrawn,' Umunna continued. 'What we see here is a president retweeting and promoting the propaganda of a far right racist bigoted group, members of which have been arrested and convicted for promoting hatred in this country.'

'I am absolutely astounded that a man – any person – in his position holding the office that he does should be promoting the propaganda of a far right British group,' Umunna added.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan – the city's first Muslim mayor – who has tussled with Trump over the president's so-called travel ban, said, 'Britain First is a vile, hate-fueled organization whose views should be condemned, not amplified.'

British Prime Minister Theresa May frowned at Trump's actions, however did not rescind an invitation to spend time in the United Kingdom next year.

'It is wrong for the president to have done this,' a spokesman for Downing Street said.

When asked about Trump's future travel plans to the U.K., the spokesman said, 'The United States is one of our oldest and closest allies. An invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted. Further details will be announced in due course.'