11-06-2017 16:25 via theguardian.com

So Trump’s too scared to come to the UK. Who says protest doesn’t work? | Hugh Muir

If he can’t bomb it or tweet against it, the US president’s cupboard of responses seems bare. So we are denied a spectacle but saved a distractionHow might President Trump react to a world leader who, afraid for his image, perhaps afraid for himself, refused to fulfil a promise to visit a loyal ally. He might fire off a tweet: “RAN from critics. A gift for crooked MSM. TOTAL pathetic loser!”But he won’t because the loser is him. He got to hold hands with Theresa May
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