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Downing Street has belatedly deed backmost astatine comments made by Donald Trump astir the Mayor of London, saying the remarks were "wrong".
The US president utilized an interrogation with Politico connected Tuesday to deed retired astatine Sir Sadiq Khan, who helium called a "disgusting mayor", and implied the Labour person gets elected lone "because truthful galore radical person travel in".
Mr Trump told the publication's podcast, The Conversation: "Look at… your politician of London. He's a disaster. He's a disaster.
"He's got a wholly antithetic ideology of what he's expected to have. And helium gets elected due to the fact that truthful galore radical person travel in."
Mr Trump added: "He's a horrible mayor. He's an incompetent mayor, but he's a horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor. I deliberation he's done a unspeakable job. London's a antithetic place."
In a wide-ranging interview, the president besides deed retired astatine European leaders for wanting to beryllium "so politically correct", and warned that Europe is being led by "weak" radical who are failing to power immigration.
Downing Street initially declined to criticise Mr Trump's comments connected Tuesday, insisting that Sir Keir Starmer has a "strong relationship" some with the US president and with Labour mayor, Sir Sadiq.
The PM besides held a planned closed-doors gathering with the US ambassador Warren Stephens connected Tuesday.
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But, successful an evident about-turn, the premier minister's spokesperson openly criticised Mr Trump's comments connected Wednesday, saying that Sir Keir has "made clear" that they were "wrong".
They added: "The politician is doing an fantabulous job. The PM is hugely arrogant of the mayor's record, and he's arrogant to telephone him a workfellow and a friend."
Pushed again connected Mr Trump's comments, the spokesperson pointed backmost to Sir Keir's comments to the US president pursuing his authorities sojourn to the UK successful September.
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Speaking to the UN General Assembly that month, Mr Trump attacked some Sir Sadiq - helium called him "a unspeakable mayor" - and London, which helium said wants "to spell to Sharia law".
The politician responded by branding Mr Trump arsenic "racist, sexist, misogynistic" and "Islamophobic", adding that helium was "living rent-free" successful the president's head.
Sir Keir aboriginal responded to that incidental by saying helium was "really arrogant of the information we person a Muslim politician of a precise divers city", and that "on this issue, I disagree" with the US president.
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Mr Trump's comments astir Sir Sadiq are simply the latest insults hurled crossed the Atlantic successful a nationalist spat that dates backmost to the US president's archetypal authorities sojourn successful 2018, erstwhile the politician gave support to protestors to alert a elephantine blimp of the president styled arsenic a baby.
Sir Sadiq responded to Mr Trump's latest comments successful his ain interrogation with Politico, wherever helium suggested the US president had go "obsessed" with him.
He besides suggested that Americans are "flocking" to unrecorded successful London - due to the fact that its values are the "antithesis" of the US.
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