{"id":33382,"date":"2026-05-11T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:13:40","slug":"sadiq-khan-reignites-donald-trump-feud-days-after-labour-battered-in-london-elections-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33382\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan reignites Donald Trump feud days after Labour battered in London elections | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of London claims he is \u201cliving rent-free\u201d in Donald Trump’s head<\/a> as he responded to the US leader’s criticism. Sir Sadiq Khan<\/a> added that it is \u201cabsurd\u201d that he has attracted so much attention from the US president.<\/p>\n

The London<\/a> Mayor told the Big Issue magazine that London is the \u201cantithesis\u201d of all Mr Trump believes in. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s absurd that President Trump is obsessed with me. It\u2019s like I\u2019m living rent-free inside this guy\u2019s head for 10 years now. President Trump, objectively speaking, is a nativist. He\u2019s a protectionist and a unilateralist. He believes in mono-ethnicism. He believes in the superiority of his religion, Christianity, and of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Sadiq has regularly been the subject of criticism from Trump, with the US President often criticising his record as mayor and directing a number of personal attacks against him.<\/p>\n

Last year, the US President labelled Khan a \u201cnasty person\u201d who has done \u201ca terrible job\u201d, as he met with Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> during a visit to the UK.<\/p>\n

The US President said he was \u201cnot a fan\u201d of London\u2019s Labour Mayor when asked if he would visit the UK\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at his Turnberry golf resort in South Ayrshire, Mr Trump said: \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of your mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s done a terrible job, the Mayor of London \u2026 a nasty person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister intervened to say: \u201cHe\u2019s a friend of mine, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Trump went on to add: \u201cI think he\u2019s done a terrible job. But I would certainly visit London.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has previously directed his ire at Khan, branding him a \u201cstone cold loser\u201d and challenging him to an IQ test.<\/p>\n

Addressing the plethora of criticism sent his way across the Atlantic, Khan added: \u201cLook at London. A city that is progressive, liberal, diverse, multicultural and the greatest city in the world. So we are the antithesis of all he believes in.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I can understand why he wants to spread disinformation about this dystopian version of London because Londoners have chosen this guy who\u2019s a Muslim of Pakistani origin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor said the president\u2019s rhetoric is dangerous, adding: \u201cThe problem is, he\u2019s brought into the mainstream views that should be in the periphery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mayor of London claims he is \u201cliving rent-free\u201d in Donald Trump’s head as he responded to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[361,27,13644,473,10552],"class_list":["post-33382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-donald-trump","tag-london","tag-london-elections","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-us-uk-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116554708522012995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}