DONALD Trump has reignited his war of words with Sadiq Khan calling the London Mayor a “disaster” – after three people were murdered on the streets of London in 24 hours.
The President reacted to the killings by retweeting a post by far-right commentator Katie Hopkins, adding: “LONDON needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster – will only get worse!”
Mr Trump’s comments came after a man in his 30s was knifed to death in Tower Hamlets this afternoon.
He was the third person killed in Lawless London in 24 hours of violence after two teens were murdered in gun and knife attacks within minutes of each other in different parts of the capital on Friday.
Three men were also stabbed in a separate attack in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Mr Khan said he was “sickened” following the deaths of the two teenage boys.
He added: “Our overstretched police are working around the clock to keep Londoners safe. They need our support to end this scourge of violence.”
However Mr Trump called out the London Mayor branding him a “disaster” in what was the latest spat in their long-running feud.
Moments before Mr Trump landed in the UK for his state visit earlier this month he called Mr Khan a “stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London”.
He was angry at Mr Khan for comparing him to a fascist dictator in a newspaper.
As he came in to land, Mr Trump wrote: “Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom.
“He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.
“Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job – only half his height.”
In response to Mr Trump’s tweets, a spokesman for Mr Khan said: “This is much more serious than childish insults which should be beneath the president of the United States
“Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of growing far right threat around the globe.”
The feud between the pair dates back to Mr Trump’s campaign pledge in 2015 to ban Muslims from travelling to the US which Mr Khan criticised as outrageous.
In May 2016 Mr Trump challenged Mr Khan to an IQ test after the London Mayor said his views on Islam were “ignorant”.
Following the London Bridge terror attack in 2017, the US president accused Mr Khan of “pathetic” behaviour.
It came after Mr Khan told Londoners there was “no reason to be alarmed” by an increased and armed police presence in the city after the atrocity.
In July last year Mr Trump said Mr Khan had “done a very bad job on terrorism” and a “bad job on crime”.
The mayor said he would not rise to Donald Trump’s “beastly” accusation he had done “a terrible job” following the London terror attacks.
Mr Trump’s criticism came after Mr Khan allowed activists to fly a giant inflatable blimp of Trump as a crying baby in a nappy.
Violent crimes have soared in London since Mr Khan took over as mayor, with 2018 the bloodiest year in almost a decade.
Scotland Yard have launched 59 murder investigations this year, with 36 of them fatal stabbings.
Figures last month revealed five young people are attacked with a knife every day in London and Mr Khan warned it could take a “decade” to turn back the tide of violent crime.
However Met Police chief Cressida Dick recently hailed a reduction in stabbings of under-25s after more stop and searches.
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