The White House has denied a report that US President Donald Trump plans to delay his state visit to the United Kingdom over fears of potential protests and his perceived unpopularity.

According to a report by the Guardian on Sunday, Trump revealed his unease during a conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May in recent weeks, according to a Downing Street adviser who was in the room.

But a senior Trump administration source denied that the subject ever came up when Trump and May spoke on Friday in the aftermath of the British general election.

"The President has tremendous respect for Prime Minister May. That subject never came up on the call," the official told CNN.

A second senior US administration official also dismissed the Guardian report, acknowledging that Trump may never be popular in London and isn't fazed by that.

No official date was ever set for the visit. A Downing Street spokesman refused to comment on what he called "speculation about the contents of private phone conversation."

"The Queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the UK and there is no change to those plans," the spokesman added.

May extended the invite to Trump on behalf of the Queen just a week after his inauguration, a move that was heavily criticized in the UK.

Trump has become increasingly unpopular in Britain in recent days. His vociferous Twitter attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack last weekend drew condemnation from across the British political spectrum. Khan then called on the British government to cancel Trump's visit.

On Sunday, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn voiced his support for canceling Trump's trip.

Corbyn tweeted: "Cancellation of President Trump's State Visit is welcome, especially after his attack on London's mayor & withdrawal from #ParisClimateDeal."

The arrival of Trump in Britain anytime soon is unlikely to be welcomed by May, who is fighting for her political life following a disastrous general election Thursday that wiped out her party's majority in Parliament and prompted calls for her to resign.

In February this year, the British government formally rejected an online petition calling for Trump's state visit to the UK to be canceled or downgraded. The petition had garnered more than 1.8 million signatures. </s> LONDON: Soon after a newspaper claimed a possible postponement in the US President Donald Trump 's state visit to Britain, a 10 Downing Street spokesperson on Sunday clarified that there is no change in plans in Trump's arrival.A report in the Guardian claimed that Trump has told British Prime Minister Theresa May in a phone call that he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public supports him coming -- citing a Downing Street adviser who was in the room."We aren't going to comment on speculation about the contents of private phone conversations. The Queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the UK and there is no change to those plans," Xinhua quoted the Downing Street spokesperson as saying.May invited Trump to Britain seven days after his inauguration when she became the first foreign leader to visit him in the White House. </s> Donald Trump’s popularity in Great Britain has taken some recent hits after he withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and trashed London Mayor Sadiq Khan following the London Bridge terror attacks that killed eight people and injured nearly 50 more. Khan responded by calling for the cancellation of Trump’s upcoming state visit (which was planned for an indefinite date), and British Prime Minister Theresa May didn’t make a public determination on the matter. However, The Guardian reports that Trump has put the visit on ice until he manages to improve his image across the pond.

So … never? Trump used a terror attack against one of America’s closest allies to promote and justify his “travel ban.” And Brits — who are dealing with not only that event but uncertainty within the Brexit mess (that Trump supported while not understanding the implications) — aren’t likely to soon dismiss their disgust. Trump is apparently aware of this, and this report about a leaked phone call with May reveals his fear of “large-scale protests” on the streets. Oh, those persistent leaks:

Donald Trump has told Theresa May in a phone call he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public supports him coming. The US president said he did not want to come if there were large-scale protests and his remarks in effect put the visit on hold for some time. The call was made in recent weeks, according to a Downing Street adviser who was in the room. The statement surprised May, according to those present.

The report was followed by silence from the White House and (for what it’s worth) a denial from Theresa May’s Downing Street office. A spokeswoman told Reuters that May would not comment upon the phone call report but emphasized that the queen invited Trump to visit, and “and there is no change to those plans.” Yet since there was never a date announced for Trump’s supposed visit, a postponement is easy to deny.

