Trump, when asked about Cameron’s criticism, said such comments indicate he is unlikely to have a good relationship with the British prime minister.
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U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump set off a cross-Atlantic spat on Monday by saying he will make an “exception” for London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan to enter the United States in view of his proposed ban on Muslims.
Khan condemned Goldsmith’s campaign as coming “straight out of the Donald Trump playbook”, and said he would help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat the billionaire businessman.
“I was happy to see that”, Trump said about Khan’s victory.
He said: “I’ve only been in the job for a few days: I’m here to nick your ideas”. “Number two.I don’t think I am a divisive person; I am a unifier, unlike our president now, I’m a unifier”.
“It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship”, Trump told Britain’s ITV television. The answer: “no. The MPs who remember being in government know that and I worry that some people think it is okay to be in opposition but it isn’t”. “I am particularly concerned about the growing threat of extremism and radicalisation in London, and I don’t hesitate to say that I’ll be the British Muslim who attacks the fights to the extremists”.
Trump told GMB he didn’t “care” about Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London and the first Muslim to hold the role.
Asked about Cameron’s view, Trump says: “It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship. They are very nasty statements”, Trump told GMB.
“Londoners deserved better and I hope it’s something the Conservative party will never try to repeat”, he said.
Trump said he was offended by Khan’s denouncement.
Trump set off worldwide outrage last December by proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States in the aftermath of the San Bernardino terrorist attack that claimed 14 lives. “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe”, Khan said at the time.
President Obama said Britain would be at “the back of the queue” for a trade deal with the USA if it voted to leave the European Union, during a visit to London last month.
Rejecting claims he was anti-Muslim, he told interviewer Piers Morgan: “Absolutely not.
I wished him well when I heard he won”.
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The new Mayor of London used his official Twitter account to tweet support for a plan to pit bus users against each other in a race with the clock on public transport.
