Donald Trump today slammed Sadiq Khan as “vicious and disgusting”.
In a dammnig verdict of Europe’s handling of the migrant crisis, the US president claimed the London mayor was only elected “because so many migrants have come in”.
In his sweeping criticisms of European leaders’ inability to secure their borders, Mr Trump said: “I mean, look at… your mayor of London. He’s a disaster.
“He’s got a totally different ideology of what he’s supposed to have,.
“And he gets elected because so many people have come in.
“He’s a horrible mayor. He’s an incompetent mayor, but he’s a horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor. I think he’s done a terrible job. London’s a different place.”
Responding to Mr Trump’s comments, Sir Sadiq said: “I think the one part that President Trump has got right is that London is becoming a different place. We are the greatest city in the world.
“I suspect that’s one of the reasons why we have record numbers of Americans coming here to holiday, coming here to live, coming here to invest, or coming here to study.
Donald Trump has slammed Sadiq Khan as ‘vicious and disgusting’ in a fresh broadside
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“I literally have no idea why President Trump is so obsessed with this mayor of London. I’m not sure what he’s got against a liberal, progressive, diverse, successful city like London,” Sir Sadiq said.
The US President’s volcanic comments were delivered amid a dressing down of European leaders for presiding over unprecedented demographic change across the continent.
He said Europe was concerned with being “politically correct” and should “get the people out that came into the country illegally”.
“I think they’re weak, but I also think that they want to be so politically correct… I think they don’t know what to do,” he told Politico podcast The Conversation.
The London Mayor hit back, saying he had no idea why President Trump was ‘obsessed’ with him
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In the Trump administration’s 33-page National Security Strategy, it asserted Europe would be “unrecognisable in 20 years or less” and its economic issues were “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure”.
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