Donald Trump to finally visit Britain this summer
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Donald Trump will finally make his first visit to Britain since becoming US president this summer, it has emerged.
According to the Daily Mail, the controversial Republican is expected to come to the UK in mid-July following the Nato summit in Brussels.
President Trump had been due to visit London to open the new US embassy in February, but dramatically pulled out at the last minute.
He confirmed the trip was no longer happening in a typically-bullish tweet in which he laid the blame at the previous Obama administration for selling the previous US Embassy "for peanuts".
Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit President Trump at the White House in January last year, just days after he was sworn in.
She also invited him to the UK for a full state visit, something normally only afforded to presidents who have been in office for several years.
It is not thought that the July trip will be a full state visit, but it will last for several days and President Trump could even stay with the Queen at Balmoral.
Senior Whitehall sources said final details of the visit are still to be finalised, but it is virtually certain that it will go ahead.
The visit will be a major boost for Theresa May, who has had a series of spats with the president in the 15 months he has been in the White House.
Last Novemeber, the Prime Minister said the president had been "wrong" to retweet posts from far-right group Britain First - prompting the maverick Republican to say the Prime Minister should concentrate on tackling terrorism in the UK.
But at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump said they "like each other a lot".
Speaking after the pair held talks, he said: "The Prime Minister and myself have a really great relationship. Some people don’t necessarily believe that I can tell you it’s true, I have a tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the job she’s doing and I think the feeling is mutual from the standpoint of liking each other a lot and that was a little bit of a false rumour out there, I just wanted to correct it, frankly.
"We have respect for everything you’re doing. We love your country, we think it’s really good."
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