On Tuesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan revealed that the city&#8217;s Piccadilly Circus underground station would be plastered wall-to-wall with a digital drawing from famed British artist David Hockney that was little more than a misshapen yellow circle — a derivative of the London Tube logo — and the station name &#8220;Piccadilly Circus&#8221; crammed into a space so tiny that the artist left &#8220;S&#8221; hanging below the rest of its alphabetic compadres in a separate line below.
Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1968014-1968014">Artnet</a> described it: &#8220;A jejune design that recalls Windows 98-era of Microsoft Paint, Hockney’s interpretation of the iconic London tube logo boasts a malformed, highlighter-yellow &#8216;O&#8217; and a station name board the color of everyone’s favorite purple dinosaur. The artist even ran out of space for the words &#8216;Piccadilly Circus,&#8217; cramming in a rogue &#8216;s&#8217; below.&#8221;
&#8220;Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsDoLondon?src=hashtag_click">#LetsDoLondon</a> campaign. Lots more to come very soon!&#8221; Sadiq Khan said in his post as he unveiled the new &#8220;art&#8221; installment. Behold the British taxpayer dollars at work:
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Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsDoLondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsDoLondon</a> campaign. Lots more to come very soon! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidHockney?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DavidHockney</a> <a href="https://t.co/djW8BGSNuu">pic.twitter.com/djW8BGSNuu</a>
&mdash; Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1392134314939371527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Outside of the Piccadilly Circus station, wandering pedestrians are also invited to feast their eyes on a series of Hockney&#8217;s digital paintings, including one that featured no discernible drawings whatsoever, displaying only the words, &#8220;Remember that you cannot look at the sun or death for very long.&#8221; According to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9561307/Sadiq-Khan-launches-7m-Lets-London-campaign-attract-staycationers-capital.html">Daily Mail</a>, the art displays are part of Khan&#8217;s £7m “Let&#8217;s Do London” campaign that seeks to bolster tourism in the city in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic:
<blockquote>Labour incumbent Mr. Khan formally signed in for a second term on stage at Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe this morning unveiling the £7 million-plus &#8216;Let&#8217;s Do London&#8217; campaign as an immediate priority.
The programme, which has been developed and funded in partnership with the city&#8217;s hospitality, culture, and retail industries, is aimed at bringing in a wealth of domestic tourism to help London&#8217;s economy get back on its feet as <a id="mol-2562be10-b16a-11eb-934a-dd11d9585c60" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/coronavirus/index.html">Covid-19</a> restrictions are eased.
The features will range from celebrations of London&#8217;s food offerings, to a variety of new public art installations including a redesign of Transport for London&#8217;s iconic &#8216;Hockney Circus&#8217; roundel in a special artwork from David Hockney.
In summer, the city&#8217;s museums, galleries and cultural and grassroots music venues will have extended opening hours, while major creative festivals such as London Fashion Week will return to the capital in autumn.</blockquote>
Some Londoners did not agree with Khan&#8217;s take on Hockney&#8217;s work:
&#8220;If you had said this was a children’s competition to redesign the logo and this was the winner I’d have equally believe it,&#8221; said one user.
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If you had said this was a children’s competition to redesign the logo and this was the winner I’d have equally believe it
&mdash; Freddie Collier (@FreddieCollier) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreddieCollier/status/1392135396419645442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Listen. I respect art. I do. But I&#8217;ve seen better work on Fiverr. Is there a message I am missing? Like is the S meant to mean Sadiq taking London over the edge? What&#8217;s the point?&#8221; said another user.
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Listen. I respect art. I do. But I&#39;ve seen better work on Fiverr.
Is there a message I am missing? Like is the S meant to mean Sadiq taking London over the edge? 
What&#39;s the point?
&mdash; georgegaz (@georgegaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/georgegaz/status/1392136097816317952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Don’t get me wrong, I love some art. But how much did this cost? And isn’t TFL practically bankrupt? Can’t believe you got re-elected,&#8221; tweeted another.
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Don’t get me wrong, I love some art. But how much did this cost? And isn’t TFL practically bankrupt? Can’t believe you got re-elected 🤦🏼‍♂️
&mdash; Seamus (@Seamus__Duff) <a href="https://twitter.com/Seamus__Duff/status/1392137537548951556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;London: &#8216;David, you said you’d have something to us by today?&#8217; *crashing noise* London: &#8216;David? Are you there?&#8217; *panicked scribbling sounds* David Hockney: &#8216;Yes, yes. Just sending it…'&#8221; tweeted Luke Benson.
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London: “David, you said you’d have something to us by today?”
*crashing noise*
London: “David? Are you there?”
*panicked scribbling sounds*
David Hockney: “Yes, yes. Just sending it…”
&mdash; Luke Benson (@Mr_LukeBenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mr_LukeBenson/status/1392148294965645319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/modern-art-banana-taped-to-wall-sells-for-over-100k">Modern ‘Art’: Banana Taped To Wall Sells For Over $100K</a>

