President Trump in the UK

President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May got along very well during their dinner Thursday at Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom, a source with knowledge of the discussions told CNN. 

The two “never bonded better,” and talked almost the whole night, the source added. 

During May’s speech at dinner, Trump’s “eyes lit up” at her words and talk about the relationship between the two countries. That likely made him more amenable to apologize to May about the comments he made about May to The Sun, the source said.

The dinner took place around the same time Trump’s interview with The Sun was published.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, where they will spend the weekend at his golf club in Turnberry.

Air Force One landed at Prestwick Airport at 8:22 p.m. local time (3:22 p.m. ET).

Trump owns two high-profile courses in Scotland: the Trump International Golf Links situated amid the dunes of Aberdeen and Trump Turnberry in the southwest.

President Trump is on his way to Glasgow, Scotland, for the weekend.

A White House official told CNN earlier the President’s flight had been delayed because he was talking with British journalist Piers Morgan.

Some of it was a private conversation, but some of it also was an interview. 

London’s Metropolitan Police tweeted that Regent Street — one of the main streets where protesters were marching against President Trump’s UK visit — and others around the city have reopened after this morning’s rallies.

Here’s what regent street looked like this morning during the protests:

President Trump just wrapped up his two-day tour of England. Tea with the Queen was the last scheduled event.

He’ll spend the weekend in Scotland, where his mother was born. He also owns two high-profile courses in Scotland: the Trump International Golf Links situated amid the dunes of Aberdeen and Trump Turnberry in the southwest.

On Monday, President Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump departed Windsor Castle after 48 minutes inside, CNN’s Kate Bennett reports.

The Trumps were there for tea with Queen Elizabeth II. Here’s footage of their motorcade leaving the castle:

Ann-Marie Fields, 44, attended today’s protest in London wearing a shirt that reads, “I really do care. Don’t u?” — a protest slogan that’s become popular at anti-Trump administration rallies in the US.

The shirt is a reference to the controversial jacket Melania Trump wore on the day she visited a US facility holding immigrant children separated from their families. The first lady’s Zara coat read “I really don’t care. Do u?”

In the days after Trump wore the jacket, American protesters rallying against family separations at the US border began wearing similar shirts. Many were spotting at the June 30 immigration rallies.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders shared a photo of President Trump sitting in former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s seat at Chequers.

Current British prime minister Theresa May hosted Trump at Chequers, the British prime minister’s country retreat, this morning. They held a bilateral meeting and then took questions at a news conference.

Trump is fond of Churchill: In 2017, he restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office immediately after assuming the presidency.

Here’s the photo:

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle by Range Rover promptly at 5:00 p.m. local (12 p.m. ET).

The Trumps greeted the Queen, then stood for the US National Anthem. The President and First Lady placed their hands on their hearts while the Queen held her hands and bowed her head.

The President and the Queen inspected the front rank of the Guard of Honor. The two then returned to a platform at the front as the military marched.

The Queen chatted with the President and first lady as planes were heard overhead.

Trump and the Queen chatted as they walked toward Windsor Castle, the first lady trailing closely behind. They entered the castle for tea at 5:10 p.m.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump just met Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle for the first time.

After shaking hands, the three stood for the US National Anthem.

President Trump is on his way to Windsor Castle to have tea with Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen has met 10 of the 11 US Presidents since she took the throne. She met Harry Truman when she was princess in 1951.

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President Trump is on his way to Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, to meet Queen Elizabeth II.

People have lined the streets in Windsor. Several are holding signing welcoming the President.

Protesters are still marching through the streets of London to protest President Trump’s visit.

Natasha Forrester shot this video from her fourth floor office: 

CNN reporter Betsy Klein is on Regent Street in London now, where massive anti-Trump protests are happening ahead of the President’s meeting with the Queen.

Some protesters in London have dressed up like handmaids from “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Nicola Davidson, 42, and Julie Andrews, 53 (pictured above) said the world today is becoming like the Handmaid’s Tale.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” — both a 1985 book by Margaret Atwood and a Hulu TV series — takes place in a dystopia called the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian society, formerly known as the US, where a class of women called the handmaids are subjugated and used only for reproduction.

Britain’s The Sun newspaper is defending its reporting of a bombshell interview with President Donald Trump, not long after the President called the report “fake news.”

Here’s the statement on its website from a spokesman for The Sun:

“We stand by our reporting and the quotes we used – including those where the President was positive about the Prime Minister, in both the paper and in our audio – and we’re delighted that the President essentially retracted his original charge against the paper later in the press conference. To say the President called us ‘fake news’ with any serious intent is, well… fake news.”

