The U.K. State Visit That Never Was
Donald Trump claims to have canceled a trip over the London embassy location. But speculation it would be canceled has swirled for months.
Long before Donald Trump was president of the United States, he was a real-estate mogul. So perhaps it’s fitting that, as president, he decided Friday to effectively cancel his long-anticipated visit to the United Kingdom over his displeasure with the location of the new U.S. embassy in London.
While observers like London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan—with whom the president incidentally has a long-running Twitter feud—have that Trump’s decision to forego the London visit had more to do with fears of protest than the new embassy, his public cancelation is
