Trump's UK Visit Postponed Indefinitely After President Retweets Anti-Muslim Fake News

American diplomats have dropped all plans regarding President Donald Trump’s United Kingdom visit in January 2018 amid growing tensions between the countries’ leaders. Trump was scheduled to go to the U.K. for a “working visit” in January to formally inaugurate America’s new London embassy. However, the trip was scaled down to a state visit with no meeting with the Queen, according to a report in the Telegraph.

The events were leveled down so that Trump could visit the U.K. and also avoid mass protests that would most likely happen if a full state visit was scheduled. But, according to a new report in a Canadian English-language newspaper, the National Post, the president’s trip has now been postponed indefinitely with no new date in mind.

“The idea of a visit has obviously been floated, but not December and not January. I would not expect a Trump visit in January,” a senior U.S. diplomat said.

The spat first started when Trump on Wednesday retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by a British far-right group. The videos were posted on Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right group which was formed in 2011.

One of the videos claimed to show "Muslim migrants beating up a Dutch boy on crutches," while another was captioned "Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary," and the third read "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off the roof and beats him to death.”

While some of the tweets proved to be incorrect, Trump drew negative reactions from the British Prime Minister and the British Parliament, among others for allegedly spreading hate and trying to legitimize the far-right in Britain.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, through a spokesman, criticized the president for his retweets. The Prime Minister's spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this," reports stated.

On Thursday, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who has a history of feuding on Twitter with Trump, also released a formal statement condemning the POTUS for retweeting racist videos.

Check out his tweet here.

Apart from Khan, Trump’s actions also caused the British Parliament to raise a point of order.

Trump was also bashed for his actions by British lawmaker Chuka Umunna, who called for the president’s invitation to visit Great Britain to be annulled. The Hill reported his views about the same.

Umunna said, "I don't think the president of the United States, a president that has not only promoted bigotry, misogyny, and racism in his own country — I don't think he is welcome here. I think the invite that has been made to him to come to our country in early 2018 should be withdrawn."

He also added a leader of the free world should not normalize hatred, which is exactly what the POTUS has done. Umunna added it was a blatant abuse of power on the president’s part to share hateful videos with more than 43 million followers.

"Somebody in his position, doing what he has done and said, not only in his own country but now getting involved in the debate here, he is normalizing hatred. I think that takes us down a very, very dangerous road indeed and you've got to call it out."