President Trump denied earlier Friday that he criticized British Prime Minister Theresa May, the day after the British tabloid published an interview with him in which he did just that.

He dismissed the interview, conducted by a Rupert Murdoch-owned publication, as “fake news,” saying it didn’t include his comments praising May.

Trump also said Friday he apologized to May for the interview, though it appears his apology was about the paper’s omission of his comments praising her, not his criticism.

“She is a total professional because when I saw her I said, ‘I want to apologize, because I said such good things about you,’ ” Trump said.

Trump said May said, “Don’t worry, it’s only the press.”

British Prime Minister Theresa May gave President Trump “an illustrated ancestral chart” of his Scottish heritage, the British government said in a statement. The chart follows Trump’s lineage through his mother, who was born in 1912 on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. 

“President Trump is the first US president for over 100 years with a parent born in the UK. This gift underlines the deep historical links that many modern-day Americans have with the United Kingdom,” the statement read.

The Prime Minister and her husband also gave Melania Trump a “bespoke perfume” — called The First Lady — by J Floris Ltd. It was engraved with her initials.  

Demonstrators are protesting throughout London today as President Trump visits the country.

One group gathered outside the BBC in central London’s Portland Place at 11 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) for a demonstration branded “Bring the Noise,” led by the Women’s March London.

Another group pf protesters released a giant, orange-hued balloon of a “Trump Baby” in a diaper over Britain’s Houses of Parliament early Friday morning, in what organizers said was an attempt to speak to the leader “in a language that he understands, which is personal insults.”

Aerial footage and images showed London streets packed with demonstrators.

Scottish newspaper the Scotsman called Trump a “racist” and a “serial liar” in an editorial that is running during the President’s UK visit.

“Donald Trump, due to arrive in the UK later today, is a racist, a serial liar, and either a sex abuser or someone who falsely brags about being one in the apparent belief that this will impress other men in a metaphorical ‘locker room.’” 

The editorial also pointed out Trump’s criticism of NFL players who protest the National Anthem, his claims the former President Barack Obama was not born in the US and his frequent cries of “fake news.”

“As British politicians hide their distaste in an attempt to get a much-needed post-Brexit trade deal, we should all remember what kind of man Trump really is.”

“We don’t want you”

The Scotsman isn’t the only critical cover Trump could see when he lands in Scotland.

The Daily Record ran this front page today, telling President Trump: “We don’t want you.”

President Donald Trump again falsely claimed on Friday that he predicted the Brexit vote results ahead of the referendum during a visit to his Turnberry golf course in Scotland in 2016.

“Well, if you remember, I was opening Turnberry the day before Brexit,” Trump said, “and I said, ‘What’s going on?’ And all they wanted to talk about was Brexit and they asked for my opinion and I think you will agree that I said I think Brexit will happen. And it did happen. And then we cut the ribbon.”

What Trump actually said: The then-presumptive Republican nominee hailed the UK’s shock decision to “reassert control over their own politics, borders and economy” the day after Brexit, calling the decision of the voters “a great thing.”

“They’re angry over borders, they’re angry over people coming into the country and taking over. Nobody even knows who they are,” he said. “They’re angry about many, many things. They took back control of their country.”

The UK newspaper The Sun has released a portion of audio from its interview with President Donald Trump in which he criticized Prime Minister Theresa May’s “soft Brexit” negotiations.

Trump told the press the paper’s coverage of his interview was “fake news,” that it left out or failed to highlight his positive remarks about May, and that he had apologized to the Prime Minister over it – though she told him not to worry as “it’s just the press.”

Here’s a portion of what they’ve released. Overall, the paper released about eight and a half minutes of audio, though the article specifies that the interview lasted 28 minutes.

President Trump said he apologized to Prime Minister Theresa May this morning over the interview with The Sun, in which Trump said May had ignored his advice on Brexit and praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

“She’s a total professional,” Trump said. “I said, ‘I want to apologize 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.

Trump added that he wished the paper put the “tremendous things” he said about May in its headline, but acknowledged, “That’s one of those things.”

President Trump described the US-UK relationship as the “highest level of special,” before saying British Prime Minister Theresa May may have seen suggestions he gave her about Brexit as “too brutal.”

“I would give our relationship with the UK, and now especially that have two days with your prime minister, I would say the highest level of special,” Trump said.

Then Trump turned to suggestions he gave May about how to handle Brexit.

