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London Mayor Sadiq Khan responded to the US President’s Twitter tirade against him – launched after Saturday’s London attacks – saying Trump should not be welcome to visit UK given “the circumstances, where his policies go against everything we stand for”.
In an interview with Channel 4 News on Monday, Khan was asked about Trump’s seeming conflict with him, to which he said:
Khan also went on to outline what constitutes “a special relationship” between allies.
The US President ignited the controversy with a jibe against Khan on Twitter stemming from the misinterpretation of the latter’s statement regarding the London attacks.
Trump did not stop there, posting another stinging tweet a day later in response to the clarification by the Mayor’s office (which said that the Trump had misquoted Khan):
This is what Khan’s statement concerning the London attacks, in which seven people were killed, said:
(With inputs from Reuters)
(Source: The Guardian)
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