President Donald Trump said Friday that immigrants fleeing violence and seeking asylum in Europe are changing “the fabric of Europe. … And I don’t mean that in a positive way.” Trump’s xenophobic comments came during a shocking interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun. Massive protests have greeted President Trump during his two-day trip to Britain — including a 20-foot-long giant baby Trump blimp outside Parliament. We go to the streets of London to speak with Ash Sarkar, the anti-Trump coalition organizer who confronted Piers Morgan during a “Good Morning Britain” interview Thursday that went viral.
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AMY GOODMAN: We begin our show in Britain, where President Trump is meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May today, just hours after warning that a “soft Brexit” will kill Britain’s chances of a future trade deal with the United States. In an explosive interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun — Murdoch is a Trump supporter — in which Trump claimed that Britain is “losing its culture” due to immigration, Trump said Theresa May had ignored his advice on Brexit negotiations.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If they do a deal like that, it will most likely—because we’ll be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal with—if they do that, their trade deal with the US is—will probably not be made. I did give Theresa, who I like—I did give her my views on what she should do and how she should negotiate. And she didn’t follow those views. I would—I would actually say she probably went the opposite way.
AMY GOODMAN: Trump went on to praise former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, calling him Britain’s future prime minister. Johnson resigned earlier this week in protest of Brexit negotiations, writing in his resignation letter the, quote, “Brexit dream was dying,” and “We are…