What Trump said to a British newspaper: The President on Thursday night delivered an astonishing political knifing of the British Prime Minister, comprehensively undermining her fragile position in Britain’s tortuous negotiations on leaving the European Union and getting his visit to the country off to the most explosive of starts.

In an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sun, Trump said May had ignored his advice on Brexit, he praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who has just walked out of her Cabinet over the issue – and he said May’s cherished hope of a free trade deal with the US would be killed off by her softened approach.

President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor President Barack Obama for the Russian annexation of Crimea and claimed Crimea would not have been annexed had he been President then.

When pressed as to how he will now resolve the issue since he is now President, Trump said, “We will look at that just like I’m looking at many other disasters I’ve taken over.”

President Trump was asked about his remarks to The Sun, where he said recently departed foreign secretary Boris Johnson would be a great prime minister.

He again said the White House would release a tape of the interview, claiming the remark was “unrelated.”

“We taped the entire interview. They asked about Boris Johnson. How would he be as a prime minister? I said he’ll be a great prime minister. He’s been very nice to me. He’s been saying very good things about me as president.”

“I think he thinks I’m doing a great job. I am doing a great job, that I can tell you, just in case you haven’t noticed,” Trump added. “But Boris Johnson would be a great prime minister.”

On May, he then added, “I also said that this incredible woman right here is doing a fantastic job, a great job. And I mean that.”

Hours after his wide-ranging interview with The Sun newspaper, in which he said he felt the UK was “losing its culture” because of immigration, Trump doubled down, telling a reporter, “It’s been very bad for Europe.”

“I think Europe is a place I know very well, and I think that what has happened is very tough. It’s a very tough situation. I mean, you see the same terror attacks that I do. We see them a lot,” Trump said.

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President Trump again said he will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin about Russian election meddling. The two leaders have a summit on Monday.

“I know you’ll ask, ‘Will we be talking about meddling?’” Trump said to a reporter. “And I will absolutely bring that up.”

He said Putin likely will not admit to meddling.

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President Trump hit back against an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sun in which he said British Prime Minister Theresa May had ignored his advice on Brexit.

“I didn’t criticize the prime minister,” Trump said. “I have a lot of respect for the prime minister. And unfortunately, there was a story that was done, which was, you know, generally fine. But it didn’t put in what I said about the prime minister. And I said tremendous things.”

Trump added that he had a recording of the interview and it would support his argument.

In the same interview with the Sun, Trump praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who has just walked out of her Cabinet over the issue – and said May’s cherished hope of a free trade deal with the US would be killed off by her softened approach.

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President Trump just told British Prime Minister Theresa May that whatever she decided to do with regards to Brexit “is OK with us” — as long as the US and UK can continue to trade together.

“Once the Brexit process is concluded, and perhaps the UK has left the EU — I don’t know what they’re going to do, but whatever you do is OK with me. That’s your decision. Whatever you’re going to do is OK with us. Just make sure we can trade together. That’s all that matters.”

What Trump said to a British newspaper: The President on Thursday night delivered an astonishing political knifing of the British Prime Minister, comprehensively undermining her fragile position in Britain’s tortuous negotiations on leaving the European Union and getting his visit to the country off to the most explosive of starts.

In an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sun, Trump said May had ignored his advice on Brexit, he praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who has just walked out of her Cabinet over the issue – and he said May’s cherished hope of a free trade deal with the US would be killed off by her softened approach.

“She didn’t listen to me,” he told The Sun.

Why it matters: Trump’s comments represent a stunning intervention in British domestic politics, especially since they came at the end of a week in which she lost three ministers, including Johnson, who said her approach is a betrayal of a referendum vote to leave the EU.

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President Trump, speaking at a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, said NATO allies have agreed to increase their defense spending.

Trump visited the UK after spending two days in Brussels, Belgium for a NATO summit.

“Prime Minister May and I have just come from a very productive NATO summit — that was truly a productive summit, where my top priority was getting other NAO members to pay their full and fair share and the prime minister was right there with me,” Trump said. “I want to thank you, prime minister for the United Kingdom’s contribution to our common defense.”

Following the NATO summit, several world leaders rejected Trump’s assertion that he convinced members to pay more.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday she is seeking an “ambitious trade deal” with the United States.

This comes just hours after the Sun, one of the UK’s most-read newspapers, unveiled a front-page interview with Donald Trump with the headline “May has wrecked Brexit… US deal is off!”

British Prime Minister Theresa May opened her remarks ahead of a joint press conference with President Donald Trump by outlining the unity between the two countries.

