US ambassador to Britain says Trump attack on Theresa May was about ’protecting Americans’

US President Donald Trump’s attack on British Prime Minister Theresa May on tackling terrorism was about protecting Americans and the whole transatlantic row over his sharing of anti-Muslim videos online was probably misinterpreted, the United States ambassador to the UK has said.

US President Donald Trump’s attack on British Prime Minister Theresa May on tackling terrorism was about protecting Americans and the whole transatlantic row over his sharing of anti-Muslim videos online was probably misinterpreted, the United States ambassador to the UK has said.

US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, said the US president was not "namby-pamby" in his commitment to dealing with radical Islamist terror and would "take some chances" to achieve his goal.