US President Donald Trump is claiming he would take a “tougher” attitudetoward Brexit negotiations with the European Union than the approach nowbeing used by British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Without providing specifics, Trump says in an ITV interview to be broadcastSunday night that he would have used different tactics.

“Would it be the way I negotiate? No, I wouldn’t negotiate it the way it’s(being) negotiated… I would have had a different attitude,” he said. “Iwould have said that the European Union is not cracked up to what it’ssupposed to be.”

Britain is preparing to leave 28-nation bloc in March 2019. The complexnegotiations have moved slowly and May’s Cabinet seems deeply divided overhow best to separate.

In the interview with Piers Morgan, Trump says he looks forward to visitingBritain — where he has been invited sometime for a state visit to be hostedby Queen Elizabeth II — and apologizes for retweeting videos by a far-rightgroup in Britain, which exacerbated tensions with May and drew complaintsin Parliament. He also said Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Marklelook like a “lovely couple” but he doesn’t know if he’s been invited totheir May 19 nuptials at Windsor Castle. Trump was unperturbed when toldthat Markle backed his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 U.S.election and has described him as “divisive.”

“Well, I still hope they’re happy,” he says.

Trump also says his administration might not withdraw from the 2015 Parisclimate accord if terms more favourable to the United States are reached,in part because he likes French President Emmanuel Macron, a driving forcebehind implementing the accord.

The interview was conducted Thursday during Trump’s visit to the WorldEconomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The guest list for Harry and Markle’s wedding has not been made public andthe prince’s press team said invitations have not been sent out yet.

The British press has been filled with speculation that Harry and Marklemight snub Trump and invite former U.S. President Barack Obama instead.Obama gave Harry a rare interview last year that was broadcast on the BBC.

Trump, in contrast, has angered many in Britain with his crackdown onimmigration and his climate change policies.

Yet during the ITV interview, he seemed open to revisiting his pledge towithdraw from Paris climate accord, in which nations set their own goals toreduce the emissions of heat-trapping gases. Because of legaltechnicalities, America can’t get out of the pact until November 2020.

“If somebody said, ‘Go back into the Paris accord,’ it would have to be acompletely different deal, because we had a horrible deal,” Trump said.

“Would I go back in? Yeah, I’d go back in. I like, as you know, I likeEmmanuel (Macron). I would love to, but it’s got to be a good deal for theUnited States,” he added.

Trump also said the Earth’s climate has been cooling as well as warming andasserted that ice caps have not been shrinking as predicted. – Agencies