BRITAIN-ART

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Mocked Online After Spending Taxpayer Money On Modern Art Displays

London

Sadiq Khan

Speaking to LBC in the wake of the disappearance of marketing executive Sarah Everard, 33, as she was walking home on March 3 in Clapham, London mayor Sadiq Khan acknowledged London’s streets are not safe for women and girls.
<a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/londons-streets-are-not-safe-for-women-or-for-girls-sadiq-khan-tells-lbc/">LBC asked</a>, “London’s streets are not safe for women, are they?”
“No, they aren’t, or for girls, and it’s really important that people of my gender understand that,” Khan replied. “If you’re a women or a girl and your experiences of our city of any public place, whether it’s on the streets on public transport, it’s very different to if you’re a man or a boy, and it’s really important that people like me in positions of power and influence understand that and take steps to address that.”
“You know, what’s missing from the conversation is that we talk in this area about protecting women, I think the conversation should be start with the actions of men and boys, actually,” he continued. “What’s going on in our culture, where it’s a sign of masculinity to intimidate women and to harass women on the streets … what is it about us we don’t understand that women and girls want some personal space on a busy cheap or a busy bus?”
“We&#8217;ve invested more than £16 million to make it safer for women and girls in our city who are on the receiving end of the violence,” Khan stated. “It takes being a victim a number of times, particularly of domestic abuse and domestic violence, where you come forward so we&#8217;ve supported victim’s groups, survivors groups and also funded refuge hostels and accommodation to give women a safe place to flee.”
“Police searching for Everard, who was last seen on March 3 in Clapham, south London, have found what <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1369749815752601600">appear to be human remains</a> in woodland in Kent, the force confirmed late Wednesday,” CNN reported, adding, “Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1369769159161221126">pointed out</a> that it was ‘incredibly rare for women to be abducted’ in the streets.” Dick added, “I completely understand that despite this, women in London and the wider public — particularly those in the area where Sarah went missing — will be worried and may well be feeling scared.&#8221;
British police have allegedly warned women <a href="https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/anger-after-police-tell-women-20047944">not to go out</a> alone; a vigil titled “Reclaim These Streets” is scheduled for this Saturday. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/338249534275512/">website</a> for the vigil on Facebook states:
<blockquote>We believe that streets should be safe for women, regardless of what you wear, where you live or what time of day or night it is. We shouldn’t have to wear bright colours when we walk home and clutch our keys in our fists to feel safe. It’s wrong that the response to violence against women requires women to behave differently. In Clapham, police told women not to go out at night this week. Women are not the problem.</blockquote>

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Plays Tennis With Key Workers At All England Club

Streets Not Safe For Women And Girls, London Mayor Says

Violence

Women

London Mayor Sadiq Khan returned to his anti-Trump antics by calling the President of the United States a &#8220;six-foot-three child&#8221; while speaking at an education conference Saturday, reports <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/22/sadiq-khan-hits-back-at-donald-trump-calling-him-six-foot-three-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Guardian</a>.
&#8220;For those of you that have your phones on, if somebody starts tweeting about me &#8211; a 6ft 3 child in the White House &#8211; can you let me know?&#8221; Khan said at the Together for Education event at Central Hall in Westminster.
Khan, the mayor to one of the world&#8217;s most important cities, has been relentless in his attacks against President Trump, and those attacks often go beyond just criticizing Trump&#8217;s politics. On the eve of President Trump traveling to Britain for a state visit, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47083/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-doesnt-deserve-state-paul-bois">mayor actually said</a> that Queen Elizabeth II should not dignify the president by hosting him, as if Trump were a vicious foreign dictator.
&#8220;Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn&#8217;t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn&#8217;t have a state banquet,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit. &#8220;I think President Trump is certainly not in the same class as those two.&#8221;
Khan said he takes particular issue with President Trump&#8217;s past comments about women.
&#8220;The impression is being given that you can get away from it &#8212; that you get a get-out-of-jail card. But it&#8217;s worse than that,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a boasting and bragging, it&#8217;s almost like a green light for others to behave badly.&#8221;
The feud between Mayor Khan and President Trump escalated when Khan <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sadiq-khan-trump-fascist_n_5cf3cdece4b0a1997b6bed40" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">penned an op-ed</a> <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/donald-trump-state-visit-red-carpet-unbritish" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in The Observer</a> in which he likened Trump&#8217;s rhetoric to &#8220;fascists of the 20th century.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat,&#8221; Khan wrote. &#8220;<a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/far-right">The far right</a> is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than seventy years &#8230; And they are gaining ground and winning power and influence in places that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.&#8221;
Not being one to take it lying down, President Trump hit back against Khan&#8217;s critique on Twitter, asserting that Khan has done &#8220;a terrible job as Mayor&#8221; while likening him to Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City.
&#8220;Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly &#8216;nasty&#8217; 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,&#8221; the president wrote. &#8220;Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job &#8211; only half his height. In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit.&#8221;
Trump and Khan have had a tumultuous relationship ever since the 2016 election, during which the then-candidate issued harsh critiques of Islam as Khan went on to become the city&#8217;s first Muslim mayor.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan: Trump Is A ‘Six-Foot-Three Child’

