Ding ding ding! US President Donald Trump hit out at London mayor Sadiq Khan at the UN general assembly yesterday and now the Labour man is hitting back. The mayor has accused Trump of showing he is ‘racist, sexist, misogynist and Islamophobic’ after the President claimed Khan was trying to put London under sharia law. The gloves are coming off…
In an interview with BBC London, Khan fumed that ‘I appear to be living rent-free inside Donald Trump’s head’. He went on to rage:
People are wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multi-cultural, progressive and successful city, that means I appear to be living rent-free inside Donald Trump’s head. I think President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he is Islamophobic. When people say things, when people act in a certain way, when people behave in a certain way, you’ve got to believe them.
In another barb at the President – who called Khan a ‘terrible mayor’ – the Labour man remarked that he was ‘thankful we have record numbers of Americans coming to London’. He added that his city was ‘often the number one city on the globe when it comes to culture’.
It’s the latest development in a bitter war of words between the two leaders, with Khan attacking Trump in the Guardian ahead of his second state visit to the UK this month. The London mayor penned a rant in the Grauniad about how ‘President Donald Trump and his coterie have perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world’. Before this, Trump said during a visit to Scotland that Sir Sadiq was a ‘nasty person’ who had ‘done a terrible job’. The President has previously labelled Khan a ‘stone cold loser’ and challenged him to an IQ test. Whatever will he say to Khan’s latest intervention? Stay tuned…
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