Donald Trump not coming to the UK because 'he's scared he won't get the love he deserves', says Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff

The author of a controversial new book about Donald Trump has claimed the US president cancelled his visit to the UK because he "felt he wouldn't receive the love he deserves".

Michael Wolff, author of the best selling tell-all book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, described the President as "beyond reason, beyond control, beyond expectations".

He told Sky News on Monday: "It is a president and a presidency that clearly, in every possible way, on every possible reasonable terms, doesn't work."

Mr Trump recently said he was cancelling his planned trip to the UK to open the new US embassy in London, ostensibly because he was displeased the Obama administration sold the embassy's former location "for peanuts".

When quizzed on this move, he said: "I think the deeper reason is that he felt he would come to the United Kingdom and he would not receive the love he believes he deserves.

"I think he was probably supported in this decision by the people around him because they know bad things happen when this president does not receive the love he believes he deserves."

"When he feels people are not according him proper respect, proper love, proper regard for him as a legitimate president, he goes crazy."

The president and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckerbee Sanders have sought to play down claims in the book as tabloid gossip.

They include allegations that Mr Trump never expected to win the election, eats cheeseburgers in his West Wing bedroom while watching his three TVs, and played seduction games with wives of friends.

Mr Wolff, 64, a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter who has also written for magazines including Vanity Fair, has claimed he had “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing.”

Figures released earlier this week suggest Mr Wolff could expect to make £5.8million ($8million) off the back of the book's sales.