May Urges EU Heads to Be ‘Patient’ With Twitter-Happy Trump
- EU leaders rebuff May quest to be bridge to U.S. president
- Twitter is go-between, not Britain, Lithuanian president says
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with British Prime Minister Theresa May on their way for a family picture during an European Union summit on Feb. 3, in Valletta, Malta.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May told fellow European leaders they must be patient and constructive with Donald Trump after they said they don’t need her as a go-between in their relations with the U.S. President.
May briefed her counterparts a week after she held hands with Trump in the White House and told them the new president expects them to pay their share for defense in return for his “100 percent” commitment to NATO.