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President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that he never called Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, “nasty.” president used jective while discussing Meghan in a recent interview with Britain’s Sun newspaper in run-up to his state visit to U.K. on Monday. But debate on social media since n has rd over wher his use of “nasty” referred to duchess herself or negative things she said about him in 2016.

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Trump and his defenders have accused news media of spreing a deliberately false narrative about him.

A look at claim:

TRUMP: “I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty.’ Me up by Fake News Media, and y got caught cold!” — tweet Sunday.

TRUMP: “I me b comment” — he told reporters Sunday when asked about comment as he left White House for trip to London.

FACTS: Trump, in fact, did use word “nasty” to describe Meghan when asked about her comments about him during 2016 campaign.

In audio of interview posted on newspaper’s website, Trump discusses upcoming state visit, his second meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and Trump family members who are tagging along on trip. reporter n asks about Meghan, who isn’t joining or royals to meet Trump and his wife, Melania, due to recent birth of her first child, Archie, in May.

Asked if he was sorry to miss out on meeting American-born Meghan and told that she “wasn’t so nice about you” during campaign, Trump says: “I didn’t kw that. , I hope she’s OK. I did t kw that.”

When told that Meghan once said she might move to Cana if Trump was elected, Trump responds: “, I didn’t kw that she was nasty.”

former Meghan Markle supported Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, calling Trump “divisive” and “misogynistic.” former actress also said she might move to Cana. “Suits,” cable TV legal drama she starred in at time, was filming in Toronto.

She ultimately married Prince Harry in 2018 and moved to Britain. After interview was released, reporters at some news organizations tweeted that Trump called Meghan “nasty,” sparking debate.

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case isn’t as clear as Trump portrays it to be, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Jamieson said in an email that since Trump’s interviewer is informing him about a statement that Trump says he was unaware of “one would ordinarily assume that his answer refers to that statement.” But she says answer — “was nasty” — could refer to a person or to what person said. Complicating matters, Jamieson said, is Trump’s history of verbal attacks on people he views as antagonists and his sensitivity to negative statements about his election.

“As a result, difficult to kw what he meant,” she said.In Sun interview, Trump also spoke positively about Meghan when asked wher it was good for an American to be a member of British royal family.

“I think it’s nice. I’m sure she will do excellently,” Trump said. “She’ll be very good. She’ll be very good. I hope she does.”