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The Memo: Trump's Muslim tweets roil Britain | TheHill

posted onNovember 30, 2017
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Article snippet: President Trump’s latest Twitter controversy is reverberating across the Atlantic, complicating U.S. relations with one of its most stalwart allies, the United Kingdom. The president's sharing of anti-Muslim videos from a leader of a fringe ultranationalist party in Britain early Wednesday ignited an instant firestorm on social media. Trump was criticized by Muslim groups and liberals in the U.S., including Sen. MORE (I-Vt.), who described the president’s actions as “a new low.” But the controversy reached an even sharper pitch in the U.K., where a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May condemned Trump’s actions as “wrong.” The main opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party, called Trump’s retweets “abhorrent, dangerous and a threat to our society.” Other British political figures worried about the broader picture — one in which they said Trump’s deep unpopularity in the U.K., and his taste for inflammatory language, makes it harder to maintain the traditional closeness between the two nations. Alastair Campbell, who served for many years as a spokesman for then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, described the level of British “antipathy” toward Trump as unprecedented. “You keep thinking he can’t get any worse, and he gets worse. I just think people have a total disrespect for him — it’s overwhelming,” Campbell told The Hill. Trump has yet to make a state visit to the U.K. since entering office early this year. Officially, an invite for Trump to visit the U... Link to the full article to read more

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