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Donald Trump, presumptive presidential candidate of the Republican Party, says he is unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron, British prime minister.

Cameron had criticised the US politician for saying he will restrict Muslims from his country.

After Trump’s call for an entry ban on Muslims, Cameron criticised Trump in the British parliament and suggested that he would unite Britain against him if he visited the UK.

But speaking in an interview with Britain’s ITV, Trump said he did not really care about Cameron comments.

“It looks like we’re not going to have a very good relationship, who knows,” Trump said in response to a question on what would happen if he emerges winner of the November 8 presidential election.

“I hope to have a good relationship with him but it sounds like he’s not willing to address the problem either.”

The United States is Britain’s closest ally and political leaders from both nations often speak of how the countries’ enjoy a special relationship.

On what led to his controversial comment, he said: “We have a tremendous problem with radical Islamic terror… The world is blowing up and it’s not people from Sweden that’s doing the damage okay. So we have a real problem.”

Trump, who had initially wished newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan well, said he was offended by Khan’s criticism that he was ignorant about Islam.

“He doesn’t know me, never met me, doesn’t know what I am all about. I think they are very rude statements. Frankly, tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements. It is ignorant for him to say that,” he said.

After Khan’s election, Trump had told the New York Times that he could make an exception for Khan, who is a Muslim, to visit the United States.

When asked about Britain’s membership of the EU, Trump said: “I’ve dealt with the European Union, it’s very, very bureaucratic, it’s very, very difficult. In terms of Britain I would say ‘what do you need it for’? But again, let people make up their own mind.”