London mayor accuses Donald Trump of attacking him because of his “skin color”

“If I wasn’t this color of skin, if I wasn’t a practicing Muslim, he wouldn’t have come after me,” assured Sadiq Khan in a podcast.

The Labor mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, accused US President-elect Donald Trump of attacking him during his first term (2017-2021) because of his “skin color” and his Muslim religion. Speaking in a podcast released this week, but recorded before the November 5 US election, Sadiq Khan added that he “had spoken out against someone whose policies were sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic and racist”.

The relationship between the two men has always been marked by tensions. In 2019, the American president said that Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital, was “a very bad job on terrorism” and accused him of “loser total”. For his part, the Labor councilor, son of Pakistani immigrants, had accused Donald Trump of “hard right populism”before giving his approval to the presence of a huge inflatable baby bearing the likeness of the American president in a demonstration in London in June 2019.

In the “High Performance” podcast, he returned to the attacks he had suffered from Donald Trump. “If I wasn’t this color of skin, if I wasn’t a practicing Muslim, he wouldn’t have attacked me”he declared. “This affects me and my family. But what concerns me is not me and my family. What worries me is that he is the leader of the free world.” he continued.