ON Friday morning Donald Trump tweeted that he was cancelling his trip to open the new US embassy building in London - because he didn't like where it had been built.
Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
Trump never actually confirmed that he would be travelling to London to open the embassy, a new $1.2 billion facility located in Nine Elms, south of the Thames, that was approved under the Bush regime (not Obama).
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The hashtag #ICancelledMyTripToLondon began trending on Twitter shortly after, as other Twitter users threw tantrums over equally implausble reasons for "cancelling" a trip to the UK's capital city.
Here are some of our favourites so far.
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because this map makes no sense. BAD! pic.twitter.com/ar53RePN9Y
— Tim Ireland (@bloggerheads) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because they have something called FOX hunting and FOX is the only respectable news media. SAD.
— Claire (@herwithwords) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon today because I've found out the Wombles of Wimbledon DON'T make the best use of the things that they find.
— Father Of Egon (@FatherOfEgon) January 12, 2018
Sad! pic.twitter.com/ZPFUGEsOTG
Because I found out that Clinton has a card shop there.#ICancelledMyTripToLondon
— Elric Cadwallader (@LifeOfElric) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because my advisers - great advisers, the best - sang me that London's burning, and they're fetching the engines, and there's fire fire. Probably because of their terror problem. UNSAFE.
— Rachel Delahaye Lefever (@RachelDelahaye) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because it turns out there is a London in Ohio, much closer, smart!
— Creeping Naughtiness (@mellowshade) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because I found out they sell giant buttons and my buttons bigger pic.twitter.com/leuuZW2m4V
— ste skillen (@stevenskillen) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because Piccadilly Circus doesn't even have clowns. FAKE NEWS!
— Rachael Eyre (@Alrightpunk) January 12, 2018
#ICancelledMyTripToLondon because I found that Paddington bear is an undocumented migrant from Peru pic.twitter.com/rPCEIGdlEu
— Ghosted G (@g_ghosted) January 12, 2018
Despite his Twitter tantrum this morning, many suspect the real reason Trump cancelled his visit was to avoid the mass protests that are guaranteed to greet him on arrival.
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