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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nSpeaking to the BBC after the vigil, Mr Khan said: “We’ve got to recognise that some people want to divide our communities, some people thrive on fuelling division.<\/p>\n
“That’s not me, that’s not the London I know, and we aren’t going to allow anybody, whether it’s Donald Trump or anybody else to divide our community.”<\/p>\n
His spokesperson earlier said he “has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump’s ill-informed tweet that deliberately takes out of context” the mayor’s remarks.<\/p>\n
Calls to withdraw London invite<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Trump’s attacks on Mr Khan have drawn condemnation from both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n His critics have accused him of being insensitive and twisting the mayor’s words.<\/p>\n Politicians in the UK on Monday called on the prime minister to withdraw the invitation for Mr Trump’s state visit later this year.<\/p>\n The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, said: “This is a man insulting our national values at a time of introspection and mourning.”<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Prime Minister Theresa May refused to criticise Mr Trump, simply saying that Mr Khan was doing a “good job”.<\/p>\n British voters go to the polls on Thursday in a general election.<\/p>\n “Try to imagine the UK prime minister attacking the Mayor of NYC the day after 9\/11,” said European Parliament cabinet member Simon O’Connor.<\/p>\n US mayors back Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was quick to defend Mr Khan, praising him for “doing exactly the right thing”.<\/p>\n “I don’t understand why Donald Trump is trying to undermine a man who’s trying to protect the people of London. It makes no sense,” Mr de Blasio told the BBC’s Nick Bryant during a press conference in New York on Monday. Trump renews feud with mayor of London<\/p>\n The US Conference of Mayors, representing more than 1,400 American cities, backed Mr Khan.<\/p>\n “He has risen above this crisis of death and destruction, as mayors continue to do, to alleviate fear, to bring comfort to his people of London,” the mayors wrote in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n Mr Khan, a Muslim, has previously criticised the president’s plans to temporarily restrict travel to the US from six mainly Muslim countries.<\/p>\n After Mr Trump as a presidential candidate announced his plan, Mr Khan told the BBC he hoped he would “lose badly”, adding that he was a “buffoon”.<\/p>\n He also called Mr Trump’s views on Islam “ignorant”, leading the New York billionaire to challenge him to an IQ test.<\/p>\n In the wake of the London attack, Mr Trump has been tweeting about his stalled travel ban.<\/p>\n Federal courts struck down the first proposal in January. The administration replaced it with a less stringent version order in March, but that also ended up in limbo after legal defeats.<\/p>\n On Monday, the president attacked the Justice Department for revising the original measure, leaving it “watered down” and “politically correct”.<\/p>\n The Trump administration is expected to take the proposal to the Supreme Court next week.<\/p>\n He argues the measure is needed to prevent attacks in the US, but critics say the policy is discriminatory and has little national security justification.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump has again lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan over his assurances to Londoners following Saturday’s terror attack. He accused Mr Khan of offering a “pathetic excuse” for saying there was no reason for people to be alarmed. Mr Khan had in fact said people should not be alarmed by an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[3,970,109,798],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Twitter\"](\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/16279\/production\/_96354709_capkuytk8ture.jpg\")
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