Mr Khan and Mr Trump have been at odds since 2015, after they have been each operating for workplace. Following the 2017 London terrorist assaults, it change into extra intense and is but to chill down.
Here is a rundown of their relationship.
December 2015 – ‘I hope Trump loses – badly’
After polling revealed Muslims have “hatred” in opposition to Individuals that would endanger the nation, the president-elect declared {that a} border closure needs to be applied.
In an announcement to reporters on the time, Mr Trump stated: “With out trying on the numerous polling information, it’s apparent to anyone the hatred is past comprehension.
“The place this hatred comes from and why, we should decide.
“Till we’re capable of decide and perceive this drawback and the harmful risk it poses, our nation can’t be the victims of horrendous assaults by folks that imagine solely in Jihad, and don’t have any sense of motive or respect for human life.”
Unimpressed with these phrases, Mr Khan expressed his want that Mr Trump “loses badly” to the BBC.
Might 2016 – Donald Trump makes exception for Sadiq Khan
Mr Trump indicated that Mr Khan wouldn’t be topic to his deliberate journey restriction on Muslims after he was elected mayor of London.
“There’ll all the time be exceptions,” Mr Trump stated, including that Mr Khan’s election was a “good factor”.
Mr Khan discovered Mr Trump’s opinions on Muslims to be “ignorant”.
Mr Trump, who did not take pleasure in this alternate, challenged Mr Khan to take an IQ check. He said on Good Morning Britain: “I’ll keep in mind these statements. They’re very nasty statements.”
July 2017 – Sadiq Khan calls on the federal government to cancel Donald Trump’s state go to
Mr Khan demanded that the federal government name off Mr Trump’s state go to to the UK.
He informed The Guardian, “I don’t suppose we must always roll out the purple carpet to the president of the USA within the circumstances the place his insurance policies go in opposition to all the pieces we stand for.”
The go to did ultimately occur and, in response, Mr Khan’s workplace gave permission for anti-Trump activists to fly the notorious protest blimp of Mr Trump in a nappy.
The protest blimp of Donald Trump in a nappy
Yui Mok / PA
This fuelled additional anger and the rivalry deepened between the pair.
Over the following couple of years, Mr Trump known as out Mr Khan a number of instances, from evaluating him to New York mayor Bill de Blasio to saying that London wanted a brand new mayor.
Might 2022 – Mr Khan blames Mr Trump for sharp rise in racist abuse
Since being elected mayor of London, Mr Khan had acquired at the very least 233,000 “explicitly racist or radicalised social media messages”, he informed Stanford University college students in California.
“Throughout these 4 years he was president, that led to me having to obtain police safety and a variety of racial abuse,” Mr Khan informed the viewers.
”Within the final 12 months of him being president, as soon as he was banned from Twitter, I acquired the least racial abuse of any time over 5 years.
“On the one hand, social media – Fb, Twitter – nice. Then again, that is the consequence of lack of management and lack of regulation.”
November 2024 – Feud reignited
After two years of silence from the pair, Mr Khan renewed his dispute with Mr Trump in November.
Just a few minutes after defeating Kamala Harris within the US election, Mr Khan refused to hitch different worldwide leaders in applauding Mr Trump.
Quite, the Labour MP wrote forth his causes for believing that Londoners maintain values which are in opposition to Mr Trump’s concepts.
In a flip of occasions, later within the month throughout Mayor’s Questions, Mr Khan invited the president-elect to have a good time at Pride festival in London with him and inspired him to hitch him for Friday prayers at a mosque.
He added: “I believe it’s actually vital to share the thrill of the best metropolis on this planet with the president-elect and I look ahead to doing simply that when he involves the UK.”
It isn’t identified if Mr Trump has accepted his invitation.
