LONDON: Donald Trump’s win reveals the necessity to construct a world the place “racism and hatred is rejected”, London Mayor Sadiq Khan mentioned.
The mayor and the US president-elect have had a long-running feud courting again to earlier than Trump’s first time period within the White Home.
After Trump claimed victory over Kamala Harris, Khan mentioned he understands “many Londoners will probably be anxious” and “fearful about what it’ll imply for democracy and for girls’s rights”.
He mentioned they might even have considerations about what a Trump victory means for “the state of affairs within the Center East or the destiny of Ukraine”, whereas “others will probably be fearful about the way forward for Nato or tackling the local weather disaster”.
Khan mentioned: “London is – and can all the time be – for everybody. We are going to all the time be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.
“London is a spot the place we’re happy with our variety, happy with the contribution of all our communities and happy with our spirit of unity. These are among the values that may proceed to bind us collectively as Londoners.
“The lesson of at this time is that progress just isn’t inevitable.
“However asserting our progressive values is extra essential than ever – re-committing to constructing a world the place racism and hatred is rejected, the basic rights of ladies and women are upheld, and the place we proceed to sort out the disaster of local weather change head-on.”
Khan’s spat with Trump dates again to at the least 2015, when the Labour politician condemned the then presidential hopeful’s suggestion that Muslims needs to be banned from travelling to the US.
After Khan’s election in 2016, the mayor described Trump’s views on Islam as “ignorant”, prompting the US tycoon to problem him to an IQ check.
The spat intensified following the 2017 London Bridge terror assault when Trump mentioned: “Not less than seven useless and 48 wounded in terror assault and Mayor of London says there may be ‘no motive to be alarmed!’.”
Khan had truly mentioned the general public shouldn’t be alarmed by an elevated police presence within the wake of the atrocity.
A mayor’s spokesperson mentioned Khan had “extra essential issues to do than reply to Donald Trump’s ill-informed tweet”.
However Trump claimed the mayor’s clarification of the remark was a “pathetic excuse”.
In 2018, Khan’s workplace gave permission for an inflatable depicting Trump as a child to fly in Parliament Sq. because the US president visited the UK.
On the eve of his go to, the president informed The Solar, Khan had “completed a really unhealthy job on terrorism”.
In June 2019, throughout Trump’s official state go to to the UK, the president reignited the row earlier than even setting foot on British soil.
Moments earlier than he stepped off the aircraft, the president tweeted that Khan “has completed a horrible job as Mayor of London” and was “a stone chilly loser who ought to deal with crime in London, not me”.
Khan responded: “I am not 12 years previous in a playground, I am simply shocked Donald Trump thinks he’s.”
Later that month, Trump mentioned Khan was “a catastrophe” and a “nationwide shame” after a spate of violence in London, the place three males had been killed in separate assaults in lower than 24 hours.