Donald Trump

More and more, the left is spouting a rhetoric of high, moral-sounding fantasies to distract from the ruinous havoc their policies wreak on the real world.
You could hear the cognitive dissonance this week in the small kerfuffle between London’s utterly incompetent and self-righteous Mayor Sadiq Khan and America’s unruly but generally effectual president.
Khan, a virtue-signaling jackass, spent much of Trump’s UK visit excoriating the president for such crimes as pulling out of the useless Paris Climate Accord and failing to kowtow to the left’s inchoate ideas about “diversity.”
Trump responded trumpianly by calling Khan a “stone cold loser,” and pointing out that “he’s done a poor job, crime is up, a lot of problems.”
And, well, yes. Khan’s a mayor, after all. His job is running a city not forging the conscience of a nation. And his city — once the greatest on Earth — has become a cesspool of record homelessness, impossible traffic and a murder rate spiraling higher than it has for over a decade. Unwise immigration policies fashioned on misguided diversity theory are a huge contributor to the problems. So in a reasonable world, Khan would be prevented from making high moral declarations by the sock he’d stuck in his own mouth.
Which brings us home to America. Here, Trump’s deregulation and tax cut policies have helped ignite an economy that has brought unemployment among blacks to record lows.
And sure, that’s great in real life, but how is it playing in the left’s moralistic fantasies? When confronted with the triumphant results of Trump’s actions, Harvard Professor Cornel West complained about the way the president talks, “When you create an atmosphere, an ambience of xenophobia, it reinforces the polarization and therefore many black folk wouldn&#8217;t even be able to connect the statistics that look good with the language.”
For one thing, so much of the president’s admittedly rough-hewn language has been purposely distorted and taken out of context by a news media desperate to prove every Republican racist. It’s an open question, therefore, whether it’s Trump or CNN who is at fault for the bad ambience around here. But laying that aside, West is essentially saying that Trump’s indifference to left-wing academic standards of racial sensitivity is more important than what he has actually accomplished for actual human beings.
Congressman Al Green of Texas says the same: “The president can be impeached for his racism and his bigotry. Unfortunately, however, he is a beneficial bigot. Meaning he benefits a good many people and I, unfortunately, have to tell you I&#8217;m so saddened when I see people who have built their reputations fighting bigotry allowing this to persist to the extent that it has.&#8221;
Run that around in your aching head a moment. The president is a “beneficial bigot” because his policies help “a good many people.” Is that the same as his being a not-bigot who simply doesn’t kowtow to the politically correct speech codes the left has imposed on us to keep us from criticizing their awful policies?
Because if you want to get a load of some non-beneficial non-bigotry all you have to do is visit one of America’s left-wing cities. “Rats at the police station, filth on L.A. streets — scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control,” reads a headline in the Los Angeles Times. The filth has gotten so bad in my town, officials are worried about the spread of flea-borne typhus and rodent-carried bubonic plague — that’s the Black Death that once wiped out a third of Europe, just so you know.
The local news station in Seattle — where left-wing governance has brought about the same sorry Angelino state of affairs — is running an hour-long documentary called “Is Seattle Dying?” and yes, it is. Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco likewise. And in Chicago, after a single weekend in which over 50 people were shot, Jussie Smollett is now the only person in the city who hasn’t been attacked.
Meanwhile, the crisis at our border has become an emergency — a catastrophe for all concerned that could be ended with a few tweaks to our absurd asylum laws. But the “resistance” resists doing anything meaningful to stop it because they’re too busy displaying their compassion for illegals in front of any TV camera they can find.
The left spends an awful lot of energy trying to get conservatives to shut up. Political correctness, deplatforming, demonetizing, blacklisting, outrage mobs, boycotts — all dedicated to making sure that they alone get to do the talking.
But you know what? The right doesn’t even need words to make the point anymore. Just go to the Democrat-governed cities. Look out the window. Walk the streets.
Everything the left talks about is meaningless. Everything they touch turns to crap.

