President Trump has been caught in another whopper.
On Sunday, he took to Twitter to blast reports that he called the Meghan Markle “nasty.”
“I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty,’ ” Trump tweeted. “Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold! Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize? Doubt it!”
Despite denying the comment about Markle, there’s an audio recording of his remarks. The controversy over his remarks about the duchess of Sussex erupted just days before Trump is scheduled to visit the U.K.
During a Friday interview with Britain’s The Sun tabloid, he was asked his thoughts on the former Suits actress.
The reporter baited Trump by saying Markle “wasn’t so nice” to him during the 2016 presidential race. Trump responded to the reporter by calling Markle “nasty.”
His response went viral after it was shared by The Sun and a Trump campaign Twitter account. The exchange included a reporter telling Trump Markle would not be present for his visit.
Reporter: [Markle] can’t make it because she has maternity leave. Are you sorry not to see her, because she wasn’t so nice about you during the campaign. I don’t know if you saw that?
Trump: I didn’t know that. No, I hope she’s OK. I did not know that, no.
Reporter: She said she’d move to Canada if you got elected. It turned out she moved to Britain.
Trump: There are a lot of people moving here [U.S.] So, what can I say? No, I didn’t know that she was nasty.
Still, he did have some nice things to say about the American-turned-British royal.
“I’m sure she’ll do excellently,” Trump said about the California native becoming a royal. “She’ll be very good. I hope she does.”
Markle isn’t scheduled to attend Trump’s visit with the royal family, or the state dinner on June 3. The new mom is on maternity leave, caring for her nearly month-old son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
The former actress, activist and entrepreneur was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, with a double major in theater and international studies, and also studied in Spain.
After graduating from college, she worked as a freelance calligrapher and taught bookbinding until her acting career took off. She started landing small guest roles on TV shows before joining the cast of Suits.
During a 2016 interview with comedian Larry Wilmore, the then-actress called Trump “divisive” and said he was alienating women voters.
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