{"id":13425,"date":"2019-06-17T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T01:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/trump-hits-out-again-at-london-mayor-over-violence\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:39:42","slug":"trump-hits-out-again-at-london-mayor-over-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/trump-hits-out-again-at-london-mayor-over-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Continues His Petty Vendetta Against Sadiq Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing\u00a0 Donald Trump likes more than destabilising the Middle East and invoking global trade wars seems to be carrying out petty vendettas on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1190031697.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit Evan El-Amin\/ShutterstocSadiq Khan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His latest target is London Mayor Sadiq Khan who earlier this year had the audacity to state that London shouldn&#8217;t be rolling the red carpet out for President trump&#8217;s visit. Ok, not a very mayoral statement, but boy has he paid for it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13444\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"London Mayor Sadiq Khan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/By-Frederic-Legrand-COMEO.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Mayor Sadiq Khan<br \/>Frederic Legrand &#8211; COMEO\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latest tirade aimed at him followed a pretty brutal day in London when there were two fatal stabbings and a shooting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LONDON needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster &#8211; will only get worse! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n7qKI3BbD2\">https:\/\/t.co\/n7qKI3BbD2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1139967706424369152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, this is far from good, but to be fair it wouldn&#8217;t make the news in the likes of St Louis or Baltimore where the murder rate is exponentially higher, and even in Donald Trumps own Back Yard Washington DC the murder rate is many times higher. In fact under President Trumps stewardship the murder rate in DC hit a record high in early 2019 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehoya.com\/dc-experienced-record-high-homicide-rates-early-2019\/\">The Hoya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the London homicide rate makes Sadiq Khan &#8220;a disaster&#8221;\u00a0 what does it say about him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing\u00a0 Donald Trump likes more than destabilising the Middle East and invoking global trade wars seems to be carrying out petty vendettas on Twitter. &nbsp; His latest target is London Mayor Sadiq Khan who earlier this year had the audacity to state that London shouldn&#8217;t be rolling the red carpet out for President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[246,883],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","category-us-canada-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-sadiq-khan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}