UK MPs Call For Trump’s Arrest After Anti-Muslim Retweets, Failed Attempt To Twitter Beef With May

/ November 30, 2017

Well, I think it’s safe to say that Trump’s advisers (including and probably especially John Kelly) have begrudgingly come to the conclusion that trying to keep the President from embarrassing himself and the entire country on Twitter is an exercise in futility.

On Tuesday evening, Trump retweeted a series of unsubstantiated anti-Muslim videos originally posted by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First who is facing charges of inciting religiously aggravated harassment. Here are those retweets:

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Literally no one thought that was a good idea. Not even Breitbart:

On Wednesday, following a series of equally egregious but unrelated tweets about the media, Theresa May herself chastised Trump for his implicit support of Fransen:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the absurdity up a notch, claiming that it didn’t matter whether the videos were fake or not, because the threat is real. Obviously, that’s so ridiculous that it eludes attempts to criticize it.

Well, unable to let it go, Trump lashed out at May on Wednesday evening. Or at least he thought he did. But Trump being Trump, he accidentally tweeted to the wrong Theresa May:

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Turns out, @theresamay is this person, who has 6 followers:

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It’s probably a safe bet that Theresa Scrivener was surprised when a message from Trump about him “doing just fine” landed in her notifications.

Trump would go on to correct his mistake about 20 minutes later:

Now, calls are growing for the UK to cancel Trump’s state visit. Unsurprisingly, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is leading the charge. “It’s become increasingly clear that any official visit at all from President Trump to Britain would not be welcomed” Khan said, adding that “President Trump yesterday used Twitter to promote a vile, extremist group that exists solely to sow division and hatred in our country.”

On Thursday, in the UK Parliament, lawmakers lashed out at Trump, calling him everything from “racist” to “fascist” to downright “evil.” Labour MP Paul Flynn went so far as to suggest that Trump should be charged with inciting racial hatred if he enters the country.

And it wasn’t just Flynn.

Labour MP Chris Bryant,also called for Trump’s arrest if he enters the UK, saying this:

Firstly, the Foreign Secretary should summon the American ambassador and give him a dressing down. The American president is meddling in British politics in a very dangerous way.

Secondly, the prime minister should make it clear that if Donald Trump comes to this country he will be arrested for incited religious hatred – and therefore he would be better off not coming at all.

Ultimately, the UK is going to try and ride out this storm.

In a true testament to how the world now views the United States, Justine Greening, a British cabinet minister, told reporters the following:

In the end, our relationship with the United States has a longevity to it that will succeed long after presidents come and go.

Nothing further.

Well, other than these tweets…

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