“No two countries do more together than ours to keep their people safe and prosperous,” May said. “And we want to deepen that cooperation even further to meet the shared challenges we face now and in years ahead.”

She outlined a number of examples where the two shared common priorities, such as fighting the use of chemical weapons, and ISIS in Syria, sanctions on North Korea, intelligence sharing, military cooperation, terrorism, and creating jobs.

“It is all of our responsibility to ensure that transatlantic unity endures,” she added, “for it has been fundamental to the protection and projection of our interests and values for generations.”

Amid fallout over President Trump’s comments to a London newspaper saying British Prime Minister “didn’t listen” to him on Brexit, the two leaders were seen holding hands as they walked down steps approaching a podium for their joint press conference.

Any minute now, President Trump will have a news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

It could be awkward: In an interview with The Sun, Trump criticized May over her handling of Brexit.

“I told her how to do it. That will be up to her to say. But I told her how to do it. She wanted to go a different route,” he told the tabloid.

Earlier today, Trump declined to comment on the interview. Instead, he said the US-UK relationship is “very, very strong.”

President Trump declined to answer Friday when asked whether he regrets his interview with The Sun in which he criticized British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Instead, he very visibly shook his head and rolled his eyes, turning to his aides with a look that showed his clear displeasure with the question.

This came while he was sitting alongside British prime minister Theresa May for their bilateral meeting.

Here’s what he said:

Rory Smith is in central London where the protesters are gathering ahead of the march.

After just over two hours in the air, the ‘Baby Trump’ balloon is coming down in London.

Here’s footage of the deflation:

London’s Evening Standard has a message for President Trump.

Here’s the front page of Friday’s edition. The paper is edited by former UK Chancellor George Osborne.

Protesters are beginning to gather in central London ahead of the planned march through central London.

UK Chancellor Philip Hammond suggested that Donald Trump’s comments about Britain’s Brexit plans are ill-informed given that it was only released a day ago.

Trump criticized UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy during an interview with The Sun newspaper, saying tried to give her advice on how to handle negotiations with the EU.

Speaking ahead of a meeting in Brussels, Hammond said May would be briefing Trump on the plan today (Friday).

“I know she’s looking forward to setting out to him how this Brexit plan will work, what the detail is, and how that will enable us to engage in a very positive way with the US in the future. And I’m sure as a result of that of that discussion, we will have a way forward – both with the United States and with our partners in the European Union,” Hammond said.

Asked whether he was suggesting that Trump doesn’t understand May’s Brexit plan, Hammond responded: “Well, the President hasn’t yet had a chance – I think – to discuss with the Prime Minister the (Brexit) White Paper, which was only published yesterday (Thursday).”

President Trump has arrived at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst ahead of further talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

First Lady Melania Trump is participating in a visit to Royal Hospital Chelsea this morning with Philip May, husband of the Prime Minister.

The Royal Hospital is not actually a Hospital, but a home for retired soldiers, known as the Chelsea Pensioners.

The 66-acre campus was founded in 1682. Applicants must be over 65 and “unencumbered by spouse,” per its charter.

Many of the veterans, who wear military uniforms, have jobs here, including as guides, gardeners, and museum and chapel staff.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says it was “not diplomatic” for Donald Trump to criticize the UK Prime Minister’s Brexit strategy while being a guest of the country.

Khan – who does not support the UK leaving the European Union – told CNN: “Let me tell you the irony of people lecturing me about the art of diplomacy – particularly President Trump and his supporters (saying) it’s not diplomatic to have protests when the President comes to London.”

“Well, I’d argue with respect, it’s not diplomatic when you’re about to enter a country to do an interview which criticizes the Prime Minister and the strategy she’s embarking on – whether you agree or disagree with that strategy.”

Protesters are expected to turn out in force today in London.

CNN’s Eliza Mackintosh has been talking to those who are joining the march in the center of town.

The ‘Trump Baby’ balloon is up and in full flight close to Parliament in London.

Not everyone is happy about it though.

Conservative MP Nicolas Soames called it an “utterly pathetic pointless graceless balloon.”

US President Donald Trump stayed at the home of the US Ambassador in London’s Regent Park last night.

He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister May at Chequers before having tea with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle this afternoon.

Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan insists the British government do not see Trump’s comments in his interview with The Sun as “rude”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today program, he said: “Donald Trump is in many ways a controversialist, that’s his style, that’s the color he brings to the world stage.

 “And he is, in that sense, very unconventional. I don’t think we see it as rude. And I think the atmosphere last night at the Blenheim dinner was very, very special actually.”

