The mayor has defended the planned protests for a number of months despite criticism from UKIP London Assembly member David Kurten who said he “singled out” the US President.
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Trump told the Sun newspaper that the London mayor had “done a very bad job on terrorism” and referred to “crime that is being brought in” to the city.
London’s first Muslim mayor says Friday that many major cities, including Paris, Brussels and Berlin, have suffered terrorism attacks but that Trump has chosen to only criticize him.
Mr Trump, who will also spend time with the Queen during his two-day working visit, added: “I think they agree with me on immigration”.
A historic meeting took place on Friday. Look at what is going on in London, ‘ Trump said.
“He might not like the current president, but I represent the United States”. “I would have done it much differently, ‘ Trump said”.
The first lady caused a stir last month when she wore a jacket with “I really done care, do u?” scrawled on the back on a trip to the U.S. -Mexico border to meet children affected by her husband’s policy against illegal immigration. Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, who emigrated to the U.S.in 1930, died in 2000.
Trump, whose policies – including a travel ban on a number of predominantly Muslim countries, the detention of child migrants on the US-Mexico border and the imposition of tariffs on European Union steel and aluminium exports – have all been criticised by the UK.
Mr Trump travelled to the United Kingdom from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, where he said member countries have agreed to increase their military spending. I think that Sadiq and the rest of your listeners know exactly what it is that he’s saying. Trump is making his first trip to Britain as president after a tense summit with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation leaders in Brussels and on the heels of ruptures in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government because of the crisis over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“My wife is a tremendous fan of hers”, the president said in his interview with the British tabloid “The Sun”. Before meeting the queen, he called her an “incredible woman” and said he was excited to meet with her.
Mr Trump and his wife Melania landed at Stansted on Air Force One at 1.50pm local time before a helicopter took them to the U.S. ambassador’s residence in London.
“As he said in his interview with the Sun she “is a very good person” and he ‘never said anything bad about her, ‘” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
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She added: “Central London will be very busy and congested (on Friday) based on figures the organisers have shared with us, there will be a lot of people coming to protest, which is their right and this principle remains at the heart of our policing operation”.
