Sources close to the US President claim he will be visiting London on an official visit some time within the next 12 months
"Bad deal. Wanted me to cut the ribbon - NO!"
Meanwhile, there was some criticism of Mr Trump describing the new location of the United States embassy as "off-location"; its current home is in the heart of the West End in Grosvenor Square and is being moved to improve security.
Hours later, Trump's ambassador to Britain, businessman and New York Jets owner Robert "Woody" Johnson, took an entirely different approach to the embassy's relocation and construction in an age when Trump has vowed to shake up America's place in the world - even among rock-solid North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies such as Germany, and, it would appear, in the U.K.as well.
A Trump visit has been on the cards since British Prime Minister Theresa May visited the United States a few days after Trump's inauguration previous year. Mr Johnson suggested that Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, had scuppered the chance of a visit from the U.S. president in an effort to draw a partisan line on the issue.
The State Department, however, announced plans for relocating the London embassy in 2008, while George W. Bush was still president, because of concerns about security following the September 11 terror attacks.
The White House said it will announce details "soon" of Trump's proposed visit to the UK. In December, Johnson said he was looking forward to welcoming the president.
"This reinforces what a mistake it was for Theresa May to rush and extend an invitation of a state visit in the first place".
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump's comment was exclusively about an embassy-related visit.
It does not mean plans for the US President's state visit to the United Kingdom are off entirely, with a Downing Street spokesman telling the newspaper: "An invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted".
Relations between the USA and its closest ally have been tested repeatedly since Trump took office nearly a year ago.
The exchange prompted further calls to dump the visit.
"Many Londoners have made it clear that Donald Trump is not welcome here while he is pursuing such a divisive agenda", Khan said on Friday.
"His visit next month would, without doubt, have been met by mass peaceful protests", the mayor added.
But Johnson accused Khan and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of damaging US-UK relations with their vocal criticism.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson fired back at Khan on Twitter, saying on Friday that he would "not allow US-UK relations to be endangered" by the London Mayor, whom he referred to as a "pompous puffed up popinjay in City Hall".
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