US President Donald Trump to visit Britain in stasis
03 June 2019 |
5:30 am
In London, US President Donald Trump will be met with wide-scale protests and a febrile political climate. Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May issued the invitation before her time in office was genuinely numbered.
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