{"id":657004,"date":"2025-12-27T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:34:15","slug":"sadiq-khan-reignites-war-of-words-with-donald-trump-as-he-claims-us-president-routinely-attacks-incredibly-successful-london-because-he-is-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657004\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan reignites war of words with Donald Trump as he claims US President routinely attacks ‘incredibly successful’ London because he is jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"

By SAM MERRIMAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 19:08 EST, 26 December 2025 | Updated: 20:07 EST, 26 December 2025 <\/p>\n

Sadiq Khan<\/a> has claimed that Donald Trump<\/a> routinely attacks ‘incredibly successful’ London<\/a> because he is jealous.<\/p>\n

The Mayor of London reignited his war of words with the US President yesterday as he said the capital is safer than any American city.<\/p>\n

Sir Sadiq claimed that Mr Trump only attacks the capital because he is ‘jealous he hasn’t got any global cities in America that can compete with London’.<\/p>\n

The Mayor, who has been in office since 2016, also said that MPs who criticise the capital are ‘unpatriotic’ as he accused them of attacking London because it’s ‘incredibly successful’.<\/p>\n

It is the latest skirmish in a long-running feud between the Labour Mayor and the US President, with Mr Trump earlier this month branding Sir Sadiq a ‘horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor’.<\/p>\n

Sir Sadiq questioned whether Mr Trump was ‘obsessed’ after the President said: ‘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.’<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has also claimed that parts of London had become no-go zones for the police, while vice-president J. D. Vance claimed in 2024 that London was becoming an ‘Islamist country’.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Financial Times yesterday, Sir Sadiq said London has become a proxy in a bitter culture war, which he claimed had spilled over into an increase in racism in the capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mr Trump has also claimed that parts of London had become no-go zones for the police, while vice-president J. D. Vance claimed in 2024 that London was becoming an ‘Islamist country’<\/p>\n

He said: ‘I think some of this may be a President who’s jealous he hasn’t got any global cities in the US that can compete with London. New York is a great city, it’s probably the second greatest city in the world.<\/p>\n

‘But I’d be happy to compare Trump’s favourite city’s subway with our Elizabeth Line.<\/p>\n

‘There are far fewer homicides in London than in any state in the US, far fewer than in New York, LA or Chicago.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sir Sadiq said he understands why Mr Trump would want to talk down a rival global metropolis, but said he was more disappointed that ‘unpatriotic’ British MPs would follow suit.<\/p>\n

‘I can see that they are worried about London’s success,’ he said ‘That’s because we are a diverse, progressive, liberal and multicultural city that’s incredibly successful. We’re the antithesis of all the stuff they talk about.’<\/p>\n

The Mayor also warned Sir Keir Starmer not to adopt tax policies that are driving away the rich.<\/p>\n

‘The idea that all non-doms are bogeymen is not my experience,’ he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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