British Labour Party Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry during an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show | Jeff Overs/BBC via Getty Images Trump is a racist ‘asteroid of awfulness,’ says senior British MP UK Labour politicians spoke out against US president on Sunday.

U.S. President Donald Trump is an "asteroid of awfulness," as well as a "racist," British Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry told the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday.

"He is an asteroid of awfulness that has fallen on this world," Thornberry said. "I think that he is a danger and I think that he is a racist."

Thornberry's comments follow reports that Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries” and expressed an interest in welcoming immigrants from Norway instead.

The Labour MP also dismissed Marr’s suggestion that Britain needs to keep Trump happy in order to work out a trade deal with the U.S. The fact that Trump said he could orchestrate a deal in a matter of weeks means "he doesn’t show he has a real grasp of what a trade deal is. These things take years,” said Thornberry, adding that there are others in the U.S. government to talk to about getting a deal in place.

Meanwhile, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV’s Peston on Sunday he wasn’t disappointed — nor surprised — that Trump canceled his trip to the U.K. to open a new U.S. embassy in London. “The reaction against him would be huge,” Corbyn said.

Corbyn also downplayed the significance of the U.K.’s relationship with the U.S., saying: "I think there are many important relationships."

In late November, British Prime Minister Theresa May doled out her own criticism of Trump after he retweeted videos from a far-right British organization depicting Muslims as dangerous, while the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and other politicians called for Trump's official state visit to be canceled.