KLAVAN: Leftists Virtue Pose While Their Cities Die

Leftism

(*For the entirety of this column, &#8220;President Trump&#8221; will be replaced with &#8220;America&#8217;s president.&#8221;)
Once upon a time, there was an ironclad adage in America: &#8220;Politics stop at the water&#8217;s edge.&#8221;
Its meaning is simple: We can disagree at home all we like, but when the President of the United States &#8212; America&#8217;s president &#8212; goes overseas, we are all Americans. All of us. Whether you voted for the current president or not, Americans are bound together by the simple undeniable bond that we are all, in the end, just that: Americans.
But for Democrats, they don&#8217;t care one bit that America&#8217;s president is being bashed overseas, U.S. policy ridiculed. They hate America&#8217;s president so much that they sit idly by as Londoners violently protest and ridicule America&#8217;s president with detestable names.
America&#8217;s president flew to Britain on Sunday for an official state visit that included a lavish banquet with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. He was also there as the top U.S. official to celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when America and its allies thrust a dagger into the heart of Nazism and helped save the world.
Back at home, House Democrats were busy preparing to move forward with a censure against America&#8217;s president as an alternative to impeaching him. Rep. Ro Khanna, California Democrat, said it would be &#8220;a permanent mark on the president&#8217;s record.&#8221;
While Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese military slaughtered hundreds and perhaps thousands of young students, Yahoo! News went with this headline, &#8220;[America&#8217;s president] accused of breaking royal protocol by touching the queen&#8217;s back.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s top story: &#8220;Here&#8217;s what the anti-[America&#8217;s president] protests look like.&#8221; The second top story: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi is winning the impeachment fight.&#8221;
Meanwhile in Britain, America&#8217;s president was being harangued.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called America&#8217;s president a &#8220;fascist,&#8221; deemed him a &#8220;growing global threat,&#8221; and said Britain &#8212; America&#8217;s greatest ally &#8212; should not roll out the red carpet for America&#8217;s president. Forget for a moment that it&#8217;s &#8230; what&#8217;s his name, the London mayor was saying all this about the President of the United States.
Khan said America&#8217;s president is &#8220;the antithesis of our values in London and as a country,&#8221; and claimed that the president&#8217;s &#8220;divisive behavior flies in the face of the ideals America was founded upon &#8212; equality, liberty and religious freedom.&#8221;
Other U.K. politicians have denounced the state visit. Some refused to attend the palace banquet with America&#8217;s president; others sought to ban him from speaking to Parliament.
Through all this, no Democrat &#8212; not one &#8212; defended America&#8217;s president from the savage attacks against him. No Democrat is unhappy that some miserable mayor is slamming America&#8217;s president? Not one of them would step forward and say, simply, &#8220;Hey, we can say that, but you can&#8217;t, so shut it?&#8221;
This has all happened before. When America&#8217;s president met in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018, a former Obama administration official deemed it &#8220;treason.&#8221; A CNN &#8220;analyst&#8221; called for a &#8220;shadow government&#8221; to take him out. An MSNBC contributor said the performance of America&#8217;s president will &#8220;live in infamy&#8221; as much as Pearl Harbor or Kristallnacht. Former FBI Director James B. Comey said, &#8220;Patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president.&#8221;
Hillary Clinton went even further. &#8220;Question for [America&#8217;s president] as he meets Putin: Do you know which team you play for?&#8221; the two-time presidential loser asked on Twitter.
(A quick aside: I didn&#8217;t vote for Barack Obama, but he was MY president. I disagreed with almost every one of his policies, but when he went overseas, nobody better slam him or his policy. I&#8217;m an American and he was the American president, So I&#8217;ve got his back. I also don&#8217;t agree with everything America&#8217;s current president does, but when he&#8217;s abroad, he&#8217;s MY president.)
America&#8217;s president on Wednesday will celebrate Britain&#8217;s steely nerve on D-Day. On June 6, America&#8217;s president will represent all Americans in France for more ceremonies to commemorate the momentous anniversary.
But Democrats couldn&#8217;t care less. They&#8217;ll continue to bash America&#8217;s president, even as he is overseas representing us. Not Republicans &#8230; all of us.
They ought to be ashamed.

