US President Trump is like 11-year old child: London Mayor

June 04, 2019 23:07

London's Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday compared US President Donald Trump with a small child after the US president called him a "stone-cold loser" in a series of tweets a day before.

CNN quoted Khan as saying that he was "not offended in the slightest" by the remarks, delivered as Trump began his three-day state visit to the United Kingdom on Monday, but added that the US was expected to behave more like a role model.

"This is the sort of behaviour I would expect from an 11-year-old," Khan said.

"But it's for him to decide how he behaves. It's not for me to respond in a like manner. I think it's beneath me to do childish tweets and name-calling," the mayor added.

Minutes before landing at London's Stansted Airport for a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom, Trump on Monday lashed out at Khan in a series of tweets, branding him "a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London," and not him.

The US president's visit to the UK has been so far marked by pageantry as well as protests. The US president received a royal welcome from Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, completed with a guard of honour march, gun salutes and an opulent white-tie state banquet at Buckingham Palace.

But the visit also attracted anti-Trump protests today, as a giant inflatable blimp depicting the US president as an orange baby in a diaper flew high outside the British Parliament.

Khan, while speaking to CNN at City Hall in London, said people here had the right to protest, as long as it's done peacefully. "They'll be articulating the concerns we have about the values we both hold dear," Khan said.

-- ANI

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