--- title: White House Denies Donald Trump's U.K. State Visit Postponed description: The White House denies Trump is postponing a U.K. state visit due to backlash over remarks he made about the terrorist attack in London canonical: https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-12T05:55:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:05:57.692Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Denies Postponing Trump's U.K. State Visit og:description: Trump infuriated Britons with a series of tweets after a terror attack in London og:url: https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc8da992d52a4cc2/6988d12bab6d7743f56ae811/gettyimages-633265620.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2720 og:image:height: 1530 og:image:alt: President Trump Meets With British PM Theresa May At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Denies Postponing Trump's U.K. State Visit twitter:description: Trump infuriated Britons with a series of tweets after a terror attack in London twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc8da992d52a4cc2/6988d12bab6d7743f56ae811/gettyimages-633265620.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The White House Has Denied Reports that Trump Is Putting His U.K. State Visit On Hold by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Jun 12, 2017 5:55 AM UTC  British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump walk along the Colonnade of the West Wing at the White House, January 27, 2017 in Washington. British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump walk along the Colonnade of the West Wing at the White House, January 27, 2017 in Washington.Christopher Furlong—Getty Images by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Jun 12, 2017 5:55 AM UTC The White House [has denied](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/11/politics/trump-uk-visit/index.html) a report that U.S. President Donald Trump is putting a planned state visit to the U.K. on hold due to backlash over remarks he made after a recent terrorist attack in London. CNN reports that two senior members of the Trump administration have disputed an article [published](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/11/donald-trump-state-visit-to-britain-put-on-hold) by the _Guardian_ Sunday suggesting that Trump had effectively postponed the visit over concerns that he may be [met with protests](http://time.com/4666789/donald-trump-united-kingdom-theresa-may/). The initial report said Trump recently spoke by phone with British Prime Minister Theresa May, reportedly telling her he would not come to London without the support of the public. According to CNN, a senior administration official said the planned state visit “never came up on the call,” while a second official also dismissed the report. Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also [denied ](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/politics/trump-uk-visit.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&%5Fr=0)the report, according to the _New York Times,_ using the same language as the official cited by CNN. The BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40241220) that a spokesperson for Downing Street denied the report as well, saying there had been “no change” to plans for Trump’s state visit, for which no date has been set. Trump infuriated Britons with a series of tweets shortly after a terror attack in London killed eight people and injured 48 others on June 3\. The U.S. President initially [cited the incident](http://time.com/4804457/london-attack-donald-trump-travel-ban/) in support of his administration’s controversial proposal to ban travel from six Muslim-majority countries, and later mischaracterized comments made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who Trump [criticized](http://time.com/4805285/donald-trump-twitter-london-attack/) as “pathetic.” **Read more:** [_President Trump’s Attack on London Mayor_](http://time.com/4805994/donald-trump-london-mayor-attack-twitter/) In the wake of the online feud, Khan told Britain’s Channel 4 News that [Trump was unwelcome](http://time.com/4806708/london-mayor-trump-state-visit-cancel-twitter/) in the U.K. “I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the President of the U.S.A. in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for,” Khan said. \[[CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/11/politics/trump-uk-visit/index.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/"},"headline":"The White House Has Denied Reports that Trump Is Putting His U.K. State Visit On Hold","datePublished":"2017-06-12T05:55:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:05:57.692Z","description":"Trump infuriated Britons with a series of tweets shortly after a terror attack in London","url":"https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/","keywords":["White House","United Kingdom","Donald Trump","Theresa May","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc8da992d52a4cc2/6988d12bab6d7743f56ae811/gettyimages-633265620.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc8da992d52a4cc2/6988d12bab6d7743f56ae811/gettyimages-633265620.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Meets With British PM Theresa May At The White House","caption":"President Trump Meets With British PM Theresa May At The White House","creditText":"Christopher Furlong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4814207/white-house-denies-state-visit-canceled/","name":"The White House Has Denied Reports that Trump Is Putting His U.K. State Visit On Hold"}}]}] ```