Protesters plan to fly a giant “Trump Baby” balloon over Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Friday in protest of US President Donald Trump’s controversial visit to the UK.

Trump arrived in Britain on Thursday. He is scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and take tea with the Queen.

Blimp organizer Leo Murray told CNN the giant balloon had been designed to speak to Trump “in a language that he understands, which is personal insults.”

The orange-hued blimp stands at 6 meters (19.6 feet) tall, and features “small hands, a tiny mobile phone and a giant nappy/diaper,” according to the organizer

It’s scheduled to lift off at 9:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. EST) and will fly up to 30 meters (or 98 feet) for two hours – coinciding with the first scheduled protest slated to take place in central London on Friday.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has offered a scathing assessment of President Donald Trump’s policies both at home and abroad.

In the video clip, Corbyn takes aim at Trump over his immigration policies, his withdrawal from the Paris Accord and and accuses him of condoning racism, misogyny and prejudice.

Trump’s Brexit comments and his endorsement of Boris Johnson, who quit the Cabinet earlier this week over Theresa May’s plans for leaving the European Union, has put the cat among the pigeons in Westminster, home to the UK parliament.

An MP in the opposition Labour party, Wes Streeting, called for his meeting with Queen Elizabeth later today to be canceled.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry also laid into Trump over his treatment of May.

Speaking to Sky News, Thornberry said: “Donald Trump ought to have listened to his mother. I am assuming that his mum told him that when you go to someone’s house you do not insult the host.”

Ms Thornberry added: “I don’t trust her to stand up for our country when it comes to President Trump.

Britain is waking up to newspaper front pages full of comment and analysis on US President Donald Trump’s astonishing interview with the The Sun.

In an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sun, Trump said May had ignored his advice on Brexit, he praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who this week walked out of her Cabinet over the issue – and he said May’s cherished hope of a free trade deal with the US would be killed off by her decision to pursue a closer post-Brexit relationship with the EU than previously indicated.

Trump’s comments will heap pressure on May ahead of their meeting at her country residence, Chequers, later today.

There could also be a rather awkward atmosphere at the subsequent press conference when both leaders likely to be questioned about Trump’s comments.

The Queen has met almost every US president since her reign began in 1952, with the sole exception of Lyndon B. Johnson, who didn’t visit Britain during his time in office.

Trump follows in the footsteps of previous Presidents to visit Windsor Castle, including Ronald Reagan in 1982, George W. Bush in 2008, and Barack Obama in 2016.

Windsor Castle holds a special significance for the royal family. The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, it’s one of Queen Elizabeth II’s official residences. It’s also said to be one of her favorite weekend destinations.

See all the meetings between the Queen and the nine presidents who she has received here.

British tabloid newspaper The Sun published its exclusive interview with the US President late Thursday – just as the dishes were being cleared at Trump’s welcome dinner with UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

Trump said that a May-authored plan would likely “kill” any UK-US trade deal.

“If they do a deal like that, we would most likely be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,” he said.

He also said he’d told May how to negotiate with the EU, but she ignored him.

“I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me.”

Read what else Trump had to say – on trade, NATO, Boris Johnson and more – here.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent their first day in the United Kingdom at a formal dinner at Blenheim Palace, the fabled 18th century estate in Oxfordshire.

The Trumps were greeted by British Prime Minister Theresa May and participated in an arrival ceremony Thursday before attending the black-tie dinner in one of the palace’s several gilded ballrooms. They will be returning to London via helicopter later that night to stay at Winfield House, the vast residence of US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.

Friday is also a busy day. Here’s what it looks like:

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement Thursday, following President Trump’s interview with The Sun newspaper criticizing British Prime Minister Teresa May over the Brexit deal.

Here’s what Sanders said:

“The President likes and respects Prime Minister May very much. As he said in his interview with The Sun she ‘is a very good person’ and he ‘never said anything bad about her.’ He thought she was great on NATO today and is a really terrific person. He is thankful for the wonderful welcome from the prime minister here in the UK.”

In The Sun interview, Trump said May “didn’t listen” to his views on how she should negotiate the UK’s exit from the European Union, but said that was “fine.” 

“She should negotiate the best way she knows how, but it’s too bad what’s going on,” Trump said. 

Trump was greeted by May in a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance Thursday evening just hours before the interview was released.

President Trump described Queen Elizabeth II as a “tremendous woman” in an interview with The Sun newspaper.

