Donald Trump slammed for ‘politics of fear at its worst’ after he attacks David Cameron and Sadiq Khan
Republican presidential hopeful denies being anti-Muslim and says he unifies people
DAVID Cameron and Sadiq Khan have hit out at Donald Trump after he slammed them in an interview this morning.
The Republican presidential hopeful said he is the only person in the world prepared to talk about terrorism and warned he might not have a good relationship with the Prime Minister if he becomes the next American president.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning he responded to comments the Prime Minister made about Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Cameron called the idea "divisive, stupid and wrong" and has since refused to withdraw those comments.
Dismissing the remarks, Trump said:"It looks like we're not going to have a very good relationship.
"I hope to have a good relationship with him, but it sounds like he's not willing to address the problem either.
“People think you can pretend like it’s not existing. It’s a disaster. It’s as bad as it gets.”
And speaking after the interview aired, a Number 10 source said the Prime Minister's position had not changed.
He said: "The prime minister has made his views clear and we have nothing to add."
On Good Morning Britain this morning Trump did not apologise for his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the USA.
Instead he said it would be just a temporary ban and said one of his Muslim friends had thanked him for bringing up the issue.
He said: “We have a tremendous problem with radical Islamic terror.
“The world is blowing up. We have to discuss it.
“I have many Muslim friends. I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-terror.
“I’m not against any religion but there’s something going on there.
“We have to get to the bottom of it.”
Trump has also faced criticism from the new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who has called Trump's views on Islam "ignorant" and warned they could make "both our countries less safe".
Last week he said he would make an exception to his Muslim ban rule and let Khan travel to America, which prompted the mayor to say he did not want to be the exception to the rule.
And speaking today, Trump said he "didn't care" about the London mayor and thought his statements were "very rude".
“He doesn’t know me. He’s never met me. He doesn’t know what I’m about.”
"Tell him I will remember those statements," he said. "They're very nasty statements."
Commenting on the Trump interview, a spokesman for the London mayor said: "Donald Trump’s views are ignorant, divisive and dangerous.
"It’s the politics of fear at its worse.
"It plays straight into the extremists’ hands and makes both our countries less safe."
Trump said he was the opposite of stupid and rather than thinking of himself as divisive, called himself a unifier.
When Cameron made his comments in the House of Commons last year it was still not certain who would win the Republican nomination for the presidential election.
But now Trump is all but a certainty to be his party’s choice.