Donald Trump on Parliament ban debate: ‘I hear I had a very big success’

On Monday MPs gathered in Westminster Hall to debate whether or not Donald Trump should be allowed to visit Britain, after over 500,000 Brits signed a petition calling for Trump to be banned from the UK. Ahead of the debate, the SNP’s Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh argued that Trump ought to be banned as otherwise ‘what we’re saying is, if you’re a prospective presidential candidate, it’s alright to say what you want’.

So what did the man of the moment make of the debate which saw MPs call him a, others took the opportunity to call the Presidential hopeful a ‘fool’ and ‘buffoon’? It turns out that despite being insulted by several politicians, Trump hears it was a ‘very big success’. Speaking to Sky News’s Kay Burley, Trump thanked the British people for their support:

‘I have a great deal of supporters in the United Kingdom. We receive thousands and thousands of letters and emails and tweets.