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Alsharq Tribune- Ahmed Essam
Donald Trump hit out at the UK in his major speech to the United Nations in New York. The US President made bold claims including that London wants to go to "Sharia Law" as he launched a scathing attack on Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Trump said: “I look at London where you have a terrible mayor. A terrible, terrible mayor. And it's been so changed. So changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law.
“But you are in a different country. You can’t do that. Both their immigration and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately.”
In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump claimed the UN was “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders”.
He said: “Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Trump's rant comes after he criticised Khan as "among the worst mayors in the world" and claimed he made sure he was not invited to the banquet he attended at Windsor during his state visit to the UK last week.
Sources close to Khan said he didn't seek or expect an invite, Sky News reports. But Trump used his speech at the UN to reignite his feud with the London Mayor.
It's not clear why Trump raised Sharia Law — Islam's legal system — but there is no evidence of it being administered as a policy in London. In a rambling speech, Trump has already far exceeded the 15-minute limit for each speaker at the General Assembly.
He has been speaking for more than 40 minutes and does not appear to be wrapping up his remarks. Elsewhere, he attacked former US President Joe Biden and claimed he urged Sir Keir Starmer to extract more oil from the North Sea, insisting it was a “tremendous asset” for the UK.
He claimed North Sea oil is “so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there” in the UK. Trump went on: “They’ve given up their powerful edge, a lot of the countries that we’re talking about, in oil and gas, such as essentially closing the great North Sea oil.
“Oh, the North Sea. I know it so well. Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe and there’s tremendous oil that hasn’t been found in the North Sea – tremendous oil.
“And I was with the Prime Minister – I respect and like a lot – and I said, ‘you’re sitting with the greatest asset’.
They essentially closed it by making it so highly-taxed that no developer, no oil company, can go there.
“They have tremendous oil left and, more importantly, they have tremendous oil that hasn’t even been found yet. And what a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom, and I hope the Prime Minister’s listening because I told it to him three days in a row – that’s all he heard. ‘North Sea oil, North Sea’.”
He claimed windmills were “ruining the countryside" in the UK, adding: “I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farmland. But we’re not letting this happen in America.”
