Donald Trump continues feud with Meghan Markle over 'nasty' remarks on eve of D-Day ceremony

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President Trump made several comments about Duchess Meghan ahead of his U.K. visit.
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DUBLIN – President Donald Trump continued to squabble with the British royal family on Tuesday, telling a British television journalist that he didn’t believe Meghan Markle was “nasty,” only her comments about him. 

The president, who is meeting with European leaders this week and attending ceremonies to honor the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, has simultaneously battled with the Duchess of Sussex, the mayor of London and others. 

“She was nasty about me,” Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan that was set to air Wednesday morning in Britain, the day before Trump will head to Normandy to honor the soldiers who stormed the beaches there and turned the tide of World War II. “That’s OK for her to be nasty. It’s not good for me to be nasty to her and I wasn’t.’

Trump was referring to an interview in Washington last Friday with The Sun, in which reporters asked for Trump’s thoughts on the former American actress, who “wasn’t so nice” to him during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“I didn’t know that. What can I say? I didn’t know that she was nasty,” Trump said.

Trump, who often makes waves during his overseas visits and who began this week-long trip with a Twitter fight aimed at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, also said he met with Prince Harry, despite rumors that Harry had avoided an exchange.

“I congratulated him. I think he’s terrific – he couldn’t have been nicer,” Trump said.

Trump also appeared to walk back an assertion he made hours earlier during a press conference with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May. At the press conference, Trump said that Britain’s National Health Service could be part of a negotiation for a new trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K.

Some Britons fear the trade talks could open up the country’s health care system to private U.S. firms.

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But after an uproar over his comments, Trump appeared to reverse course.

“That’s something I would not consider part of trade,” he told Morgan. “That’s not trade.”

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US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump, both right, greet Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, ahead of a dinner at Winfield House, the residence of the US Ambassador, where US President Trump is staying whilst in London, on June 4, 2019, on the second day of the US President’s three-day State Visit to the UK. Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty ImagesThe dining room is set for a dinner for President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Prince Charles, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at the U.S. ambassador’s residence, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in central London. Alex Brandon, AP

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