The President and first lady Melania Trump will sit down with the Queen for tea Friday inside one of Windsor Castle’s drawing rooms.

“She is a tremendous woman,” he told the newspaper. “I really look forward to meeting her. I think she represents her country so well.”

He continued: “If you think of it, for so many years she has represented her country, she has really never made a mistake. You don’t see, like, anything embarrassing. She is just an incredible woman.”

Trump also said the first lady was a fan of the Queen.

President Trump, in a wide ranging interview with The Sun newspaper, said he felt the UK was “losing its culture” because of immigration.

“I think you are losing your culture. Look around. You go through certain areas that didn’t exist ten or 15 years ago,” he told The Sun.

The President also took issue with the wave of immigration coming into Europe.

“I think what has happened to Europe is a shame,” he told the newspaper. “Allowing the immigration to take place in Europe is a shame. I think it changed the fabric of Europe and, unless you act very quickly, it’s never going to be what it was and I don’t mean that in a positive way. So I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad.” 

President Donald Trump said in an interview with The Sun that he feels “unwelcome” in London.

“I used to love London as a city. I haven’t been there in a long time. But when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?” the President told the newspaper.

Addressing the issue of the giant inflatable “Trump baby” that will fly above London on Friday, he said, “I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London.”

Trump did say, however, that the British public like him and that “many people are delighted.”

President Trump has continued his feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan in an interview with the British newspaper The Sun.

Trump said Khan had “done a very bad job on terrorism” and a “terrible job in London.”

Trump also took issue with the fact that he felt Khan had not been respectful to him.

He continued: “I think he has not been hospitable to a government that is very important. Now he might not like the current President, but I represent the United States. I also represent a lot of people in Europe because a lot of people from Europe are in the United States.”

Some background: Long before Trump became president, he was trading barbs with Khan. After Khan was elected as London’s first Muslim mayor in 2016, he frequently criticized Trump and described his views of Islam as ignorant. Trump called for an IQ test between him and the mayor to determine who’s smarter.

The spats continued even after Trump was elected president. In June last year, Trump slammed Khan in a tweet shortly after a terror attack in London.

President Trump, in an interview covering many topics with The Sun newspaper in the UK, said the former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would make “a great prime minister.”

Boris Johnson quit as foreign secretary Monday over a Brexit plan that he did not agree with.

Trump described Johnson as “a very talented guy.”

He continued: “I have a lot of respect for Boris. He obviously likes me, and says very good things about me. I was very saddened to see he was leaving government and I hope he goes back in at some point. I think he is a great representative for your country.”

Trump refused to be drawn into saying if Johnson should replace Theresa May as prime minister.

President Donald Trump touched down in the United Kingdom Thursday and spoke with a major British tabloid where he differed with British Prime Minister Theresa May on her approach to Brexit.

“I told her how to do it. That will be up to her to say. But I told her how to do it. She wanted to go a different route,” Trump said, according to audio of an interview posted by The Sun.

Trump said May “didn’t listen” to his views on how she should negotiate the UK’s exit from the European Union, but said that was “fine.” 

“She should negotiate the best way she knows how, but it’s too bad what’s going on,” Trump said. 

Trump’s comments in the interview are an extraordinary criticism of a foreign leader during a trip to that leader’s country. Trump was greeted by May in a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance Thursday evening just hours before the interview was released.

Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas were also mentioned in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech Thursday night at Blenheim Palace.

What do they have in common? President Trump carried all four states in the 2016 presidential election. May is trying to make clear trade relationships are mutually beneficial.

Here’s what May said:

“Tomorrow morning, around 24,000 men and women in Michigan will get up and go to work for a UK-owned company. Another 40,000 will do the same in Ohio. Sixty thousand in Pennsylvania. In Texas, British employers provide work for an incredible 100,000 people. Altogether, from Maine to Alaska, more than a million Americans work for British companies.”

A group of protesters at a rally outside Blenheim Palace Thursday lent their voices to deliver a message to President Trump.

Karin Fremer, who joined the protest, took this video of the demonstrators singing, “Tweet, tweet, tweet. His travel bans cause chaos, the protests went worldwide.”

British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke at a dinner with President Trump and key business leaders Thursday night. Here are a few key lines from the address:

On the US and UK’s friendship: “Time and again, the common threads that hold us together — our shared history, our shared values, our shared language and culture — conspire to inspire mutual respect, and to make the United States and the United Kingdom not just the closest of allies, but the dearest of friends.”

