The newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump is due to meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May this coming week, the White House announced on Saturday.
The meeting with May, which is set to take place on Friday, will be Trump’s first with a foreign leader as the long-standing US ally prepares to start negotiations to leave the European Union. Reports Deutsche Welle.
In an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday, May said she would use the opportunity to discuss the Britain’s future trading relationship with the United States, as well as NATO and the challenges of combating terrorism.
May ‘won’t be afraid’ to challenge Trump
Although she said she looks forward to expanding the “special relationship” between London and Washington, she said she wouldn’t back down from speaking up if Trump says something “unacceptable.”
“Whenever there is something that I find unacceptable I won’t be afraid to say that to Donald Trump,” May told the BBC.
May’s interview came on the heels of massive women’s protests against Trump that were held around the world, drawing millions of male and female demonstrators. In London alone, organizers estimated that 80,000 to 100,000 people took part in the march.
The British prime minister did not directly answer questions as to whether she would address some of the derogatory comments Trump has made about women. She did say that her presence in the meeting as a female world leader will be enough of a statement.
“When I sit down (with Trump) I think the biggest statement that will be made about the role of women is the fact that I will be there as a female prime minister,” May said.