UK’s Theresa May: Trump told me to ‘sue the EU’ over Brexit

US President Donald Trump has advised British Prime Minister Theresa May to “sue” the European Union to resolve the tense negotiations over Britain’s impending exit from the bloc, May says.

The American president told reporters Friday at a joint press conference with May that he had given the British leader a suggestion that she found too “brutal.”

Asked Sunday on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show what that suggestion was, May says with an amused expression: “He told me I should sue the EU. Not go into negotiation, sue them.”

She quickly follows with a laugh: “Actually we’re going into negotiations with them.”

She adds: “Interestingly, what the president also said at that press conference was ‘Don’t walk away. Don’t walk away from the negotiations. Then you’re stuck.'”

It wasn’t exactly clear what Trump meant, but the revelation caps a series of explosive and undiplomatic remarks Trump made this week about May’s leadership — especially her handling of the Brexit negotiations — as he made his first official visit to Britain.

— AP