On confronting Russia: “As was the case in Churchill’s time, and in many years before and since, it’s there in our joint efforts to protect our shared security — whether through targeting Daesh [ISIS] terrorists or standing up to Russian aggression.”

On co-investment: “As the largest investors in each other’s economies, with over a trillion dollars of investments between us, the US and UK do an incredible amount of business together. Thousands of US companies have a home in the UK, providing jobs for over million people here. And the strength and breadth of Britain’s contribution to the US economy cannot be understated. The UK is the largest investor in the US, providing nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in your country.”

On British companies that employ Americans: “There are thousands of British employers with a long-term presence in the US, providing well-paid work and driving economic growth in every state … Tomorrow morning, around 24,000 men and women in Michigan will get up and go to work for a UK-owned company … Another 40,000 will do the same in Ohio. Sixty thousand in Pennsylvania. In Texas, British employers provide work for an incredible 100,000 people. Altogether, from Maine to Alaska, more than a million Americans work for British companies.”

On leaving the EU: “Now, as we prepare to leave the European Union, we have an unprecedented opportunity to do more. It’s an opportunity to reach a free trade agreement that creates jobs and growth here in the UK and right across the United States … It’s also an opportunity to tear down the bureaucratic barriers that frustrate business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.”

British Prime Minister Theresa May, in remarks at tonight’s dinner at Blenheim Palace, touted the UK’s business relationship with the US.

“As the largest investors in each other’s economies, with over a trillion dollars of investments between us, the US and UK do an incredible amount of business together,” she said, according to a statement from the UK government.

She mentioned Brexit, framing it as an “unprecedented opportunity” to further strengthen relationships.

“Now, as we prepare to leave the European Union, we have an unprecedented opportunity to do more,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to reach a free trade agreement that creates jobs and growth here in the UK and right across the United States … It’s also an opportunity to tear down the bureaucratic barriers that frustrate business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Business leaders from a range of sectors are attending tonight’s dinner.

First lady Melania Trump is wearing a canary yellow J. Mendel dress to Thursday’s formal dinner at Blenheim Palace.

She is also wearing Manolo Blahnik heels, CNN’s Kate Bennett reported. President Trump wore a tuxedo to the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May.

The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry Band performed for the Trumps, May and her husband, Philip May, before they headed into the palace for dinner.

The President and first lady Melania Trump have landed at Blenheim Palace for a formal dinner hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May. But first, they will receive a ceremonial welcome by the British Army.

In a statement, the Army said the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry Band will perform a “specially composed fanfare.” The bands of the Scots, Irish and Welsh guards will put on “a sunset ceremony of music and drill,” the Army said.

Here are a few of the other performances:

Nick Hanson took this video of protesters chanting “shame on him” Thursday outside Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, where President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May were set to dine.

Hanson of Oxford protested with demonstrators, who carried signs and large banners.

Watch the video:

Earlier, a crowd of protesters booed the helicopter believed to be carrying President Trump off to his dinner with Theresa May and British business leaders.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are having dinner with British Prime Minister Theresa May at Blenheim Palace, an isolated estate stretching across more than 2,000 acres of Oxfordshire countryside that was once returned from disrepair by an infusion of American money.

Business leaders from a range of sectors will also attend the dinner. And Trump’s arrival to the palace is expected to be extravagant: The guards will march, the bands will play and the Royal Regiment of Scotland will pipe.

Blenheim Palace is the only palace in Britain not owned by the monarchy or the church. It’s also the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

The baroque palace — built as a national monument and grandiloquent home for esteemed general and statesman John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough — is lavish.

Here’s a look at the state dining room:

Protesters have started gathering in London to rally against President Trump’s UK visit. Earlier today, Trump said he was “OK” with the protests and added that he thinks people in the UK like him a lot.

Protester Roger McKay, from London, says that’s not the case.

He said he couldn’t “do nothing” as Trump visits his country today.

“Trump is an opportunistic man who blames the world’s problem on immigrants and vulnerable people. I would like to see that change, that’s why am here. I grew up thinking the world gets better but this man embodies the opposite.”

The world’s watching Trump’s visit to the UK — including the people of Washington (the other one).

Washington, in northeast England, was once a thriving mining town. It’s the ancestral home of George Washington.

Former US President Jimmy Carter visited the town in 1977, stopping by Washington OId Hall, where George Washington’s family started life in the area.

CNN’s James Masters and photographer Mary Turner went to find out what the residents made of Brexit remembered of Carter’s visit and more importantly, what they made of Trump.

You can read all about it here.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan issued a statement ahead of the large-scale protests that are expected in the city tomorrow.

