London Mayor Sadiq Khan has reignited his feud with President-elect Donald J. Trump, claiming the America First leader’s criticisms of him are racially and religiously motivated. “He wasn’t coming for me because I’m five foot six. He’s coming for me because of—let’s be frank—my ethnicity and my religion, so it’s incredibly personal to me,” the Labour politician alleged.

“It affects me, my family. What worries me though, it’s not about me and my family, it’s about the fact that he’s the leader of the free world,” he continued, suggesting that America is a kind of “lighthouse” that can send out “ripples of hope and love, but also ripples of hate.”

“I was speaking out against somebody whose policies were sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, [it] wasn’t because I wanted to come to his attention, [it was] because I have a responsibility to speak out if I think something’s affecting not just Londoners, but… all of us,” Khan insisted.

Trump clashed with Khan after the latter began attacking him for his so-called Muslim ban—travel restrictions on Muslim-majority countries known to have little government and large jihadist contingents. The American leader called the London mayor a “stone-cold loser” and has at various times argued mass migration, which Khan supports, has changed the British capital for the worse.

The 2021 census recorded that the ‘White British’ population of Khan’s city had fallen to just 36.8 percent.

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