Trump speaks with British PM for first time since Twitter controversy

President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke by phone Tuesday morning, their first conversation since a dispute over Trump’s tweets. 

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the two leaders spoke. 

Trump inflamed U.S.-United Kingdom (U.K.) tensions last month when he shared unverified videos published by a British far-right group that purported to show violence committed by Muslims.

May’s office said at the time that it was “wrong for the president to have done this.”

The White House defended the tweets and Trump hit back against May, tweeting “don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!”

A Downing Street spokesperson did not say if the tweets came up on the call, which the U.K. says was initiated by May. 

The two leaders discussed Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the conflict in Yemen and Brexit negotiations, the spokesperson said. May also offered condolences for Monday’s deadly train derailment in Washington state. 

A White House readout of the call matched that description, adding that Trump congratulated May over the European Union’s decision to move forward with the second phase of Brexit negotiations. No mention of Trump’s tweets was made in the readout.

The relationship between Trump and May has also been frayed by the president’s Jerusalem decision, a break with overwhelming international sentiment that the city’s status should be decided through negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

The U.K. voted with 13 other countries this week for a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on states to refrain from building embassies in Jerusalem. 

The U.S. vetoed the resolution. 

— This story was updated at 2:40 p.m.