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WhoreMods -> RE: Another Leftist Trash Lie (1/12/2018 8:05:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
He wasn't lying, he's just a fucking idiot.
He didn't want to go to the UK because he is rightly despised there.
Yes. This is the way that the cancellation is being reported in UK media:
Donald Trump has cancelled a visit to Britain next month to open the new US embassy in London, amid fears of mass protests.
The president claimed on Twitter that the reason for calling off the trip was his displeasure at Barack Obama having sold the current embassy for “peanuts” and built a replacement for $1bn (£750m). “Bad deal,” he wrote.
But the embassy’s plan to move from Mayfair to Nine Elms in London was first reported in October 2008, when George W Bush was still president.
The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said Trump had “got the message” that many Londoners staunchly opposed his policies and actions.
“It appears that President Trump got the message from the many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find his policies and actions the polar opposite of our city’s values of inclusion, diversity and tolerance,” Khan said on Friday.
“His visit next month would without doubt have been met by mass peaceful protests. This just reinforces what a mistake it was for Theresa May to rush and extend an invitation of a state visit in the first place.”
The prime minister invited Trump for a state visit when she became the first world leader to visit the president in the White House a year ago. Activists immediately pledged to stage protests and MPs have said they would not give the president the opportunity to address parliament.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/donald-trump-visit-to-london-called-off-amid-fears-of-mass-protests
So Trump's stated reason collapses under scrutiny, while London's Mayor seems in to be in no doubt that the threat of mass opposition caused the cancellation. I am sure that any open-minded person can decide which of those two is the more credible ....
There's also been talk of a low key state visit, without a lot of media hooplah and making a big deal of the presidential pisspot in order to try to sneak the visit past the protestors without anybody noticing. That won't have suited the man whose flabby orange face is in many dictionaries as a definition of "narcissist", would it?
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