Donald Trump has claimed he blocked Sir Sadiq Khan from attending any of the events for his state visit.
The MAGA leader told reporters onboard Air Force One during his flight back to the US that he didn’t want the London Mayor there.
Trump said Sir Sadiq ‘wanted to be there’ but ‘I didn’t want him’ in a scathing attack in which he dubbed him one of the worst mayors in the world.
The American leader, 79, said: ‘I think the mayor of London Khan is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones.
‘He wanted to be there. As I understand it, I didn’t want it. I’ve not liked him for a long time.’
Trump said he thought Sir Sadiq had done a ‘terrible job’ and that crime in the capital was ‘through the roof’.
‘I just think, you know, I have a certain pride in London and the UK. My mother was born in Scotland, and when I see Mayor Khan do a bad job – the stabbings, the dirt and the filth – it’s not the same. I didn’t want him there.’
Donald Trump has claimed he blocked Sir Sadiq Khan from attending any of the events for his state visit
The London Mayor (pictured in July 2025 speaking with Met Police officers) had continued his bitter feud with Trump before his arrival for a historic state visit in a fresh attack
Keir Starmer said the leaders ‘genuinely like each other’ as they oversaw a business reception at Chequers
The Daily Mail has contacted Sir Sadiq’s office for comment.
Sir Sadiq had continued his bitter feud with Trump before his arrival for a historic state visit in a fresh attack in which he said the Republican had fanned the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world.
Writing in The Guardian, the Labour mayor said: ‘Scapegoating minorities, deploying the military to the streets of diverse cities. These actions aren’t just inconsistent with western values – they’re straight out of the autocrat’s playbook.’
During his visit to Scotland in July, Mr Trump branded the London mayor a ‘nasty person’ who has ‘done a terrible job’ in his latest blast at the Labour politician.
Speaking at an event at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sir Sadiq dismissed the US President’s jibes as ‘water off a duck’s back’.
The London mayor added he sometimes felt like he was ‘nine years old again’ and ‘in the school playground’.
He told the Political Party show with comedian Matt Forde: ‘Somebody who has views like he does about black people, about women, about gays, about Muslims, about Mexicans, thinks I’m nasty.
‘Really. He is the leader of the free world, arguably the most powerful man in the world, and really.’
The King saw Mr Trump off from Windsor, before he travelled by helicopter to Chequers
Trump and his wife Melania at Stansted Airport yesterday, as they departed following their two-day visit
Sir Keir and Lady Victoria Starmer greeted Trump at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president’s second state visit
There has been a long-running feud between Sir Sadiq and Mr Trump, who previously called the London mayor a ‘stone cold loser’ in 2019.
This came after Sir Sadiq allowed a giant inflatable ‘Trump baby’ blimp to coincide with the US President’s state visit that year.
In 2016, Mr Trump challenged Sir Sadiq to an IQ test after he said the president’s views on Islam were ‘ignorant’.