Donald Trump launches vile racist rant attacking Sadiq Khan and lying about 'no-go areas'

Donald Trump launches vile racist rant attacking Sadiq Khan and lying about 'no-go areas' Trump claimed there are areas of London where police are afraid to go, because a "different culture" had entered, and that Sadiq Khan was only kept in power by the votes of immigrants Donald Trump launched a vile, racist rant attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan and lying about "no go" areas in the UK capital. Trump trotted out the string of falsehoods in an 'interview' with GB News' Bev Turner. And he said Sir Sadiq was "not somebody that should be representing London and the UK, but he stays there because I guess he has enough votes in the people that are coming in that nobody's going to vote him out". Trump claimed that 20 years ago, "you didn't have crime in London. London was a very safe place, and now you have a different culture that has entered, you know, entered London. Same thing with Paris. I mean, it's a different culture, different people." He went on: "I mean, if you go through London, London's a much different place. You have a terrible mayor. He's a nasty guy, nasty person. He's a very bad mayor. You have crime that's very high, and London's a very much different place than if you took somebody from 15 or 20 years ago and brought them through London, they wouldn't know what happened. Such a different place." Ms Turner noted hospitalisations have gone down in the last five years - and that Sir Sadiq was incredibly popular, being re-elected three times. But she went on to claim, without evidence, that some areas of London are a "monoculture". Trump responded: "You have areas in Paris and London where the police don't want to even go in them, there's no law and order. They're afraid to go in them. E they're afraid or they just don't, you know? They don't want to lose their life. But they run their own, and then you have Sharia courts, and you have lots of other things taking place, and you have a mayor who's absolutely terrible." There are no Sharia courts in London. Sharia councils exist, to provide advice on religious matters or offer voluntary adjudication on Muslim marriages - but they have absolutely no power in British law. Similarly, Ecclesiastical Courts in the Church of England and Canon Law Tribunals in the Catholic Church both operate in the UK, offering similar voluntary arbitration on religious and marital matters. Trump went on: "I mean, he's absolutely a terrible representative for the UK. This is not somebody that should be representing London and the UK, but he stays there because I guess he has enough votes in the people that are coming in that nobody's going to vote him out. You know, democracy." Only British citizens, EU citizens and members of the Commonwealth can vote in London Mayoral elections. Trump and Sir Sadiq have been at loggerheads since at least 2015, when Sir Sadiq criticised Trump's suggestion that Muslims should be banned from travelling to the US. The London Mayor later branded the US President's view on Islam as "ignorant". In 2017 Trump sparked a backlash by misrepresenting his comments about the London Bridge terror attack. The same year Sir Sadiq called for a state visit by the US President to be cancelled, and his office gave permission for a giant blimp depicting Trump as an angry baby to be flown in protests. Following another spat in 2019, the US President wrote on X: "He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me." Last year Trump launched another attack, describing the London Mayor as "a horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor". In April Sir Sadiq criticised the US commander-in-chief's foul-mouthed threats toward Iran, saying: “I think it's, frankly, gratuitously offensive for the leader of the free world to talk about a civilisation in this way."