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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.
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