Washington (CNN) US President Donald Trump touched down in the United Kingdom Thursday and spoke with a major British tabloid where he differed with British Prime Minister Theresa May on her approach to Brexit.

"I told her how to do it. That will be up to her to say. But I told her how to do it. She wanted to go a different route," Trump said, according to audio of an interview posted by The Sun

Trump said May "didn't listen" to his views on how she should negotiate the UK's exit from the European Union, but said that was "fine."

"She should negotiate the best way she knows how, but it's too bad what's going on," Trump said.

Trump's comments in the interview are an extraordinary criticism of a foreign leader during a trip to that leader's country. Trump was greeted by May in a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance Thursday evening just hours before the interview was released.

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