Donald Trump has alleged that he managed to get London mayor Sadiq Khan banned from attending the state banquet at Windsor Castle.
Speaking to reporters on his flight house from his 48-hour state go to, the US president stated Khan, a Labour determine who can also be a buddy to Keir Starmer, had wished to attend, however “I didn’t need him there”.
“I requested that he not be there,” he claimed. “I feel the mayor of London Khan is among the many worst mayors on the planet, and we’ve got some dangerous ones…”
According to The Telegraph, he stated: “I’ve not appreciated him for a very long time. I’ve a sure satisfaction in London, within the UK, my mom was born in Scotland, and after I see Mayor Khan do a nasty job – the stabbings, the filth and the filth – it’s not the identical. I didn’t need him there.”
It’s the most recent growth within the long-running spat between Trump and Khan.
Shortly earlier than his unprecedented second state go to, the London mayor accused the president of “fanning the flames of the far-right” together with his divisive politics in an article for the Guardian.
Khan claimed Trump’s behavior of “scapegoating minorities, and illegally deporting US residents, deploying the navy to the streets of numerous cities” was not a part of western values, however “straight out of the autocrat’s playbook”.
Trump additionally made time to inform reporters throughout his journey to Scotland in the summertime that he thought Khan was a “nasty individual” who has performed a “horrible job” managing the capital metropolis.
Last November after Trump received the presidential election, Khan stated Londoners could be “fearful” about what meaning “for democracy”.
But the tensions between them prolong again to Trump’s first time period within the White House too, after the president criticised Khan’s response to the London Bridge terror assault in 2017.
Trump additionally famously referred to as Khan a “stone chilly loser who ought to deal with crime in London”.
The mayor later described Trump as a “poster boy for racists”.