*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

CURL: Brits Bash America’s President* And Democrats Don’t Say A Word

Democratic Party

Hillary Clinton

Speaking at an anti-Trump rally in London on Tuesday, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who refused to attend Monday&#8217;s state banquet at Buckingham Palace featuring Trump but did attend a banquet for Communist Chinese president Xi Jinping, told an estimated 30,000 anti-Trump protesters that Trump treated refugees like &#8220;enemies&#8217;,&#8221; ignored climate change, and tried to exploit the NHS for profit.
As the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7103743/Trump-supporter-viciously-attacked-doused-milkshake.html">Daily Mail</a> reported, Corbyn ranted:
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When you&#8217;ve created that sense of hate, when you&#8217;ve destroyed people&#8217;s self-esteem by those forms of racism, do you know what? You haven&#8217;t built a house, you haven&#8217;t built a school, you haven&#8217;t trained a nurse, you haven&#8217;t defended our natural world &#8211; all you&#8217;ve done is created a greater sense of hate and hatred that goes with it &#8230; I say to our visitors that have arrived this week. Think on please about a world that is one of peace and disarmament, is one recognizing the values of all people, is a world that defeats racism, defeats misogyny, defeats the religious hatreds that are being fuelled by the far-Right in politics in Britain, in Europe and the United States.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan echoed the attack on Trump after Trump blasted him on Twitter on Monday. Khan snapped, &#8220;This is the sort of behavior I would expect from an 11-year-old. But it&#8217;s for him to decide how he behaves. It&#8217;s not for me to respond in a like manner. I think it&#8217;s beneath me to do childish tweets and name-calling.&#8221;
On Sunday, Khan had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/donald-trump-state-visit-red-carpet-unbritish">referred</a> to Trump as a &#8220;growing global threat,&#8221; writing, &#8220;Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat. The far right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than seventy years.&#8221; Khan added, &#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so un-British to be rolling out the red carpet this week for a formal state visit for a president whose divisive behavior flies in the face of the ideals America was founded upon &#8211; equality, liberty and religious freedom.&#8221;
Emily Thornberry, a member of the Labour Party who serves as the Shadow Foreign Secretary, told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today that Trump was a &#8220;sexual predator.&#8221; She stated, &#8220;A state visit is an honor and we don&#8217;t think this president deserves an honor. The truth is he has tried to close borders with Muslim-majority countries, he is caging small Mexican children, he has grabbed women and boasted about it. He is a sexual predator, he is a racist and it&#8217;s right to say that &#8212; we need to think about when is it our country got so scared?&#8221;
Thornberry defended Corbyn having dinner with Xi Jinping but skipping the banquet with Trump by saying, &#8220;When you have a close friend and they&#8217;re going wrong, you are more likely to be adamant with them and clearer with them than someone who has not been as close a friend and someone you are trying to build a relationship up with.&#8221;

DISGUSTING: Labour Party’s Corbyn, London Mayor Khan, And Others All Mock Trump

Jeremy Corbyn

Before President Donald Trump&#8217;s plane had even touched down in the United Kingdom for his historic state visit, planned to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, London Mayor Sadiq Khan was already on the offensive, comparing Trump to 20th century dictators and chastising the British government for rolling out the red carpet for its top ally.
When he finally landed in London Monday, Trump fired back, calling Khan a &#8220;stone cold loser&#8221; in a tweet.
Khan began his campaign against Trump over the weekend, first authorizing a series of massive protests slated to take place in London, and then <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/02/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-compares-trump-to-fascists-ahead-of-uk-visit.html">penning an op-ed in The Guardian</a>, warning leaders that Trump&#8217;s visit will be one they would come to regret.
&#8220;Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat,&#8221; Khan wrote, under the headline, &#8220;It&#8217;s un-British to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump.&#8221;
He then accused Trump of being part of the &#8220;global rise of the far right,&#8221; and accused the American president of stripping his countrymen of rights and liberties, though his essay was light on any actual examples. Instead, Khan simply opined that Trump has destroyed &#8220;our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than seventy years.&#8221;
Khan, of course, has been a crusader for speech codes and weapons bans, infringing on two &#8220;rights and freedoms&#8221; that are constitutionally protected in the United States.
He went on to allude to a connection between Donald Trump and &#8220;20th century fascists,&#8221; presumably including Adolf Hitler, apparently implying that the president, in the U.K. to celebrate the liberation of the western world from the Nazi threat, is himself the modern iteration of it.
&#8220;Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage here in the UK are using the same divisive tropes of the fascists of the 20th century to garner support, but are using new sinister methods to deliver their message,&#8221; Khan whined.
The White House issued no response to Khan&#8217;s essay, but Monday morning, as he landed in the U.K., the president himself tweeted that Khan was little more than a &#8220;stone cold loser,&#8221; echoing criticism Trump has leveled at the London mayor following a handful of terrorist attacks.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SadiqKhan</a>, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly &#8220;nasty&#8221; 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&#8230;&#8230;
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135453891326238721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;.@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly &#8220;nasty&#8221; 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&#8230;&#8230;,&#8221; Trump tweeted.
Trump also took a potshot at Khan&#8217;s height and tenor, comparing him to New York mayor and flailing 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Bill de Blasio.
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&#8230;.Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job &#8211; only half his height. In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135453895277203458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;.Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job &#8211; only half his height. In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now!&#8221; he continued.
Monday morning, Khan hit the president again, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/london-mayor-releases-video-criticizing-trumps-lack-of-feminist-values">appearing in a video for Elle magazine U.K</a>., criticizing the American president&#8217;s lack of &#8220;feminist&#8221; values.
The White House has reportedly been trying to keep Trump&#8217;s focus on more important matters, including the D-Day celebrations and the ongoing issues with Brexit in the U.K., as well as an impending election. <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1135518/Donald-Trump-UK-visit-US-London-mayor-Sadiq-Khan-Twitter-latest-Brexit-news">Khan has reportedly been chastized</a> by members of his own government for quarreling with the American president, who, whether he likes it or not, represents one of the U.K.&#8217;s top allies.

