"Entente Cordiale" !?
O assunto está
"resolvido" ... Trump já não vai a Londres. Uma das perspectivas mais
importantes do Brexit era a Aliança Atlântica ...Recordemos as visitas de
Farage e May aos EU.Farage entretanto declarou que defende um novo referendo
sobre o Brexit, o que provocou reacções de regojizo dos que pretendem ficar na
UE. Trump demonstra medo para manifestações massivas em Londres, e apresenta no
Twitter, mais uma vez, desculpas esfarrapadas e afirmações vagas e desconexas.
OVOODOCORVO
Donald
Trump cancels London visit amid protest fears
President
will not open new US embassy next month, with secretary of state Rex Tillerson
likely to take his place
Heather
Stewart Political editor, and David Smith in Washington
Fri 12 Jan
‘18 09.49 GMT First published on Fri 12 Jan ‘18 00.17 GMT
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.
Asked about
Trump’s cancellation, a Downing Street spokesman repeated the government’s
longstanding position that “an invitation has been extended and accepted, but
no date has been set”.
The White
House press secretary Sarah Sanders said: “The invitation was made and has been
accepted we are still working to finalise a date.”
Instead of
a state visit, it had been expected that Trump would make a brief, less formal
“working visit” in February to cut the ribbon on the embassy in south-west
London, and hold meetings with May. Officials had also been examining plans for
the president to meet the Queen without the pomp of a full-blown state banquet.
Government
sources suggested Washington had signalled that the secretary of state, Rex
Tillerson, would instead open the embassy.
Trump
confirmed on Twitter late on Thursday night that the trip was off. “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,” he wrote just before midnight local time. “Bad deal. Wanted
me to cut ribbon-NO!”
Citing
security and environmental reasons, the US state department agreed to sell the
current embassy building in Grosvenor Square to the Qatari Diar Real Estate
Investment Co, which plans to turn it into a luxury hotel. Estimates put the
site’s value at £500m before it was made a listed building, which would have diminished
the value because of restrictions on development.
British
relations with the president hit a low late last year when May criticised his
decision to retweet videos posted by the far-right extremist group Britain
First.
Trump
responded by tweeting directly to the prime minister that she should focus on
tackling domestic terrorism.
The
government was so concerned about his decision to share the videos that
Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, took the rare step of
raising the issue directly with the White House.
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Trump’s
ambassador to London, Woody Johnson, subsequently insisted: “The president and
the prime minister have a very, very good relationship. I know the president
admires and respects the prime minister greatly.”
May’s
government has been keen to strike up a close relationship with the Trump
administration despite his erratic behaviour, because of Britain’s desire to
strike a swift trade deal with the world’s largest economy when it leaves the
European Union.
Trump has
sparked alarm among diplomats by repeatedly entering into Twitter spats with
key public figures, including the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to whom he
recently boasted about the size of the US nuclear arsenal.
The White
House has been rocked in recent days by the revelations in an explosive book,
Fire and Fury, by the US journalist Michael Wolff, who suggested senior figures
in the administration questioned the president’s fitness for office.
Asked about
the revelations last weekend, May said she believed they were not serious, and
Trump was a man making decisions “in the interests of the United States”.
Trump faced
fresh criticism on Thursday night after the Washington Post reported that he
had questioned planned changes to immigration rules, asking colleagues why the
US had to welcome arrivals from “shithole countries”.
Trump recusa ir a
Londres por recear protestos em massa (e culpa Obama)
No próximo mês
será inaugurada uma nova embaixada norte-americana na capital britânica. O
secretário de Estado dos EUA vai marcar presença em substituição do Presidente.
PÚBLICO 12 de
Janeiro de 2018, 0:53 actualizada às 6:59
Donald Trump
recusou deslocar-se ao Reino Unido no próximo mês para inaugurar a nova
embaixada norte-americana em Londres. O Presidente dos EUA receia protestos em
massa contra si na capital britânica, noticiou na quinta-feira o Guardian,
ainda antes da confirmação oficial do cancelamento da viagem.
De acordo com o
jornal, citando fontes governamentais em Londres, será o secretário de Estado,
Rex Tillerson, que se deslocará a Londres para inaugurar a nova embaixada.
No ano passado, o
Presidente norte-americano tinha já cancelado uma viagem ao Reino Unido, por
convite da primeira-ministra, Theresa May, adiando-a até que o povo britânico
concordasse com a sua visita a terras de Sua Majestade.
Nas suas
primeiras explicações sobre este cancelamento, Donald Trump afirmou no Twitter
que suspendeu a viagem porque o seu antecessor, Barack Obama, fez um mau negócio
ao vender a embaixada norte-americana em Londres.
“A razão pela
qual cancelei a minha viagem a Londres é a de que não sou grande fã [do facto]
de o Governo de Obama ter vendido a embaixada em Londres - quem sabe a de
melhor qualidade e em melhor localização - por uma ninharia, apenas para
construir uma nova numa localização má por 1200 milhões de dólares. Mau
negócio. Querem que eu corte a fita. Não!”, escreveu o Presidente dos Estados
Unidos no Twitter.
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