White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a scheduling update on Friday afternoon, informing reporters that President Donald Trump has now scheduled a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May while the two are at the Davos World Economic Forum.
As of Friday morning, news outlets were reporting that Trump would not make time to meet with May during the trip to Davos.
President Trump is scheduled to arrive at the meeting of the world’s economic elites on January 23 and depart on the 26th. He is traveling with a large envoy of no less than 15 Trump Administration officials led by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
The Friday morning reports included information from a source that remarked what a short trip Davos would be for the President and that he would be spending very little time at the event. Trump was however, still scheduled to meet with French President Emmanual Macron. Macron previously hosted Trump in France.
In early December Trump canceled a planned trip to London for the opening of the newly relocated U.S. Embassy.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has repeatedly complained about Trump and declared that the U.S. President was not welcome in London or Britain.
While Khan claimed that Trump had “finally got that message,” Trump pointed to the “bad deal” that the previous U.S. presidential administration made on the new billion-dollar embassy and that he did not want to participate in the opening.
Trump canceled a “working visit” to the U.K. after May rebuked him for Twitter retweets. Trump responded to May’s rebuke by telling her to turn her focus away from him and on to the “…destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.”
During May’s trip to the Washington, DC in January 2017, Trump had accepted an invitation to visit the UK according to Reuters. By June, May was struggling to form a government after party losses in UK elections.
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