INTERVIEW TO SUN IS FAKE, SAYS TRUMP
Aylesbury, UK, July 13: US President Donald Trump on Friday denied criticising British Prime Minister Theresa May, dismissing as “fake news” an interview in which he attacked her Brexit strategy.
“I didn’t criticise the Prime Minister... It’s called fake news,” he said after the interview in Friday’s edition of The Sun newspaper.
Ms May’s plan for Brexit would “probably kill” the prospects for a free trade deal with the United States, Mr Trump had reportedly said in the interview.
Aylesbury, United Kingdom, July 13: US President Donald Trump on Friday denied criticising British Prime Minister Theresa May, dismissing as “fake news” an interview in which he attacked her Brexit strategy.
“I didn’t criticise the prime minister... It’s called fake news,” he said after the interview in Friday’s edition of The Sun newspaper.
In the interview he claimed she had ignored his advice on Brexit and praised former foreign secretary Boris Johnson’s potential as a possible premier. His comments were condemned by British politicians as it delivered an astonishing political knifing of May, comprehensively undermining her fragile position in Britain’s tortuous negotiations on leaving the European Union next year.
Addressing a joint press conference at the end of their bilateral talks at the prime minister’s country residence, Chequers, Trump said, “She’s a total professional.” “I said, ‘I want to apologise because I said such good things about you,’ And she said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s only the press,’” Trump said of their purported conversation.
He said Brexit was an “incredible opportunity” and “whatever” the UK did after it left the EU was “OK with me”.
— Agencies