Meanwhile, MP Jeremy Corbyn (whose Labour Party gave May a huge surprise that has sent her scrambling to secure her power after last week’s election) has declared that a cancellation of Trump’s visit would be “welcome.” </s> LONDON — President Trump will delay his first state visit to the United Kingdom until 2018 because of concerns about protests reflecting his unpopularity with Britons, U.K. media reported Tuesday.

The visit had been expected this year, but a date was never set. Trump accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II when Prime Minister Theresa May traveled to Washington in January.

Trump is disliked by many Britons, for reasons that include his travel restrictions targeting six majority-Muslim countries and his public attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the Muslim to hold the office.

More than 2 million people have signed a petition calling on Parliament to block the visit.

Last month, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the state visit was still on following reports that Trump could scrap or postpone it due to concerns about mass protests. "We look forward to scheduling that trip," said Spicer.

Thousands of protesters rallied in London in February calling on May to withdraw the invitation for a state visit.

The Guardian and the BBC reported that May’s office and the White House were looking at dates in 2018.

Trump could still visit Britain this year but without the pomp and ceremony of an official state visit.

At the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, last week, Trump told May that he would be visiting Britain, and it was just a matter of arranging a date.

"I will be going to London," he said. Trump is traveling to Paris to mark Bastille Day on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and could later visit his ancestral home of Scotland, where he owns a golf resort ensnared in a local development dispute.

"An invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted, and the PM looks forward to welcoming President Trump to the U.K.,” May’s office said in a statement Tuesday. “We will set out a date for the visit in due course."

The U.K., which is exiting the European Union following a referendum last year, and the United States enjoy a long-standing “special relationship.”

"There's no country that could possibly be closer than our countries, for a long time," Trump said in Hamburg. "Prime Minister May and I have developed a very special relationship.”

He said that a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement will be "done very very quickly." </s> United States President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom (UK) is likely to happen next year.

According to Sky News, Downing Street and White House are looking for possible options to arrange for Trump's state visit next year.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May, during her visit to the US in February, had announced Queen Elizabeth's invitation of a state visit to Trump.

However, shortly after the news, many people in the UK launched a petition titled 'Prevent Donald Trump from making State Visit to the United Kingdom' to protest against Trump's immigration ban.

The petition soon became popular and garnered over 1.8 million signatories, enough to be debated on in the UK Parliament.

It was reported that senior UK politicians, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, called for the visit to be cancelled.

There were protests organised countrywide against his visit too.

Trump, in June, had informed May that he would not travel to Britain until the protests against him come to an end in the country.

The White House, however, denied that the US President had any reservations about visiting the UK, and added that they were looking forward to working out a "mutually acceptable date."

There were also earlier reports that Trump may secretly drop in the UK during his Europe visit for the G20 Summit. </s> U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom, initially planned for this year, will be delayed until next year, a senior U.S. administration official said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom, initially planned for this year, will be delayed until next year, a senior U.S. administration official said on Tuesday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May had invited Trump to London when she visited the White House soon after Trump took office on Jan. 20.

But the two sides were never able to find dates that worked for both governments. Trump has been to Europe twice this year, is headed to Paris this week and his other scheduled trip abroad in 2017 is to Asia.

"It's just a scheduling issue," the official told Reuters. "Finding a date that works for everyone turned out to be difficult. We're looking at next year." </s> WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s trip to the United Kingdom probably isn’t happening in 2017.

A senior White House official says the president will delay his first state visit to London due to a scheduling issue. The official spoke anonymously because the president’s long-term schedule is typically kept private.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May was the first world leader to visit Trump at the White House.

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She brought an invitation from the Queen for Trump to come to London this year on a state visit. </s> London: UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said on Sunday there had been no change to plans for U.S. President Donald Trump's to come to Britain on a state visit, after the Guardian newspaper reported the trip had been postponed.

The paper, citing an unidentified adviser at May's Downing Street office who was in the room at the time, reported Trump had told May by telephone in recent weeks that he did not want to come if there were likely to be large-scale protests.

