Yvette Cooper left red-faced as post slating Donald Trump resurfaces

YVETTE Cooper has been left red-faced after old messages in which she called Donald Trump “childish and destructive” have resurfaced. 

The UK Foreign Secretary welcomed the US president last night as he arrived in the UK for an unprecedented second state visit. 

Following Trump's arrival, Cooper shared a message on social media where she hailed the UK and US’s “special relationship,” which she said was “built on decades of close cooperation”.

The Labour MP added that innovation, growth, and security for people on both sides of the Atlantic are at “the heart of this historic state visit”.

However, Cooper has been left red-faced after old posts from Trump’s first state visit in 2019 have resurfaced.

The Foreign Secretary wrote at the time: “So appalled Theresa May has given this man a red carpeted platform to do this. 

“Doesn’t help Britain to be lavishing pomp on a President so determined to be divisive, childish & destructive. 

“Doesn’t help US or world to be gifting him a whole load of Royal photo ops to use next year.”

Cooper’s message on the social media platform Twitter/X was in reply to Trump, who at the time was criticising her Labour colleague, Sadiq Khan.

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Trump had said that Khan had done a “terrible job” as Mayor of London and went on to call him a “stone cold loser” for speaking out against his first state visit. 

The US president and first lady, Melania Trump, are being hosted for three days by the King and Queen at Windsor Castle after plans to host the pair in Scotland for a more informal meeting were scrapped earlier this year.

Trump, the first ever convicted felon to become US president, has already been feted with a state visit to the UK, hosted by the late queen Elizabeth in 2019. It is unusual for a US president serving a second term to be offered a second state visit.

Hundreds of demonstrators have lined the streets in London in protest over Trump’s second state visit. 

Images of Trump and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein were also projected on the walls of Windsor Castle ahead of the US president's visit.