{"id":2519308,"date":"2025-12-09T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sadiq-khan-responds-to-trump-dig-that-hes-a-disaster\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:47:11","slug":"sadiq-khan-responds-to-trump-dig-that-hes-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sadiq-khan-responds-to-trump-dig-that-hes-a-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan responds to Trump dig that he&#8217;s a &#8216;disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsadiq-khan-responds-to-trump-dig-that-hes-a-disaster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2519308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>London Mayor Sadiq Khan responded to harsh criticism from former President Donald Trump, who labeled him a &#8220;disaster&#8221; and a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-andy-cohen-slams-horrible-mayor-de-blasio-in-new-years-rant-sayonara-sucker\/\" title=\"Watch -- Andy Cohen Slams &#039;... ...&#039; de Blasio in New Year&#039;s Rant: &#039;Sayonara, Sucker!&#039;\">horrible mayor<\/a>&#8221; during a recent interview. Trump reiterated his previous attacks on Khan, blaming him for London&#8217;s problems and expressing disappointment in the city&#8217;s current state. In response, Khan highlighted London&#8217;s numerous global accolades, including being named the best city in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >top travel destination<\/a>, world capital of music, and most prosperous city, countering Trump&#8217;s negative remarks. khan, who recently won a historic third term as London mayor, has been a vocal opponent of Trump&#8217;s policies, especially the travel bans targeting Muslim-majority countries. This renewed exchange comes as Trump plans to introduce a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-to-know-about-the-latest-trump-travel-ban-affecting-19-countries\/\" title=\"What to know about the latest Trump ... affecting 19 countries\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ... Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">travel ban<\/a> affecting<\/a> up to 30 countries.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Sadiq Khan responds to Trump dig that he&rsquo;s a &lsquo;disaster&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2439456\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>London Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/2991742\/london-mayor-wins-third-term\/\">Sadiq Khan<\/a> responded to criticism from President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> by pointing to the Square Mile&rsquo;s strong global rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Trump issued a new litany of critiques at Khan during a 45-minute conversation with <em>Politico&rsquo;s<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVV1tbNZf_A\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, reiterating the attacks he first leveled against the London mayor in his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-nations\/\">United Nations<\/a> speech in September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3911833\/ukraine-zelensky-trying-keep-us-peace-plan-alive\/\">Zelensky trying to keep US peace plan alive as Trump lambastes Ukraine and Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3901383\/future-hamas-israel-gaza-ceasefire-second-phase\/\">Future of Hamas hazy after devastating war and unstable peace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3911510\/honduras-international-arrest-warrant-hernandez\/\">Honduran attorney general issues international arrest warrant for Trump-pardoned former president<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;If you take a look at London, you have a mayor named Khan. He&rsquo;s a horrible mayor. He&rsquo;s an incompetent mayor, but he&rsquo;s a horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s done a terrible job. London&rsquo;s a different place. I love London. I love London. And I hate to see it happen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The mayor of London &mdash; he&rsquo;s a disaster. He&rsquo;s a disaster. He&rsquo;s got a totally different ideology of what he&rsquo;s supposed to have,&rdquo; Trump added. &ldquo;I hate what&rsquo;s happened to London.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Khan appeared to lump Trump in with his &ldquo;haters&rdquo; in an X post that did not explicitly mention the president. Instead, he highlighted a string of accolades for London. In the post, London is listed as the best city in the world, the top travel destination in the world, the world capital of music, No. 1 in nightlife for Europe, and the most prosperous city, among other accolades, citing sources such as Ipsos and TripAdvisor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Once more for the haters&hellip; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LfYyc8dVb\">pic.twitter.com\/6LfYyc8dVb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorofLondon\/status\/1998445580268237068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The last time Trump bad-mouthed Khan, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3821778\/sadiq-khan-trump-un-comments-london\/\">Khan retorted by accusing Trump<\/a> of being &ldquo;racist,&rdquo; &ldquo;sexist,&rdquo; &ldquo;misogynistic,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Islamophobic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8203;&#8203;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3911707\/trump-watched-venezuela-boat-strike-video-floats-further-action\/\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS HE HAS WATCHED VENEZUELA BOAT STRIKE VIDEO, FLOATS FURTHER ACTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khan is the first mayor of London to win three terms, being reelected last year. Ever since Trump&rsquo;s first term, Khan has publicly opposed Trump&rsquo;s policies, notably the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1577479\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-is-a-poster-boy-for-racists-around-the-world\/\">president&rsquo;s travel ban<\/a> during his first term, which largely affected Muslim countries. This renewed spat comes as Trump is gearing up to enact a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3908202\/noem-full-travel-ban-over-30-countries\/\">new travel ban<\/a> against as many as 30 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> has reached out to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan rebuffs Trump&#8217;s &#8216;disaster&#8217; claim, cites London&#8217;s top ranks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2519310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/khan-trump-e1765310420145.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60118,36160,36830,68517,3634],"class_list":["post-2519308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-london-mayor","tag-political-controversy","tag-political-response","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/khan-trump-e1765310420145.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519312,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519308\/revisions\/2519312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}