President Trump Lands In U.K. For Historic State Visit, Immediately Trades Barbs With London Mayor

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said last week that he didn&#8217;t believe President Donald Trump was worthy of a state banquet hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. It turns out, though, he won&#8217;t have to suffer through seeing Trump honored by the royal family.
Queen Elizabeth has declined to invite Khan to Trump&#8217;s state dinner, snubbing London&#8217;s top administrator, apparently over fears he&#8217;ll be inappropriately aggressive toward the American leader, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1122903/sadiq-khan-donald-trump-state-visit-queen-elizabeth-ii-buckignham-palace-june">Express.co.uk reports</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47083/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-doesnt-deserve-state-paul-bois">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Paul Bois</a> reported on Saturday that Khan has been an outspoken critic of Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s decision to host Trump for an official state visit, even going so far as to say that Trump doesn&#8217;t deserve the honor, despite being president of the United States.
&#8220;Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn&#8217;t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn&#8217;t have a state banquet,&#8221; Khan told a radio program last week. &#8220;History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit. I think President Trump is certainly not in the same class as those two.&#8221;
Sunday, the mayor&#8217;s office admitted that he was not asked to join in the celebration, meant not just to commemorate Trump&#8217;s first official visit to the United Kingdom, but also to memorialize the &#8220;special relationship&#8221; forged between the two nations during the Second World War II on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
&#8220;The mayor has not been invited to the state banquet,&#8221; Khan&#8217;s spokesperson told media.
Invitations were instead sent to Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, both of whom declined to attend the banquet. Cable told media that his RSVP should be considered a &#8220;boycott.&#8221;
&#8220;We should not be beguiled by pomp and circumstance into hobnobbing with a man who is on record as a misogynist and a racist,&#8221; Cable said.
There is no love lost between Khan and Trump; the pair have been at odds before Trump was even elected in 2016. Khan has repeatedly criticized Trump over his treatment of women and minorities, and lashed out at Trump over his domestic policies, particularly Trump&#8217;s attitude toward Islam. Khan is Muslim and is the first Muslim mayor of London.
Trump has, in turn, critiqued Khan over his &#8220;knife control&#8221; policies, meant to keep stabbings and random knifings down in London&#8217;s city center, and was especially perturbed last year when Khan approved a ridiculous &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; balloon to fly over downtown London during the president&#8217;s last visit.
It is not known whether &#8220;Baby Trump,&#8221; which has been on something of a &#8220;tour&#8221; of protests in the United States, will reappear as part of the protests expected to mark the president&#8217;s second trip to the U.K. and his first official state visit, but at least Khan won&#8217;t get the opportunity to sneak Baby Trump into dinner in his suit pocket.
President Trump is due to arrive in the United Kingdom on June 4 or 5, and he will attend not just a state banquet hosted by the Queen and other members of the British royal family at Buckingham Palace, but a host of other meetings with leaders of the U.K.&#8217;s conservative party. He will also participate in several events in the U.K. commemorating the role the British military played in hosting, training, and partnering with the American military ahead of the D-Day landings, June 6, 1944.
The president will then travel to France to participate in the official D-Day 75 celebration on Omaha Beach in Normandy.

