{"id":352830,"date":"2025-08-17T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:51:11","slug":"more-than-happy-sadiq-khan-expresses-willingness-to-meet-trump-london-mayor-unshaken-by-us-leaders-nasty-person-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352830\/","title":{"rendered":"‘More than happy’: Sadiq Khan expresses willingness to meet Trump; London mayor unshaken by US leader’s ‘nasty person’ jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'MoreSadiq Khan (Image: X\/@MayorofLondon) and Donald Trump (AP image) London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he is willing to meet US President Donald Trump<\/a> and would be \u201cmore than happy to meet\u201d him, even as he warned that Trump\u2019s words could \u201cinadvertently radicalize people\u201d and that he is \u201cnot a force for good.\u201dThe Labour politician dismissed Trump\u2019s recent personal attacks, made during the US President\u2019s visit to Scotland, in which Trump called Khan \u201ca nasty person\u201d who had \u201cdone a terrible job.\u201d Khan described such comments as \u201cwater off a duck\u2019s back\u201d.However, speaking at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he admitted that the exchanges sometimes made him feel \u201cnine years old again\u201d and like he was \u201cin the school playground,\u201d as reported by the Independent. During the event, Khan had criticised Trump\u2019s views on women, black people, LGBTQ+ individuals, Muslims and Mexicans. \u201cSomebody who has views like he does about black people, about women, about gays, about Muslims, about Mexicans, thinks I\u2019m nasty. Really. He is the leader of the free world, arguably the most powerful man in the world, and really.\u201dKhan highlighted that since Trump began his second term in January, record numbers of Americans have applied for British citizenship and moved to London. \u201cSo I think Americans have got good taste by and large,\u201d he said.He hoped that Trump would visit London during his upcoming state visit to the UK, emphasizing that the city\u2019s diversity is a \u201cstrength, not a weakness.\u201d Speaking about diversity, he added, \u201cI think it makes us stronger not weaker, richer not poorer.” The London mayor warned that President Trump\u2019s words can push extreme views into the mainstream and become potentially dangerous. He may unintentionally radicalize people, prompting harmful actions.Khan also highlighted that minorities in London could face discrimination because of the Trump\u2019s statements. He accused US President of \u201cusing London and our diversity as a political football, as a proxy for a culture war.\u201dDespite his criticisms, Khan said he would be \u201cmore than happy to meet President Trump\u201d. The Labour politician said, \u201cI suspect President Trump may have formed a view of Muslims because of the actions of a small minority of really bad people who are terrorists and use Islam in a perverted way. \u201cWhat I would want President Trump to know is that is a very small fraction of Muslims across the globe. So if there was an opportunity to meet President Trump, I would be more than happy to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan (Image: X\/@MayorofLondon) and Donald Trump (AP image) London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he is willing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,124543,32,393,4884,528,8526,257,14251,76464,14252,16,15,124542],"class_list":{"0":"post-352830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-citizenship-applications","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-labour-party","14":"tag-lgbtq-rights","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-london-mayor","17":"tag-radicalization","18":"tag-sadiq-khan","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-us-president-visit-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115046795441925877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}