Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump is ‘obsessed’ after US President brands him ‘horrible’

Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump is 'obsessed' with him after US President brands him 'disgusting'Source PA

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00:00What's your message to him?

00:03I don't really want to get involved in sort of, you know, returning messages to President Trump.

00:08You've been doing it for 10 years, Mr. Mayor.

00:09Well, I feel like I'm nine years old again.

00:12I mean, I'm slightly curious and concerned why the sort of leader of the free world,

00:19who's got so many challenges in the Middle East, in Ukraine,

00:24issues around the climate emergency, issues around trade,

00:28is spending time talking about me and giving the impression he's obsessed with me.

00:33It's for him to explain why.

00:34Do you think he is obsessed with you?

00:35Well, look at the evidence.

00:38I mean, every opportunity the president gets when there's a microphone placed in front of him,

00:42he appears to be obsessing about me, and I'm unclear why.

00:46My concern about when President Trump says some of the things he does is he normalizes

00:51and brings to the mainstream views that I think are unacceptable.

00:54I'm always willing to debate and have a discourse with anybody about almost any issue.

01:00But there is a direct link between language and how sometimes people can become radicalized,

01:06you couldn't call it groomed, and so forth.

01:09And we've seen in the UK a massive increase in anti-Muslim hatred,

01:15a massive increase, by the way, also in...

01:16So he's radicalizing people in Britain.

01:18You know, intentionally or unintentionally, you are seeing people

01:21who are taking the views of the president of the United States

01:25as a green light to pave in a certain way.

01:29We've been talking about racism and the return of a sort of normalization of racism.

01:34I just wonder, you'll have followed what's going on with Nigel Farage

01:37and the accusations have been made against him by some of his schoolmates from Dulwich College.