Anti-Muslim crimes in the British capital have increased fivefold since the London Bridge terror attack, Mayor Sadiq Khan said Wednesday, warning that police would take a "zero-tolerance approach".
"Having said that", she added, "I think Donald Trump is wrong in what he said about Sadiq Khan, in relation to the attack on".
In response to the tweet, a spokesman for the mayor said Khan "has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump's ill-informed tweet that deliberately takes out of context" his remarks.
Kahn said the United Kingdom should reconsider rolling "out the red carpet" for Trump "in circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for".
There's no indication Trump's date-to-be-determined state visit - a banquet at Buckingham Palace alongside the queen - will get cancelled; it's not up to the mayor of London to decide.
In response, Trump said in an interview in the U.K.in May of 2016 that Khan was "ignorant".
The row between Mr Trump and Mr Khan saw the US President dismiss criticism of his original post on the subject by redoubling his attack, accusing Mr Khan of making a "pathetic excuse".
British author J.K. Rowling said on Tuesday that if a state visit did go ahead, Trump's tweets related to the attack should be enlarged and shown wherever he goes.
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"We keep appeasing it", Donald Trump Jr. said Monday in Trump Tower.
"Sadiq Khan is doing a good job", she said.
US President Donald Trump has ordered temporary travel restrictions on people from several Muslim-majority countries, although the ban is now held up by federal courts.
Mrs May had faced calls to distance herself Mr Trump for his incendiary remarks but for two days failed to directly address them.
Khan was indeed trying to calm his city, but Trump's implication that the mayor viewed the horrific event as "no reason to be alarmed" was a gross manipulation of what the mayor said and did.
After the Westminster attack in March of this year, Trump Jnr shared a six-month-old story by The Independent on Twitter which quoted the Mayor of London saying terror attacks were "part and parcel" of living in a global city. "I think the media wants to spin it that way.
That's because they used knives and a truck!" tweeted Trump, according to CNN. "And we, as a society, especially as Americans, better do something about it". The mogul-turned-politico, who was accused of politicising the attack for his own gain, wrongly claimed the mayor had said there was "no reason to be alarmed" about the risk of terror attacks in London. "We have constant attacks going on not just there but across the globe".
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