TURNBERRY, Scotland — Donald Trump reignited an outdated feud in Scotland Monday, taking potshots at Mayor of London Sadiq Khan whereas standing beside Keir Starmer.
“I’m not a fan of your mayor,” mentioned the U.S. when requested if he would make a go to to London on his upcoming state go to. “I feel he’s performed a horrible job … a nasty individual. I feel he’s performed a horrible job. However I would definitely go to London, yeah.”
The dig supplied up an ungainly second for Starmer, the British prime minister, who was standing alongside Trump following a bilateral assembly between the 2 leaders in Scotland.
Starmer mentioned of Khan, a Labour Get together colleague who has ceaselessly clashed with Trump through the years: “He’s a pal of mine, really.”
Trump and Khan — a record-breaking three-term mayor and one in all Britain’s most outstanding Muslim politicians — have historical past. Khan mentioned Trump’s second election as U.S. president confirmed that “progress isn’t inevitable” and hit out at “racism and hatred” unleashed by the marketing campaign.
Trump as soon as known as Khan a “stone chilly loser” and “very dumb” — after Khan in contrast Trump to “the fascists of the twentieth century.” In 2018, Khan allowed anti-Trump activists to fly a blimp over parliament exhibiting Trump as a crying child in a diaper throughout his first state go to.
The U.S. president additionally used his journey to heap reward on Nigel Farage, the rebel chief of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK occasion, which is chasing Starmer’s authorities in polls.
“Nigel, as , is a pal of mine,” Trump mentioned.
“I like this man [Keir] rather a lot, and I like Nigel,” the U.S. president added.
“And , I don’t know the politics over right here. I don’t know the place they stand. I’d say one is barely liberal, not that liberal, barely, and the opposite one is barely conservative. However they’re each good males.”
Starmer, a center-left politician, insisted that he and the Republican U.S. president share comparable values, stressing that “we’ve each acquired a terrific love of our nations, of our households, and due to this fact there’s an enormous quantity that we’ve already achieved.”
“It simply reveals that even if you happen to come from totally different political views, totally different backgrounds, really there’s an enormous quantity of frequent floor in relation to what’s in one of the best pursuits of our two nice nations,” he added.
This creating story is being up to date. Noah Keate and Martin Alfonsin Larsen contributed from London.