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Sadiq Khan compares Donald Trump to a fascist in furious attack on US President


Sadiq Khan today compared Donald Trump to a “20th Century fascist” in a furious new attack on the US President.

London’s mayor ramped up his long-running war of attrition as he condemned the UK government for rolling out the red carpet with a State Visit.

Mr Trump – who has frequently clashed with the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital – will arrive tomorrow for a three-day trip to the UK.

But Labour’s Mr Khan said the President was guilty of “defending white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites” in Charlottesville and “amplifying messages from racists in this country”.

He wrote in The Observer: “President Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat.

“The far right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than 70 years.

 

Sadiq Khan launched a salvo in his three-year war of attrition with the President

“Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage here in the UK are using the same divisive tropes of the fascists of the 20th century to garner support, but with new sinister methods to deliver their message.

“And they are gaining ground and winning power and influence in places that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.”

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Khan said Britain should not be “rolling out the red carpet” for Donald Trump next week.

He said Britain’s relationship with its closest allies was like that of a best friend.

“Like a best friend you need to call them out when you think they’re wrong and there are so many things about Donald Trump’s presidency that are the antithesis of our values in London and as a country.”

He criticised the US president for rolling back women’s reproductive rights, his treatment of migrants on the US border and his decision to walk away from the Paris climate accord.

“My frustration with the Prime Minister is she’s not going to say boo to a goose,” he said.

 

Donald Trump will pay a three-day State Visit to the UK starting tomorrow

The US President’s feud with Khan has raged since before he won office in 2016.

Mr Khan warned the President’s “ignorant” views on religion would make the world less safe.

The mayor said in 2016: “I invite Donald Trump to come to London. Meet my wife and my daughters. Meet my friends and my neighbours.

“Meet Londoners who are British, they’re Londoners, they’re Muslim.”

The billionaire Republican hit back by saying: “He doesn’t know me, hasn’t met me, doesn’t know what I’m on about.

“I think they’re very rude statements and frankly tell him I will remember those statements. They’re very nasty statements.

“I think it’s ignorant for him to say that.”

They later clashed in 2017 after the President scored political points from the London Bridge terror attack.

Trump claimed the attack justified his travel ban on several Muslim-majority nations, despite the three terrorists’ nationalities not yet being known.

 

They clashed in 2017 after the President scored political points from the London Bridge terror attack

And he accused Mr Khan of saying the massacre gave “no reason to be alarmed”, which twisted his words and stripped their context.

Later, after Trump promoted far-right group Britain First – whose leader turned his back on Mr Khan when he won the mayoralty – the mayor demanded the President apologise to the British people.

And the President was branded “racist” by Labour MP David Lammy after singling out Mr Khan’s handling of terror attacks in London.

Trump said: “Take a look at the terrorism that is taking place. Look at what is going on in London. I think he has done a very bad job on terrorism.

“I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in.”

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