Donald Trump blasts London Mayor Sadiq Khan as ‘terrible’, a ‘disaster’ and ‘a nasty person’ as he claims there are parts of the capital where ‘the police won’t go’ and Sharia law holds sway

US President Donald Trump called Sadiq Khan a ‘horrible mayor’ and a ‘disgusting person’ in a bombshell interview last night.

To talk Great Britain NewsPresident Trump claimed that there were some areas of London that the police did not even want to approach and that “Sharia Law” applied instead.

‘I can say that your mayor is a disaster. If you put him there I wouldn’t even know who he was. “He is a disaster, a bad person, and allows crime to escalate,” Trump said in his unfiltered attack on the mayor of London.

His comments came after the broadcaster confirmed this week that it would be suing the BBC for ‘between one and five billion’ damages over the ‘misleading’ editing of a Capitol Hill speech broadcast on Newsnight, despite the broadcaster apologizing to the President.

Trump criticized the London borough and slammed the current mayor, telling GB News’ Bev Turner: ‘He’s a terrible mayor. Look at the crime you committed in London.

‘My mother loved London, she loved that city, but it was a different London than today.

‘There are people getting stabbed in the ass or worse today.’

He added that ‘it’s crazy what has gone on in Europe’, saying: ‘You have areas in London, and you have this in Paris too, where the police don’t even want to go anywhere near.

This is not the first exchange of harsh words between Sadiq Khan and Donald Trump – earlier this month Mr Khan celebrated Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s victory as mayor of New York by hailing it as proof that the President’s ‘toxic politics’ ‘don’t work’.

‘You have Sharia law that doesn’t even want to comply with the laws of your country, and you have much worse conditions.’

Trump’s comments about Sadiq Khan last night were the latest in a long-running debate between politicians.

This month, Mr. Khan touted the victory of Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist and Democrat, as mayor of New York and the fierce Trump critic.

Mr Khan told Time magazine said Mr Mamdani’s victory showed that Mr Trump’s ‘toxic politics’ were ‘not working’.

In September the US President branded Mr Khan a ‘terrible, terrible mayor’ and claimed he wanted to introduce sharia law in London.

In a wide-ranging speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr Trump said the capital had ‘changed a lot’.

‘Now they want to switch to sharia. But you are in a different country, you cannot do this,’ he added.

Sir Sadiq’s spokesman responded at the time: ‘We will not dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.

Trump also told reporters on Friday he would sue the BBC for ‘between $1 and $5 billion’ (photo taken on Air Force One last night)

‘London is the world’s greatest city, safer than major US cities, and we are delighted that record numbers of US citizens are moving here.’

Last night Trump appeared to pick up the fight by saying Mr. Khan had treated me very, very badly. [Khan] ‘Who is this man’ he said?’

‘I’m going to do this interview, it’s not controversial because honestly it’s just a fact; “It shouldn’t be controversial,” he added.

Donald Trump also said in his heated interview last night that he would sue the BBC for editing a speech he gave in 2021 on the day his supporters invaded the Capitol.

The BBC sent a personal apology to the US President on Thursday but said it had no legal basis to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary its lawyers described as defamatory.

Trump said he had an ‘obligation’ to take legal action after the BBC rejected the US President’s demand for surrender.

Trump also confirmed to reporters outside the White House on Friday that he planned to formally seek damages, saying: ‘We’ll probably sue them for $1 billion to $5 billion next week.’