They've gone from awkwardly holding hands to engaging in a war of words, with President Trump, of all people, telling British Prime Minister Theresa May to mind her own business.
On Wednesday morning, Trump retweeted videos posted by a leader of the right-wing, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam group Britain First; one claimed to show a Muslim immigrant boy beating up a Dutch child (the Dutch embassy in the United States said the boy was not an immigrant, but was born and raised in the Netherlands, and was prosecuted). May's spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this," adding, "British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far-right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents: decency, tolerance, and respect."
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