Donald Trump to visit Britain this month
Donald Trump is expected to visit the United Kingdom later this month for the opening of his luxury golf resort in Scotland, the campaign confirmed to CBS News.
The presumptive GOP nominee will be at the Turnberry hotel for its reopening on June 24, just one day after the United Kingdom votes on its "Brexit" referendum, a proposal for the U.K. to leave the European Union.
Trump has previously weighed in on the referendum, telling ITV's "Good Morning Britain" last month that trade relations between the U.S. and its British allies would remain positive whatever the "Brexit" outcome. Contradicting President Obama's warning in April that an exit from the E.U. would force Britain to the "back of the queue" when forming trade deals, Trump told ITV that the U.K. "would certainly not be back of the queue."
But in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday, Trump seemed unfamiliar with the term "Brexit."
When asked by the news outlet on "Brexit? Your position?" Trump's response was: "Huh?"
After some prompting, Trump later said: "Oh yeah, I think they should leave."
Trump's visit to Scotland will be his first trip across the pond since the candidate publicly fought with Prime Minister David Cameron over a proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States.
"It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship," Trump said of Cameron last month, after the British leader labeled the billionaire's call to ban Muslims "divisive, stupid, and wrong."
"Who knows, I hope to have a good relationship with him but he's not willing to address the problem either," Trump told ITV.
Trump's spat with Cameron came soon after London's first Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan, called the real estate mogul's views "ignorant." Khan later invited Trump to come to London to meet his family and Muslim Londoners.
Trump's comments on Muslims have also prompted a petition, addressed by the British Parliament's House of Commons earlier this year, to bar Trump from entering the United Kingdom. MPs remained divided over the petition, which received nearly 600,000 signatures.
CBS News' Sopan Deb contributed to this report.