Donald Trump’s trip to the UK has finished and it appears his love-in with London has ended too. In a speech at the UN headquarters in New York, the US President took a pop at London mayor Sadiq Khan – calling him a ‘terrible, terrible mayor’ – before claiming that the Labour politician wants to put the British capital under sharia law. He knows how to grab headlines, eh?
In a scathing address to the UN’s general assembly, Trump fumed about Khan:
I have to say, I look at London – where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor – it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to shariah law. But you’re in a different country, you can’t do that.
Turning his guns on the European Union, the President raged to leader that: ‘Your countries are going to hell.’ He added: ‘Both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately.’
Shots fired! It would appear Trump’s second state visit didn’t leave the President as impressed as Sir Keir Starmer might have hoped…
The President’s outburst comes after the London mayor wrote a rather punchy article in the Guardian ahead of the US leader’s most recent visit to the UK – in which he accused ‘President Donald Trump and his coterie’ of doing ‘the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world’. The gloves are off…
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