The president has found a way to cancel a trip to London, saving the British from the problem of not inviting him to meet Queen Elizabeth II while there.
The plan was to have him attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new U.S. embassy building in London, but the president opted out, blaming former President Barack Obama for his decision.
He criticized the Obama administration for selling "perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for 'peanuts,' only to build a new one in an off location for $1.2 billion." He called it a "bad deal," and therefore he would not attend the opening ceremony.
Reality check: The new building cost $200 million less than that, and was not financed through taxpayer dollars but through a property swap after the old embassy became too run down, according to an NPR report, and could not longer provide adequate security. Moreover, the trade was negotiated by the administration of Republican President George W. Bush, not by Obama.
In any case, President Donald Trump will not go to London and visit the Queen. In any case, he was not formally invited, and the Brits don't even want him.
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