Thousands of people are expected to march through central London on Friday and a “Trump Baby” balloon will be flown close to Parliament.

Here’s what Khan said in a statement:

“My message to those coming to the protests in London is that this must be peaceful and good-spirited. To those intent on causing trouble or breaking the law, I simply say: you are not welcome.Around the world, the far-right and nationalist populists are on the rise. This has led to a constant focus on what divides us, rather than what unites us – and the horrific scapegoating of some of the most vulnerable people in our societies.I know Londoners are resolutely opposed to the politics of fear and despair. The US has always stood by our side as a beacon for tolerance, openness and respect. This protest is not anti-American – far from it. Most of those marching on Friday will love the United States, just as I do.But having a special relationship means that we expect the highest standards from each other, and it also means speaking out when we think the values we hold dear are under threat.”

President Trump is on his way to the residence of US ambassador Woody Johnson. He’ll spend the next few hours at Johnson’s residence before meeting UK Prime Minister Theresa May at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.

Tall metal mesh barricades and concrete blocks have been erected around the perimeter of Johnson’s swanky central London residence — called Winfield House — where Trump will spend Thursday night.

Protesters are expected to gather around the residence to greet Trump with a “wall of noise” on Thursday night. Organizers have urged demonstrators to bring “bring pots, drums and vuvuzelas.”

Winfield House is the only place where Trump will spend time in central London, where demonstrators are expected to gather in their tens of thousands for a march on Friday afternoon, hours after a giant “Trump baby” balloon is flown near the UK Parliament in an eye-catching stunt.

President Trump just landed in the UK. He’ll spend the next two days meeting with British Prime Minster Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth II before heading to Scotland later tomorrow.

Here’s a breakdown of where Trump is going:

Here’s the map:

The US embassy has taken the unusual step of issuing a warning to American citizens in the UK to “keep a low profile” during the visit of President Donald Trump.

There are fears that demonstrations over Trump’s three-day visit to the UK, where he will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth, could turn violent.

A statement on the US embassy website warns US citizens to “be aware of your surroundings [and] exercise caution if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings that may become violent.”

The largest demonstration is expected in central London on Friday, where a giant “Trump baby” balloon will fly.

President Trump is wheels down in the United Kingdom. He’ll start his day there with a visit with British Prime Minister May.

Tomorrow, Trump and May will visit a defense site and then travel to Chequers, the Prime Minister’s official country retreat, for bilateral talks. They’ll have a news conference afterward.

Trump and the first lady will then go on to Windsor Castle to meet the Queen.

Protesters are expected to rally during President Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom. The US embassy has even warned American citizens in the UK to “keep a low profile” amid fears that protests could turn violent.

Here’s a look at a few ways demonstrators are voicing their dissent:

The musical protest

There’s a social media campaign to make Green Day’s 2004 song “American Idiot” No. 1 in the UK by the time Trump arrives. 

The Trump baby balloon

A 19-foot-tall orange balloon — shaped to look like a baby version of Trump — will be flown in central London on Friday. It’s expected to sail as high as 98 feet in the air near Parliament.

The rallies

Anti-Trump demonstrations are expected to take place in Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds, Cambridge and Cardiff after Trump arrives today.

A small demonstration is expected to take place near Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire today, the venue for Trump’s black-tie dinner with May tonight. Tomorrow, demonstrators are expected to gather near Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence, where May and Trump will hold a working lunch.

The biggest protest will take place in central London on Friday when thousands are expected to take to the streets to join the “Stop Trump” march.

President Trump has been in Brussels, Belgium, for a NATO summit. Air Force One is wheels up and on its way to the UK now.

Here’s a look how Trump’s next two days in the UK will go down:

President Trump is wrapping up at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, before he heads to the UK later today. At a post-summit news conference, he told reporters he’s OK with protests set to take place in the UK during his visit.

Trump also said he is going to “a pretty hot spot” right now, pointing to the string of resignations from Prime Minister’s Theresa May’s government.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May praised the relationship between the US and the UK ahead of President Trump’s visit to London. 

“As two nations – we are safer, more prosperous and more creative when we work together,” May added. “I am looking forward to this week’s important discussions.”

In recent months, President Trump has bickered with British officials over his tweets and comments, complicating his relationship with one of America’s closest allies.

This is a rundown of Trump’s past UK comments:

President Trump will arrive in the UK on Thursday from a NATO summit in Brussels, according to the itinerary released by Downing Street.

This is what his visit looks like for the next two days:

Thursday

Friday