Shortly after being elected, Khan, the first Muslim to be elected mayor of London, told Time magazine that he wanted to travel to the United States sooner rather than later, lest he risk not being allowed in under a Trump presidency, and its promise of a blanket ban on Muslims entering the country.
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“He’s been quite critical of you as you know”.
Earlier in the year, Cameron had said that Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US was “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply, wrong”.
Trump said: “He doesn’t know me, hasn’t met me, doesn’t know what I’m all about”.
“I’m not at war. They’re very rude statements, and frankly, tell him, I will remember those statements”.
In December, a week after the San Bernardino shooting in which 14 people were killed, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.
Trump said that, if he gets elected, he will not have a good relationship with David Cameron.
“When he won I wished him well – now, I don’t care about him”, Trump told Good Morning Britain.
“Would you like him to withdraw the particular comments that you’re stupid, divisive and wrong with your view about those things?” “I’m a unifier, unlike our president right now”. Trump has been critical of Khan and how he plans to deal with Islamic extremism in the United Kingdom capital.
The US presidential contender said he would not forgive Mr Khan for calling him “ignorant” – and challenged the Mayor to take part in an IQ test, an offer mocked by Mr Khan’s team.
But Trump – appearing on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” with host and his former “Celebrity Apprentice” victor Piers Morgan – fired back, saying Khan had no basis for criticizing him. “They are very nasty statements”. Khan answered to Trump’s request saying that ignorance does not mean lack of intelligence.
Khan, meanwhile, said he’s planning to meet with American politicians in January – right before the possibility of a President Trump inauguration.
The pro-Brexit Trump used the interview to reject US President Barack Obama’s view that if Britain were to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum, it would be “at the back of the queue”.
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“If one is proposed we will consider it”, he said.