“We aren’t going to comment on speculation about the contents of private phone conversations,” a spokeswoman for May's office said. "The queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the UK and there is no change to those plans."

The White House also denied the Guardian report, with an administration official telling Reuters, "The subject never came up on the call."

No date has been set for the visit, which was agreed during May's visit to Washington in January, but British media had reported it was planned for October.

May's hold on power has been significantly weakened since the results of a snap election last week cost her Conservative Party a parliamentary majority. In a bid to save her position, May has been trying to form a government with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, a small faction of social conservatives.

British politics is going through an upheaval just a week before talks begin on Britain's exit from the European Union, set for 2019.

Trump's public criticism this month of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to an attack by Islamist militants in London was condemned in Britain. May found herself forced to defend Khan, who is from the opposition Labour party.

At that time, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said there was no reason to cancel the visit, while White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that Trump intended to go and that "he appreciates Her Majesty's gracious invitation". </s> The US President will travel to the UK on July 13 – with the long-awaited and controversial trip is expected to be a "working visit" rather than a full-blown state occasion. The UK's ambassador to the United States confirmed the visit, which will include face-to-face talks with Theresa May. Downing Street and the White House had hoped to co-ordinate releasing details of the trip, but Mr Trump's spokeswoman Sarah Sanders apparently let slip the information first. UK ambassador Sir Kim Darroch confirmed the date on Twitter, saying he was "delighted" that Mr Trump would visit the UK. Protesters have already vowed they will be out in force to let the US President know what they think of him.

“When Donald Trump arrives on these shores, we and thousands of our supporters will very definitely be making our voices heard.” The Prime Minister's spokesman said: "The President of the United States will visit the UK on 13 July. "He will hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister during his visit. Further details will be set out in due course." Mr Trump's visit is likely to attract major protests, and even his supporters have urged him to stay away from London in an effort to avoid mass demonstrations. In a letter to the US President, six conservative groups recommend he should instead focus his visit on his "ancestral home" of Scotland, including a meeting with the Queen at Balmoral.

Plans for a working visit to the UK in 2018 were announced when Mr Trump met Mrs May at Davos in January. The July 13 date follows the Nato summit which the president is due to attend in Brussels on the previous days. Interest in Mr Trump's plans has been fuelled by this week's high-profile state visit to the US of Emmanuel Macron, which some commentators have framed as a bid by the French president to make Paris Washington's first port of call in Europe following Brexit. Mr Trump cancelled a planned trip to London to open the new US embassy in Vauxhall earlier this year, complaining the move to an "off location" south of the Thames had been a "bad deal".

But it is thought his decision may have been driven by a fear of protests in the capital, with whose mayor Sadiq Khan he has clashed over his response to terrorism. The expectation of demonstrations is also believed to have played a part in the postponement of a state visit mooted for 2017. That trip - which would involve lavish ceremonies and a stay with the Queen at Buckingham Palace - has been put off indefinitely, though Number 10 insists the invitation stands. Mayor of London Khan tweeted: "If he comes to London, President Trump will experience an open and diverse city that has always chosen unity over division and hope over fear. "He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear."

In response to the announcement, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK's director, said: "When Donald Trump arrives on these shores, we and thousands of our supporters will very definitely be making our voices heard. "In the 15 months of his presidency, we've seen a deeply disturbing human rights roll-back - including the discriminatory travel ban, his reckless announcement on Jerusalem, and harmful policies on refugees, women's rights and climate change. "Since moving into the White House, Mr Trump has shown an impatience bordering on intolerance toward peaceful protests, the media and even the democratic process itself. So his visit to Britain will be an important opportunity to underline the importance of free speech and the right to protest."
The Guardian reports that U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed his visit to the United Kingdom, according to a U.K. adviser who said Mr. Trump recently telephoned 10 Downing Street with this information. Both Prime Minister Theresa May's office and the White House deny this report.