Trump says UK visit is off due to ‘off location’ of London’s US embassy
London — US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will no longer attend the opening of the new US embassy in London, a move welcomed by critics in Britain who had planned mass protests. He wrote on Twitter that he was abandoning the trip — initially scheduled for next month — because he did not like the location and price tag of the new building. "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," Trump wrote. "Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!" Trump has also been offered a state visit to Britain, and Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said on Friday that nothing has changed, although no date has been set. There had been strong opposition to the invitation, at first because of Trump’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, and then, most recently, his retweet of a far-right o...
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