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US President Donald Trump said Britain’s Prince Harry was a terrific guy and denied casting his American-born wife, Meghan, as a nasty person, claiming media had distorted his words as he actually felt she was very nice.
He also said he had a long discussion about climate change with heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, although Trump suggested he did not believe the Earth is getting hotter, but that “it changes both ways”.
Trump is on a pomp-laden state visit to Britain and has been feted by the royal family and Britain’s political elite.
Trump met Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles on Monday and was treated to a banquet at Buckingham Palace.
Hollywood actress Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, married Charles’s younger son Harry last year and gave birth to their first child, Archie, last month.
She criticised Trump during his 2016 election campaign as misogynistic and divisive.

Before arriving in Britain, Trump, on being told of Meghan’s criticism of him by The Sun newspaper, said: “I didn’t know that. What can I say? I didn’t know that she was nasty.”
But he also wished her well in her new life as a British royal.
Speaking to ITV in an interview aired on Wednesday, Trump clarified the comments saying that he had been referring specifically to Meghan being nasty to him and that he thought she was very nice.
“I said: ‘well I didn’t know she was nasty’ – I wasn’t referring to she’s nasty, I said ‘she was nasty about me’,” Trump told ITV.
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“And essentially, I didn’t know she was nasty about me. So I said ‘but you know what: she’s doing a good job – I hope she enjoys her life’.
“I think she is very nice. Honestly I don’t know her. So I have to be honest – I don’t know her,” Trump told ITV.
“She was nasty to me. And that’s OK for her to be nasty. It’s not good for me to be nasty to her and I wasn’t.”

Trump said that he had met Prince Harry during the visit: “I did. I did. I congratulated him and I think he’s a terrific guy. The royal family is really nice.”
“I think he is great,” Trump said of Harry.
Trump also said he was wowed by Prince Charles’s passion for fighting climate change and that he also wanted a world that is “good for future generations”.
Trump has rolled back environmental regulations and pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord since his surprise election in 2016.
Britain’s queen took a subtle jab at Donald Trump’s attacks on US allies while standing next him
“We were going to have a 15-minute chat. And it turned out to be an hour and a half. And he did most of the talking. He is really into climate change, and I think that’s great, I mean I want that, I like that,” Trump said.
“He wants to have a world that is good for future generations and I want that to.”
But he also stuck up for his own management of environmental policies.
“I did mention a couple of things, I did say, ‘Well the United States right now has among the cleanest climates there are, based on all statistics, and it’s even getting better’,” Trump said.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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Donald Trump’s mind boggling explanation about ‘nasty and nice’ Meghan

US President Donald Trump and his wife are on a three-day official visit to Britain. Photo: EPA

Ivanka Trump (C), daughter of US President Donald Trump, and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (R) view displays of US items of the Royal Collection at Buckingham palace at Buckingham Palace in central London on June 3, 2019, on the first day of the US president and First Lady's three-day State Visit to the UK. - Britain rolled out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump on June 3 as he arrived in Britain for a state visit already overshadowed by his outspoken remarks on Brexit. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / various sources / AFP)

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 3, 2018 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex greets wellwishers on arrival in Chichester, West Sussex, southern England, for an engagement at Edes House. - US President Donald Trump denied on June 2, 2019 that he had called Meghan Markle "nasty" just days before heading to Britain to be hosted, and lavishly feted, by other members of the royal family.And yet the remark about the American-born Dutchess of Sussex is heard clearly on a tape of a Trump interview with the British tabloid The Sun. Trump's tweet Sunday came a day before his three-day state visit is to begin with a pomp-filled ceremony at Buckingham Palace followed by lunch with 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / various sources / AFP)

Meghan Markle has become ‘Duchess Difficult’, if you believe the UK tabloids

Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (C) chats with actress Josephine Gordon (R) during a visit to the Royal Variety Charity's residential nursing and care home, Brinsworth House in Twickenham, south west London on December 18, 2018. - The honeymoon period for former actress and newly-minted British royal Meghan Markle, it seems, is over. Six months on from her fairytale wedding to Prince Harry at Windsor Castle, Meghan is faced with a daily barrage of tabloid headlines criticising her courtly manner and warning her against becoming "Duchess Difficult". (Photo by Geoff PUGH / POOL / AFP)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Britain's Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex arrive at the Storyhouse during their visit to Chester, Cheshire on June 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / PHIL NOBLE

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 31, 2018 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive for a public walkabout at the Rotorua Government Gardens in Rotorua, New Zealand. - Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan Markle will move into a historic cottage on the royal family's Windsor Estate early next year, Kensington Palace said on Saturday, November 24, 2018. (Photo by MICHAEL BRADLEY / POOL / AFP)

Six months on from her fairytale wedding to Prince Harry at Windsor Castle, Meghan Markle is faced with a daily barrage of tabloid headlines criticising her courtly manner. Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump denies calling Duchess Meghan ‘nasty’, despite clearly saying it in recorded interview

US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 3, 2018 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex greets wellwishers on arrival in Chichester, West Sussex, southern England, for an engagement at Edes House. - US President Donald Trump denied on June 2, 2019 that he had called Meghan Markle "nasty" just days before heading to Britain to be hosted, and lavishly feted, by other members of the royal family.And yet the remark about the American-born Dutchess of Sussex is heard clearly on a tape of a Trump interview with the British tabloid The Sun.  Trump's tweet Sunday came a day before his three-day state visit is to begin with a pomp-filled ceremony at Buckingham Palace followed by lunch with 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / various sources / AFP)

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In interview with ITV, US president offers a convoluted response to report he called Duchess Meghan ‘nasty’
‘She was nasty to me. And that’s OK for her to be nasty. It’s not good for me to be nasty to her and I wasn’t’


US President Donald Trump denied casting Prince Harry’s American-born wife Meghan as a nasty person. Rather, she was just nasty to Trump.


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