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A rough patch in the “special relationship”

• “I didn’t criticize the prime minister,” President Trump said today after a tabloid published an interview in which he questioned how Prime Minister Theresa May had handled negotiations on Britain’s departure from the European Union.

The two leaders appeared to be emphasizing unity at a news conference at the prime minister’s country estate, after the president said of Mrs. May’s Brexit plans: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me.”

He struck a different tone today: “I don’t know what they’re going to do, but whatever you do is O.K. with me — that’s their decision.”