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US cancels Trump’s visit to UK after anti-Muslim tweet backlash

US diplomats have canceled President Trump’s unofficial visit to Britain in January, according to a report Thursday.

The decision was made in the wake of Trump’s retweeting of three anti-Muslim videos from a far-right group, Britain’s Telegraph reported

Trump had scheduled a “working visit” in early 2018 to formally open the United States’ new embassy in London, and was not scheduled to meet with the Queen.

No new date has been set.

“The idea of a visit has obviously been floated, but not December and not January. I would not expect a Trump visit in January,” a senior US diplomat told the newspaper.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has chastised Trump for the tweets, saying it was “wrong” to have shared the videos. She also denounced the group behind the tweets, Britain First, as a “hateful organization.”

But May did not withdraw Trump’s invitation to come to Britain for a full-blown state visit sometime in the future.





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