Trump lashes out at May over criticism of anti-Muslim retweets

US President Donald Trump has rebuked UK PM Theresa May after she criticised his social media posting of anti-Muslim videos from Britain First leader Jayda Fransen.

May’s spokesperson said on Wednesday it was “wrong” for Trump to share the videos, which purportedly show violence being committed by Muslims.

Trump responded by telling May to focus on battling Islamic terrorism in the UK, instead of criticising his actions.

"Don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom," Trump tweeted to May early on Thursday, seemingly oblivious to the 126 UK terrorist deaths since 2000 being dwarfed by the 14,173 gun-related violent deaths in the US in 2017 alone.

The three videos were originally posted by Fransen, the leader of far right party Britain First, which was formed by former members of UKIP in 2011. She has previously been convicted by the courts of religiously aggravated harassment.

The retweets arrived during a barrage of tweets on the social media site from the US President, with familiar topics such as accusing CNN and NBC of ‘fake news’.

Trump has previously been invited to the UK for a state visit, which he has not availed of yet following a series of controversies and protests against his actions in the UK.

Calls for the offer of the state visit to be rescinded increased in the aftermath of Trump’s tweets on Wednesday, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn among those calling for a cancellation.

Corbyn said the retweets were “abhorrent, dangerous and a threat to our society”.

Mayor of London Sadiq Kahn said the President had used twitter "to promote a vile, extremist group that exists solely to sow division and hatred in our country" and agreed that Trump's official visit to Britain "would not be welcomed".

Khan added: "Many Brits who love America and Americans will see this as a betrayal of the special relationship between our two countries. It beggars belief that the President of our closest ally doesn't see that his support of this extremist group actively undermines the values of tolerance and diversity that makes Britain so great.