London — Donald Trump is persona non grata in Britain. Ever since Theresa May extended an invitation to the president to come visit the Queen, he has rankled the nation with his off-the-cuff comments about terrorist attacks in Britain, and now with his latest provocation: sharing far-right videos and then lashing out against the prime minister for telling him he was wrong. "Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine," Trump tweeted, in an unprecedented public attack on America’s closest security ally. Trump’s unrepentant response was a reaction to May’s spokesman who on Wednesday criticised his retweets of anti-Islam videos originally posted by a leader of a British far-right fringe group. "It is wrong for the president to have done this," the spokesman said. Trump sparked criticism on both sides of the Atlantic on Wednesday by sharing anti-Muslim videos posted by J...
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