The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has re-ignited his war of words with Donald Trump and once again is on record as calling Trump a “racist”.
And Mr Khan also repeated his accusations that Mr Trump’s policies were “sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist”.
As we know, Sadiq has said Donald Trump criticised him in the past because of the US president-elect’s alleged “racism”. The mayor maintains that, had he been white, Mr Trump (who won the US election earlier this month) would not have “come for me”.
Asked on the High-Performance podcast, recorded just before the election, how it felt to be singled out by Mr Trump, Khan said: “It’s personal, let’s be frank. If I wasn’t this colour skin, if I wasn’t a practising Muslim, he wouldn’t have come for me. He wasn’t coming for me because I’m five foot six. He’s coming for me for, let’s be frank, my ethnicity and my religion, so it’s incredibly personal to me.”
A 2017 incident saw then US President Trump challenge Mr Khan to an IQ test. He also attacked Khan’s response to the London Bridge terror attack, accusing him of having done “a terrible job”. Then, two years later, Trump called him “very dumb” and a “stone-cold loser who should focus on crime in London”.
Mr Khan has subsequently responded by accusing Mr Trump of “hard-Right populism”, and gave the go-ahead to a plan to fly a giant inflatable Trump baby blimp. The war of the blimps then erupted afterwards coinciding with Trump’s diplomatic visit at the time. With a swift response in kind depicted Khan in a yellwo bikini.
OK, I think we can deduce from all this that the mayor doesn’t like Trump, and I think it’s fair to say that is heartily reciprocated. Many of us here don’t like Sadiq Khan either for what he has done to London by inadequately addressing the scourge of knife crime, for example. The irresponsible way he generally fails to attend to his administrative duties is also a cause for great concern.
But here’s where it gets interesting. Further commenting on the podcast, Mr Khan said as follows… “It affects me, my family. What worries me though, it’s not about me and my family, it’s about the fact that he’s the leader of the free world. This is also the [former] president of the USA (as he was at the time of the podcast), a country we all adore, love, we love Americans, we love American culture. But also America’s like a lighthouse.
“They can be somebody that’s a source of good, ripples of hope and love, but also ripples of hate. So, you know the fact that I was speaking out against somebody whose policies were sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, wasn’t because I wanted to come to his attention, [it was] because I have a responsibility to speak out if I think something’s affecting not just Londoners, but affecting all of us. It’s not great. Would I do it again? Absolutely, because you’ve got to speak the truth with power, and I’ve got a platform in the sense of explaining that actually the policies of America have an impact on us, positive and negative.”
Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to be highly infectious and pervasive condition if some of the more bizarre media reports are to be believed. Last week it was reported that Harvard professor had cut his students some slack with their assignment schedules (that’s homework in our lingo) so as to allow students time to process their anguish at the consequences of a Trump victory. Look it up and you’ll find it.
Several professors in the Sociology, Math and General Education Departments at Harvard University cancelled classes that day They made attendance either optional or extended assignment (homework) deadlines.
Economics lecturer Maxim Boycko reportedly told students during his “Intermediate Microeconomics” course that in-class quizzes would be optional on Wednesday and that students could take time off if they needed to process the election results stating: “As we recover from the eventful election night and process the implications of Trump’s victory, please know that class will proceed as usual today, except that classroom quizzes will not be for credit.”
Boycko added, in an email obtained by the Harvard Crimson, that students should “feel free to take time off if needed.”
Not to be outdone the presenters of the ABC show “The View” reached consensus the other day on it being perfectly OK and justified if this holiday season some family members wanted to decline spending time with relatives who had voted the Trump/Vance ticket.
I found this one really tickled the ribs as the logic applied to this lunacy was that it was perfectly justified because Trump is such an awful chap. Their stated respect for the election result rang hollow though when measured against this cobblers.
Sadiq Kahn clearly has TDS symptoms. As for the Harvard and other professors at other snowflake institutions they are clearly very adversely affected.
This time around Trump obviously knows what to expect from the left wing both here and of course in the US. Most importantly, however, he has an overwhelming mandate from popular and electoral college vote majorities, with a bonus full Republican Congress to back them up.
Common sense has returned from the darkest days of rampant wokeism. Will that deter wilful lefty obstructionism? I somehow doubt it, but at least this nonsense will confronted and addressed to some extent, and if he’s successful in his agenda Trump will enjoy popular support.
Two-Tier and his Labour cohorts would do well to pay attention!