Theresa May condemned Donald Trump for tweeting anti-Muslim videos, Trump replies: ‘don’t focus on me’
Donald Trump fired back at British Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday evening after the U.K. government condemned the U.S. president for a group of tweets.
Trump retweeted three unverified, anti-Muslim videos Wednesday morning, a move that garnered backlash from across the world. A spokesperson for May said Trump was wrong to share the anti-Muslim videos.
Trump later fired back at the prime minister telling her “don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.”
In the initial tweet, which has since been deleted, he tagged Twitter user @TheresaMay, which isn’t the handle for the British PM. (May’s verified Twitter is @Theresa_May.)
He then tweeted again with May’s proper account tagged.
.@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!
The videos in question were first put on Twitter by a member of the Britain First political party in the U.K.
A spokesperson for May issued a statement on the incident earlier on Wednesday.
“Britain First seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people,” the spokesperson said. “British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents: decency tolerance and respect.”
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