SNUBBED: Queen Declines To Invite London Mayor Sadiq Khan To Trump State Dinner

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Even though President Donald Trump was dutifully elected to become the leader of the United States &#8212; the most powerful position the world &#8212; the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says that the American president does not deserve a state visit to the United Kingdom.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-obama-bush-state-visit-britain">Fox News</a>, Sadiq Khan did an interview on the British radio station LBC in which he said that Trump was not &#8220;in the same class&#8221; as former President Barack Obama.
&#8220;Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn&#8217;t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn&#8217;t have a state banquet,&#8221; Khan said.
President George W. Bush enjoyed a state visit to the United Kingdom in 2003; Barack Obama in 2011.
&#8220;History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit,&#8221; Khan continued. &#8220;I think President Trump is certainly not in the same class as those two.&#8221;
Khan said he takes particular issue with President Trump&#8217;s past comments about women. &#8220;The impression is being given that you can get away from it &#8212; that you get a get-out-of-jail card. But it&#8217;s worse than that,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a boasting and bragging, it&#8217;s almost like a green light for others to behave badly.&#8221;
The London mayor is not the only official in Britain who feels that Trump should not be given a state visit. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-refuses-invite-queen-to-attend-state-banquet-with-donald-trump-2019-4">said that he will be boycotting</a> the &#8220;racist and misogynistic&#8221; president during his visit.
&#8220;Theresa May should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit to honour a President who rips up vital international treaties, backs climate change denial and uses racist and misogynist rhetoric,&#8221; Corbyn said in April. &#8220;Maintaining an important relationship with the United States does not require the pomp and ceremony of a State Visit. It is disappointing that the Prime Minister has again opted to kowtow to this US administration.&#8221;
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and the House of Commons speaker John Bercow have also denounced the state visit and will be boycotting the event. &#8220;[Britain] should not be beguiled by pomp and circumstance into hobnobbing with a man who is on record as a misogynist and a racist,&#8221; said Cable.
Trump and Khan have had a tumultuous relationship ever since the 2016 election, during which the then-candidate issued harsh critiques of Islam as Khan went on to become the city&#8217;s first Muslim mayor. Throughout Khan&#8217;s tenure, the city has seen a rise in crime rates to the point that he has had to implement &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29179/londons-mayor-declares-intense-new-knife-control-emily-zanotti">knife control</a>&#8221; measures.
&#8220;An epidemic of stabbings and acid attacks in London has gotten so bad that London mayor Sadiq Khan is announcing broad new &#8216;knife control&#8217; policies designed to keep these weapons of war out of the hands of Londoners looking to cause others harm,&#8221; reported The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti in April of last year. &#8220;The &#8216;tough, immediate&#8217; measures involve an incredible police crackdown, a ban on home deliveries of knives and acid, and expanding law enforcement stop-and-search powers so that police may stop anyone they believe to be a threat, or planning a knife or acid attack.&#8221;

London Mayor Sadiq Khan: Trump Doesn’t Deserve A State Visit

After yet another suspected terror attack in which a vehicle was used as a weapon, and fresh off of rolling out a new &#8220;knife control&#8221; initiative, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is now considering banning cars from some key areas in the city.
Speaking with <a href="http://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1029622819401998336">BBC</a> radio Wednesday, Khan said he&#8217;s looking into prohibiting vehicles in select areas of Parliament Square. While he said he certainly doesn&#8217;t want to prevent people from the &#8220;important&#8221; ability to have &#8220;access to parliamentarians&#8221; to lobby them, the string of terror attacks in the area involving vehicles is requiring him to look into clamping down on who can drive where.
&#8220;I think there would be lots of challenges if we would do the whole square. It is a thoroughfare for cars, vehicles and commercial deliveries going through London,&#8221; he said, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/london-mayor-wants-to-ban-cars-in-some-areas-after-attack/">Politico</a> reported. &#8220;So it&#8217;s possible to have a designed solution &#8230; in keeping our buildings and people as safe as we can do. And also not losing what is so wonderful about our city that is a vibrant democracy, people can walk around safely.&#8221;
Khan&#8217;s car control comments come after a suspected terrorist, a 29-year-old British citizen from Sudan, was arrested Tuesday after driving his Ford Fiesta into a group of pedestrians and cyclists on the sidewalk in Westminster, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34464/suspected-terror-attack-westminster-man-plows-car-james-barrett">injuring three</a> before crashing into a barrier outside Parliament.
In April, Khan announced that London was creating a &#8220;violent crime taskforce of 120 officers&#8221; to help crack down on knife-wielding individuals in public spaces. The city is also investing almost $50 million to better equip the Metropolitan Police to root out potential knife-carrying threats.
&#8220;No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife,&#8221; said Khan when he first announced his new knife control policies. &#8220;Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.&#8221;
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No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law. <a href="https://t.co/XILUvIFLOW">https://t.co/XILUvIFLOW</a>
&#8212; Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/982906526334668800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34509/weekly-rate-acid-attacks-uk-hits-staggering-number-amanda-prestigiacomo">Weekly Rate Of Acid Attacks In U.K. Hits Staggering Number, Khan&#8217;s London Hit Hardest</a>

