UK officials apologize to US for ambassador calling Trump ‘inept’

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Multiple members of the British government issued an apology on behalf the country to the U.S. after the UK ambassador to the U.S. called President Trump “inept” in a leaked memo.

”Contact has been made with the Trump administration, setting out our view that we believe the leak is unacceptable,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters Monday. “It is, of course, a matter of regret that this has happened.”

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