The US president would be met with huge protests if he visited.
Donald Trump has cancelled his planned visit to the United Kingdom in February 2018.
The US president had been due to open the new American embassy in London, but has pulled out because he is "unhappy about the arrangements and scale of the visit," according to a new report from The Daily Mail.
Trump confirmed he is cancelling the visit in a tweet sent late on Thursday, but said it was due to his displeasure over the location of the new embassy.
"Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold 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 dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!" he wrote.
Any visit by Trump to the UK seems certain to be met with huge protests, with 55% of Brits in one poll calling for his planned state visit to be cancelled. In late 2017 he embroiled himself in an unprecedented spat with British Prime Minister Theresa May, attacking her over terrorism in the UK after he retweeted videos shared by a far-right anti-Muslim extremist from Britain — sparking universal condemnation from British politicians.
After his election, Theresa May invited Trump to the United Kingdom for an official "state visit," but he has yet to take her up on the offer. The February visit would have been a lower-profile "working visit" with less pomp and ceremony, but now secretary of state Rex Tillerson will visit instead, The Daily Mail reports.
It's not clear when Trump might visit the UK instead.
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