Donald Trump assaults Sadiq Khan and makes wild declare about British ‘Sharia courts’

He tore into Keir Starmer – accusing him of being “no Winston Churchill” over his reluctance to let the US launch attacks on Iran from British soil – and then he turned to the London Mayor

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Donald Trump attacked Sadiq Khan and claimed “Sharia courts” operate in the UK as he lashed out over Britain being “uncooperative” over Iran. He tore into Keir Starmer – accusing him of being “no Winston Churchill” over his reluctance to let the US launch attacks on Iran from British soil.

Trump said the UK had been “very, very uncooperative”, and complained that it had taken three or four days to come to an agreement about US use of bases in England and Diego Garcia. And he admitted the “worst case scenario” of the conflict would be someone rising up to replace the regime who is just as bad.

“The worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” Trump said during an Oval Office event alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. That could happen. We don’t want that to happen. It would probably be the worst – you go through this and then in five years, you realise you put somebody in who was no better.”

He threatened to cut off all trade with Spain over their refusal to let the US launch attacks from joint airbases in southern Spain. And turning to Starmer’s reluctance to support the US in the conflict, Trump said: “This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with.”

“I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have,” he said, referencing the UK’s deal to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in return for a 100 year lease on them and the UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia. That they gave away and took a 100 year lease, having perhaps to do with indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about? They ruin relationships, it’s a shame, it’s a shame.”

Trump then launched into a lengthy rant claiming wind farms and immigration have ruined the UK.

“The UK, I love that country, my mother was born there…I love it,” he said. “There are places that you automatically feel warmly about. But the UK, what they’re doing with energy and what they’re doing with immigration is horrible.”

The UK’s use of windmills to generate electricity has been a constant bugbear for Trump, ever since a wind farm was built off the coast of one of his Scottish golf courses, which he considered an eyesore. He also returned to a frequent target for his attacks, London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan.

“You have a terrible mayor of London,” he said. “A terrible mayor. An incompetent guy. And you have Sharia Courts”.

The UK does not have ‘Sharia courts’. Some Muslim groups hold sharia councils, but similarly to Ecclesiastical Courts in the Church of England and Canon Law Tribunals in the Catholic Church, both of which also operate in the UK, they have no authority in law. Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism also have voluntary arbitration tribunals similar to Sharia councils.

Responding to an earlier jibe from the President, a spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said: “The Mayor is clearly still living rent free in Donald’s Trump’s head. He’s obsessed with him. Sadiq could probably claim squatters rights.”