President Donald Trump is considering canceling his planned state visit to the United Kingdom, according to an article in The Guardian.

The president reportedly told Prime Minister Theresa May that he did not wish to go through with the official visit in October if he were to be met with massive protests, a Downing Street adviser purportedly in the room with May during the conversation told The Guardian. When Trump floated the idea that his trip could be postponed to a later date if he lacked sufficient support, May reportedly was stunned.

A spokesperson for May declined to comment further on the conversation other than to say, “The Queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the U.K., and there is no change to those plans.”

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White House spokesman Raj Shahm, however, shot down the report, telling Jenna Johnson of The Washington Post: “The President has tremendous respect for Prime Minister May. That subject never came up on the call.”

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Johnson added: “Press secretary Sean Spicer chimes in and tells me the Guardian report is ‘false.’ (White House won’t say when Trump plans to go to the U.K.)”

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May was the first foreign leader to pay a visit to Trump at the White House, seven days after his inauguration. On that visit, she extended the invitation from Queen Elizabeth II for the president and first lady Melania Trump to travel to the U.K. for a state visit.

Some of May’s advisers told her the offer should have been “put back a bit” because of the trouble Trump was experiencing from the Left after issuing a temporary travel ban on citizens from six countries compromised by terrorism.

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In late January, the former head of the Foreign Office, Lord Peter Ricketts, said that a visit by Trump would put the Queen in a “very difficult position,” and one million British citizens signed a petition calling for the queen and the prime minister to rescind the invitation, saying, “Donald Trump’s well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales.”

Renewed calls for refusing Trump’s visit came in the aftermath of the June 3 terror attack in London, when the president criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan for his response to the attack, in which he said Britons needn’t be “alarmed” in referring to the increased police presence on the streets of London.

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On “BBC Breakfast,” Khan addressed Trump’s criticism and called for a cancellation of the state visit, saying, “there are so many things Donald Trump is wrong about, and in those circumstances I’m not in favor of a state visit.”

Tim Farron, a Member of Parliament and the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said that May’s “supine relationship” with Trump cannot stand because “Trump is an embarrassment to America.”

“Sadiq Khan has shown dignity and leadership,” Farron said, according to the Independent. “Theresa May absolutely must withdraw the state visit. This is a man insulting our national values at a time of introspection and mourning.”

But May refused to grant Khan’s and Farron’s request, and  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson backed up May’s decision in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Today,” saying, “The invitation has been issued and accepted, and I see no reason to rescind that.”

Now that the report of Trump’s uncertainty has surfaced, more British politicians are jumping on the bash-Trump bandwagon, including Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tweeted, “Cancellation of President Trump’s State Visit is welcome, especially after his attack on London’s mayor & withdrawal from #ParisClimateDeal.”

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