“I Think He’s Got A Crush On Me”: The Mayor Of London, Sadiq Khan, Is Going Viral For His A+ Response To Trump’s Blistering Attacks On Him
Khan’s comments come after Trump accused him of wanting to introduce “Sharia law” in London, called him a “nasty person,” and branded him “among the worst mayors in the world.”
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is going viral after he theorized that US President Donald Trump has a “crush” on him following Trump’s latest round of nasty comments about the British politician.
For what it’s worth, the feud between the two men has been going on for a decade now, with the whole thing starting after Khan criticized then-presidential candidate Trump’s proposed “Muslim ban” back in 2015, and told the BBC that he hopes he “loses badly.”
Things escalated in 2017, when Trump spread misinformation about Khan in the wake of a terror attack in London that killed eight people. At the time, Khan had told citizens not to be alarmed by a larger-than-normal police presence in the city after the attack, but Trump accused the mayor of trying to downplay the incident, tweeting: “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’”
In 2018, Khan’s office permitted anti-Trump activists to fly a protest blimp that depicted Trump as a baby wearing a diaper during Trump’s planned visit to the UK, and during this visit, Trump tweeted that Khan “has done a terrible job as mayor of London” and called him “a stone-cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me”.
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But things really came to a head this year, starting back in August when Trump was asked if he planned to visit London during his upcoming state trip to the UK. Speaking to reporters from his golf resort in Scotland, Trump said: “I’m not a fan of your mayor. I think he’s done a terrible job, the Mayor of London… A nasty person.”
And earlier this month, Trump admitted that he asked for Khan to be excluded from events during his trip, including the lavish state banquet, saying: “I asked that he not be there.”
Then, on Tuesday, Trump used his 55-minute speech to the United Nations to attack Khan yet again, saying: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
And now, Khan has hit back at Trump in spectacular fashion during an interview with Metro. Asked what he thought of Trump’s most recent comments, he said: “People will be wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multicultural, successful, diverse city. It seems to me that I’m living rent-free inside Donald Trump’s head.”
The reporter then jokingly asked why Trump is so “obsessed” with him, and Khan replied: “I think he’s got a crush on me. It’s either that or he believes in giving me squatters’ rights inside his head!”
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Sadiq Khan has spoken out about Donald Trump after the pair clashed over the US President’s ‘bigoted comments’ at the UN General Assembly. During his speech at the UN headquarters in New York City yesterday, Trump falsely claimed that Sir Sadiq wants to introduce Sharia law in London. #donaldtrump #sadiqkhan #us #UK #newyorkcity #UN
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In another interview after Trump’s UN speech, Khan said: “I think President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic, and he’s Islamophobic.”
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