Overview

• Trump told the UN General Assembly that London has a “terrible, terrible mayor” and claimed the city wants “to go to Sharia law.”
• Sadiq Khan responded that the president is “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic,” saying he seems to live “rent-free” in Trump’s head.
• UK ministers offered varied reactions, with Health Secretary Wes Streeting backing Khan, while Pat McFadden and Bridget Phillipson declined to echo the label-laden criticism.
• Nigel Farage said Trump “has a point” in raising sharia as an issue, even as others stressed that British law governs London.
• Reporters noted that sharia councils exist in the UK without legal force, and that Trump’s recent state visit featured no public events in London.