DONALD TRUMP launched an extraordinary attack Monday on outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency.

London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the weekend release of confidential telegrams in which its envoy to Washington, Kim Darroch, described the U.S. leader as “inept” and his White House as “uniquely dysfunctional.”

The memos from Darroch, British ambassador to Washington, were divulged to a Sunday newspaper, annoying Trump and embarrassing London.

Darroch had said Trump’s presidency could “crash and burn” and “end in disgrace,” according to a cache of secret cables and briefing notes sent back to Britain and seen by the Mail.

Darroch is one of Britain’s most experienced diplomats whose posting in Washington began in January 2016, prior to Trump winning the presidency.

Visibly angered by May’s continuing support for her ambassador, Trump assailed the prime minister over her handling of fraught Brexit negotiations, and welcomed her impending departure from office.

“What a mess she and her representatives have created,” Trump fumed in a series of tweets. “I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way.”

“The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister,” he wrote.

As for London’s man in Washington, Trump declared he would have no further contact with him.

“I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the U.S.,” the president said, doubling down on weekend comments claiming his administration were “not big fans” of Darroch.

“We will no longer deal with him,” Trump vowed.

But even after Trump’s remarks, a U.K. government spokesperson said that “Sir Kim Darroch continues to have the prime minister’s full support.”

The cables’ publication in the Mail on Sunday newspaper came just a month after Trump enjoyed a state visit to Britain that included a 41-gun salute welcome at the Buckingham Palace and a banquet dinner with Queen Elizabeth II.

The incident threatens to complicate London’s efforts to strike a new trade agreement with key ally the United States, in hope of mitigating potential damage from Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.

Trade minister Liam Fox, who is visiting Washington, told BBC radio he would apologize to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, whom he was due to meet.

British officials defended Darroch as carrying out his duties by providing “frank” accounts of developments in Washington.

“Our ambassadors provide honest, unvarnished assessments of politics in their country,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.

(SD-Agencies)