Skip to main content

London mayor was very rude about me, says Trump

The presumptive Republican
presidential nominee, Donald Trump,
said yesterday that London’s new
Mayor, Sadiq Khan, made “very rude
statements” about him – and Trump
warned that he will not have a good
relationship with British Prime Minister,
David Cameron, if he’s elected.
Trump made the comments in an
interview with ITV’s “Good Morning
Britain” host Piers Morgan, when asked
to respond to criticisms made about
him by British politicians.
Trump’s comments on Islam have
provoked an outcry in the United
Kingdom (UK), and prompted
parliamentarians to debate a proposal
to ban him from the country for hate
speech after a petition to do so
attracted more than 500,000 signatures.
In December, Cameron labeled the
presidential hopeful’s suggestion of a
temporary ban on Muslims traveling to
the United States (U.S.) as “divisive,
stupid and wrong.”
Asked about Cameron’s remarks,
Trump said he didn’t care, but then
added, “It looks like we’re not going to
have a very good relationship. Who
knows, I hope to have a good
relationship with him but it sounds like
he’s not willing to address the problem
either.”
He continued: “Number one, I’m not
stupid, okay? I can tell you that right
now. Just the opposite. Number two, in
terms of divisive, I don’t think I’m a
divisive person, I’m a unifier, unlike
our president now, I’m a unifier.”
A spokeswoman for Cameron said he
had made his views on Trump’s
“Muslim ban” proposal clear and had
“nothing further to add.”
The prime minister would “work with
whoever is the president of the United
States and he is committed to
maintaining the special relationship,”
the spokeswoman said.
Trump also had words for Khan, who
became the first Muslim to hold the
office of mayor of London when he was
elected earlier this month. Shortly after
taking office, Khan criticized Trump’s
views of Islam as ignorant – remarks
that Trump said had offended him. The
new mayor had been responding to a
suggestion from Trump that he would
make an “exception” to his proposed
“temporary Muslim ban” for Khan.
“Let’s take an I.Q. test,” Trump said
yesterday, adding that Khan had never
met him and “doesn’t know what I’m
all about.”
“I think they’re very rude statements
and frankly, tell him, I will remember
those statements. They’re very nasty
statements.”

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

16-year-old pupil impregnated by vice principal gives birth

A 16-year-old pupil of the Government Secondary School, Tunga, Niger State, Faith Galadima, who was impregnated by the school’s vice principal, Mohammed Mohammed, has given birth to a baby boy. The teenager was delivered of the baby at Injita village, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. The VP had allegedly slept with the pupil sometime in March this year, putting her in the family way. Mohammed was arraigned in court on April 4, 2017 and is standing trial on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, and impregnating a female pupil. The accused was remanded in the prison custody for three months after he pleaded not guilty to the charges. The presiding magistrate, Fatima Auna, had granted the VP bail in the sum of N1m, which she said was in line with sections 35 and 36 of the 1999 constitution, and sections 341 and 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The victim, who narrated her ordeal to journalists on Tuesday, said that she gave birth to the bab...
Post a Comment
Read more

2018: Buhari bans recruitment by MDAs, presents N8.612tn budget

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday banned fresh recruitment by all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, except by presidential approval. He said this was to manage a rising personnel expenditure that was expected to increase to 12 per cent in 2018. He disclosed that overhead cost would also rise by N26bn in 2018 or 12 per cent increase. Buhari spoke when he presented the estimates of the 2018 budget to a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives in Abuja. The President laid a budget size of N8.612tn before the legislature for 2018, an increase of N1.7tn from the N7.44tn appropriated in 2017. Buhari, who wore sky-blue Hausa native attire and a matching cap, addressed lawmakers for 1hour and13minutes amid applause and intermittent murmurs by senators and members of the House. The President said he had released up to N450bn out of the N2.2tn budgeted for 2017 capital projects as of the end of October. He promised to raise the im...
Post a Comment
Read more

Herdsmen demand head, body parts of slain colleague

Fulani herdsmen under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria on Tuesday demanded the head and other body parts of one of their colleagues who was killed during a clash with farmers in Ugala, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The slain herdsman, identified simply as Buba, was said to have been beheaded, during a fight between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the community on Sunday. Several other persons sustained injuries in the fracas. The Vice Chairman of the MACBAN, Alhaji Abdurrahman Abdul, who led a delegation of herdsmen on a visit to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone Six, Calabar, Mr. Abubakar Marafa, said three other members of the association had been declared missing since the incident happened. He told Southern City News that Buba was on his way to rescue one of his shepherds who was allegedly attacked by farmers when the  incident occurred, adding that the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben ...
Post a Comment
Read more