London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls Trump ‘racist, sexist and Islamophobic’ after UNGA speech

London – The mayor of London labeled Donald Trump “racist, sexist and Islamophobic” after the president used an address of the United Nations General Assembly to call him a “terrible mayor” and wrongly affirm that the city wanted to be governed by Islamic law.

“I think Donald Trump has shown that he was racist, he is sexist, he is misogynist and he is Islamophobic,” the journalists told Sadiq Khan on Wednesday.

The couple exchanged numerous barbed wire comments since Khan was elected to lead London in 2016 – Khan firmly criticized the president the same year for promising a trip to travel on a certain number of countries of the Muslim majority, which was promulgated in 2017. Trump called Londonian and former member of the Parliament “a nasty” during a press conference in July.

“I think people wonder what it is this Muslim mayor who directs a liberal, multicultural, progressive and successful city which means that I seem to live in the head of Donald Trump, without rental,” said Khan.

Trump used a section of his speech on Tuesday to the UN to make sweeping in various member states and the institution itself.

“I watch London, where you have a terrible mayor, a terrible and terrible mayor, and it was changed, it was so changed,” he said. “Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in another country, you can’t do that.”

Initially, the Khan team at the Town Hall has published a statement saying: “We are not going to dignify its appalling and sectarian comments with an answer.”

But Wednesday, speaking from the upper bridge of a London bus, Khan said he was grateful to the “record number of Americans” who came to London, who, according to him, was the highest since the records. “There must be a reason for that,” he said.

Khan’s pointed criticism was in contrast to the approach adopted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Last week saw King Charles III and Starmer welcome Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a sumptuous state visit – an unprecedented second trip to Great Britain for an in -office.

In particular after Trump launched a world war in the trade, prices with dozens of nearby allies, including the United Kingdom, very few global officials have seemed willing to criticize the president or his policies so openly.

When asked if Great Britain should prolong such a friendship to Trump, Khan said: “If you have a best friend, you should expect more from them – it’s very different from a knowledge or a person who is a distant friend.”

Although he said that the United Kingdom and the United States have significant economic and military ties, Khan said that such a relationship should mean that a party has the necessary confidence to call the other. “I think President Trump is wrong in many ways,” he said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments from NBC News.

Khan, who represents the British Labor Party and is characterized as on the wing of the Party and Social Center, won a third third term in 2024.

The prevalence of sharia in the United Kingdom is in many right-wing conspiracy theories on the role of Muslims in the country, has often been associated with the same affirmation of false parts that certain parts of large cities are “zones without Go” for non-Muslims.

In reality, there are sharia advice, which base decisions on traditional Muslim beliefs and religious texts, but they have no legal skills – as a review of the government found in 2018.

The anger persists for the president’s comments on London: Rosena Allin-Khan, the labor legislator who now represents the former district of Khan in southern London, called on the American ambassador to the United Kingdom to be summoned on the remarks.