After Imposing ‘Knife Control,’ London’s Khan Now Wants To Ban Cars In Key Areas

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the wave of violence that is plaguing London from . . . eating.
On Thursday, Khan announced he was proposing a ban on junk food advertising posted on the entire Transport for London network:
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The Mayor of London <a href="https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SadiqKhan</a> proposes a ban on junk food adverts on the entire Transport for London network <a href="https://t.co/GSzm0I5AKy">pic.twitter.com/GSzm0I5AKy</a>
&#8212; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/994840484962095105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29179/londons-mayor-declares-intense-new-knife-control-emily-zanotti%5D"> reported</a>, in April, Khan, responding to the pervasive wave of knife attacks plaguing the city, had <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/heres-what-mayor-doing-tackle-violent-crime">announced</a> that the city was creating a &#8220;violent crime taskforce of 120 officers&#8221; tasked with rooting out knife-wielding individuals in public spaces; roughly $50 million would be given to the Metropolitan Police department to arm officers against knife attacks.
Now, Khan is addressing the dangers of junk food, prompting those fed up with Khan&#8217;s refusal to address more serious problems to respond on Twitter:
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Can someone explain to me what is the point of this man?
&#8212; Teresa (@Queen_of_Gif) <a href="https://twitter.com/Queen_of_Gif/status/994847934398304256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Maybe it&#8217;s all the fried chicken that&#8217;s causing the stabbing epidemic ? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/zombiechicken?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#zombiechicken</a>
&#8212; Steven (@aWalkersw) <a href="https://twitter.com/aWalkersw/status/994848709975379969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Right, God forbid the next person in the UK that is mowed down in the street by a terrorist or suffers an acid attack might have a donut in their hand..
&#8212; WhigsnTwigs (@WhigsnTwigs) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhigsnTwigs/status/994958472847482881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Is this guy actually for real? Total disregard for the violence and crime rises but decides to focus on fast food. Complete waste of space. So out of touch with reality.
&#8212; atechguy (@atechguy263) <a href="https://twitter.com/atechguy263/status/994888820322635780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In pretty sure that junk food adverts are the least of Londons issues right now. If he doesn&#8217;t start doing his job properly then he needs to leave
&#8212; (@JUNIORC4RT1ER) <a href="https://twitter.com/JUNIORC4RT1ER/status/994840873790787587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
&#8212; Fiona Unwin (@fionaunwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/fionaunwin/status/994884245767278593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Cracks Down On Something. You’ll Laugh At What It Is.

President Trump announced that he will officially be visiting the U.K. in July, which will be on <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5925002/theresa-may-phones-donald-trump-to-thank-him-for-standing-with-britain-over-spy-poisoning-but-state-visit-still-off-the-agenda/">Friday the 13th</a> after a stop in Brussels for <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2909108/donald-trump-uk-visit-state-date/">a summit of NATO leaders.</a>
London&#8217;s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, issued a warning to the President on Twitter that he could face angry protests should he come to London.
&#8220;If he comes to London, President Trump will experience an open and diverse city that has always chosen unity over division and hope over fear,&#8221; tweeted Khan.
&#8220;He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.&#8221;
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If he comes to London, President Trump will experience an open and diverse city that has always chosen unity over division and hope over fear. He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.
&#8212; Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/989552253852889088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6152464/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-protest-uk-visit/">The Sun</a>, Khan has previously said President Trump &#8220;<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4042548/sadiq-khan-says-donald-trump-should-not-get-the-full-state-visit-treatment-and-warns-uk-wont-roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-him/">should not get a state </a><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4042548/sadiq-khan-says-donald-trump-should-not-get-the-full-state-visit-treatment-and-warns-uk-wont-roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-him/">visit </a>when he comes.&#8221;
London&#8217;s Mayor Khan has been in the news recently by calling for stricter &#8220;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/09/london-mayor-knife-control/500328002/">knife control</a>&#8221; policies in the city of London, where, despite having a near-complete gun ban, the murder rate has surpassed that of New York City.
Since making an enemy of President Trump, Khan claims he has been victim to abuse online. Most recently, he used his abuse on Twitter as a springboard to instruct Silicon Valley on why they should <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28143/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-tells-silicon-valley-paul-bois">regulate &#8220;hate speech&#8221; online. </a>

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