Donald Trump has criticised Mayor of London Sadiq Khan after he condemned the US President for playing golf as parts of the country made preparations for Hurricane Dorian.
“He’s clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course,” Khan said in an interview with Politico on Sunday.
Spelling his name incorrectly twice, Trump responded by calling Khan “incompetent” and described him as a “terrible mayor”, once again mentioning London’s knife crime rate.
The US president also claimed people were “afraid to even walk the streets.”
Tweeting on Tuesday, Trump wrote: “The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadique Kahn, was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday. Many Pols exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive). President Obama would fly to Hawaii”.
“Kahn should focus on ‘knife crime,’ which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets. He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!” he added.
Trump deleted the initial tweets before reposting the messages, correcting the spelling of Khan’s first name but still misspelling his surname.
The exchange is the latest in a series of rows between the pair, with the president describing Khan as “a stone cold loser” shortly before his state visit to the UK in June.
Trump canceled his planned trip to Poland at the last minute on Thursday to be ready to direct the federal response to Hurricane Dorian, he said. But he made sure to spend several hours at one of his golf courses on Saturday — and again on Monday.