Below please find an article from today's copy of The Guardian concerning President Trump's visit to our closest ally. Can someone tell me how this will help US-British relations or even the US for that matter or ids this another example of "fake news?" Is the US president’s outburst to the Sun simply bad manners, or his latest attempt to undermine an old ally? He once likened his relationship with Theresa May to that between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Presumably that comparison is now cancelled. Donald Trump has once again torn up standard etiquette for diplomacy by turning up, not with flowers or a bottle of wine – but a verbal grenade. As he was setting off for his first visit to the UK as American president, he told the Sun that he advised Theresa May “how to do” Brexit but “she didn’t listen to me”. He also warned that a soft Brexit will probably kill any hope of a separate US-UK trade deal, which was supposed to be a centrepiece of Friday’s talks at Chequers. And to add insult to injury, he suggested that May’s nemesis, Boris Johnson, would “make a great prime minister”. Clearly, when in 2016 Trump declared himself “Mr Brexit”, he should have been taken both seriously and literally. His ego and belief in his own deal-making skills are such that he apparently thought he alone could fix it. Few observers believe that he has studied the vast mounds of paperwork or the complex web of laws involved. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...mp-sun-interview-theresa-may-brexit-criticism
How can it be fake news if it is true? "President Donald Trump on Friday attempted to clean up his criticism of British Prime Minister Theresa May and the country’s Brexit negotiations by blaming the “fake news.” “It didn’t put what I said about the prime minister,” Trump said during a news conference with May, referring to an interview he’d given The Sun, a British tabloid. “It’s called fake news.” The Sun is owned by the conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Trump-friendly Fox News. In denying that he criticized May, Trump suggested that a recording of the interview would prove his case. However, The Sun published an audio recording of the interview that included the remarks Trump claimed he did not say." https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-theresa-may-brexit-132535363.html
