DONALD Trump has reportedly changed his mind about coming to Britain.
According to The Guardian, the US President declined the Queen’s invitation to come to the UK for a formal state visit because people here don’t like him very much.
Trump is said to have told Theresa May in a phone call that he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public is more welcoming.
In the call, made in recent weeks, he told the Prime Minister he did not want to visit now and cause large-scale protests.
The paper, whose sources were in the room as the Prime Minister spoke to the President, say Trump’s statement surprised the Tory leader.
May formally invited Trump to visit the UK when she flew to Washington seven days after the half-Scottish tycoon was inaugurated.
She had been embarrassed after Nigel Farage managed to secure an audience with Trump just days after he had been elected.
The former Ukip leader has a good relationship with key staff in the White House and the US president even tweeted a suggestion that Farage should be made ambassador.
In a bid to take back control of the transatlantic relationship and arrange some sort of post-Brexit trade deal, May flew to the States to embark on a charm offensive.
There she told a joint press conference she had extended an invitation from the Queen to Trump and his wife Melania to make a state visit later in the year and was “delighted that the president has accepted that invitation”.
That invite sparked outrage.
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow took the unprecedent step of saying Trump should not address Parliament during the trip.
About two million people signed a petition against the state visit, saying it would embarrass the Queen.
Recent reports had suggested Trump’s state visit was going to take place in Scotland in a bid to avoid protesters.
The Daily Mail said palace and government planners wanted to shift much of the US president’s trip – originally pencilled in for the first week in June – to the Queen’s residence at Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, in October.
A senior Whitehall source told the paper: “The Americans have asked to push it back.
“They don’t want what will be one of his first big foreign trips to be overshadowed.”
Trump’s mother Mary was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis, and he owns two golf courses in the country.
Nicola Sturgeon was one of the first to call for his state visit to be cancelled in retaliation for his “deeply wrong” Muslim travel ban.
The delay would have also meant Parliament being recess, making it impossible for MPs to “snub” the President by refusing him the honour of making an address.
However, there is a possibility Britain could have another general election in October.
Trump has named Woody Johnson, a Republican donor and owner of the New York Jets, as the new ambassador to the UK.
Like with many other position in the administration, Johnson has not yet been formally nominated by the Trump team.
Last week only 41 of Trump’s 111 nominees had cleared the Senate, according to data compiled by the Partnership for Public Service, a non-partisan, non-profit organisation that has tracked presidential appointments since 1989.
The president has about 4,000 posts to fill, including about 1,100 heads of agencies, ambassadors and other critical leadership roles.
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