Donald Trump has denied calling Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, "nasty" despite the comments coming from a recorded interview.
Mr Trump was asked by The Sun's political editor about the Duchess's comments about him before he took office, and before she married Prince Harry, in which she said she might move to Canada if he won election.
He claimed he had never heard the remarks before, and said: "What can I say? I didn't know that she was nasty."
The comment has sparked outrage, but the US president, who is due to start a three-day state visit to the UK on Monday, has now denied them.
Tweeting about the interview, he said: "I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty.' Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold! Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize? Doubt it!"
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Tom Newton-Dunn, who conducted the interview, tweeted: "Did @realDonaldTrump mean Meghan was a nasty person, or just that she had been nasty to him? Judge for yourself with the full audio of our exchange on the Royals."
In the rest of the latest interview with The Sun, Mr Trump went on to say he hoped Meghan was "OK" and that he thought it was "nice" that she had married into the Royal Family.
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