London mayor on state visit: UK 'shouldn't be rolling out the red carpet' for Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday slammed President Trump ahead of his state visit to the United Kingdom next month, saying Trump is not in the “same class” as presidents who made such trips in the past.

“Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn’t have a state banquet,” Khan said during an interview with LBC, a British talk-radio station.

“History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit,” Khan said, referring to former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

“President Trump is not in the same class as those two,” added the London mayor, who has openly feuded with Trump in the past.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/443154-london-mayor-criticizes-plans-for-trumps-uk-state-visit-we

[louis-t]

1. He wants that golden carriage ride.

He's fixated on it. Hand him a pumpkin when he arrives and tell him if he's so great, change this into a carriage and ride off into the sunset. God, I hate that scumbag.

[Scarsdale]

2. The British people LOATHE tRump.

The baby tRump balloons will be flying, and lots of protesters will be there. My niece said she is glad they will be far from London when this disaster shows up. It will be very costly protecting tRump and his pay-for-play "vife"

[sdfernando]

3. If I where Mayor Khan

I would invite the Obamas for an official London visit at the same time as the orange ones visit. Roll out the red carpet for them and see who has the larger crowds.....would make runt the orange pustule into a raging gasbag.....Of course the Obamas have way too much class to actually do that....but I can dream, can't I?

[tblue37]

5. The Obamas are too classy to play one-upmanship games. nt

[matt819]

4. Mayor Khan is 100% right

No state dinner.

No speech to Parliament.

No golden carriage.

Black cab and ploughman's lunch at a pub.

[jmowreader]

14. Not even that

They have McDonalds in London. Throw him a sack of cheeseburgers and give him a tour of the Old Bailey.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. Give him a cold hamberder.

If it's good enough for WH visitors, it's good enough for the Queen to serve to Donald McDonald.

"You want fries with that?"

[Dave Starsky]

16. Actually, he would probably love that.

He eats like a fussy four-year-old. Most kids grow out of that.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Well, at least it would save the Queen, and thus the Brit taxpayers, a pound or four.

*I initially said "pence", but figured I'd leave that dodo out of the conversation.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Mayor Khan: "President Trump is not in the same class as [Presidents Obama and Bush]."

This is probably the first and only time you'll see the words "Trump" and "class" in the same sentence.

[wendyb-NC]

8. I totally agree.

The Orange cotton candy dictator is not deserving of VIP recognition.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. From Trump's Acting Ambassador to Post-Brexit Britain ...

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Ah, if only Khan were at the head of Labour!

[rictofen]

11. Nor for Xi Jinping n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

12. Give IT(evil one) the reception

he has earned. Ignore him, scorn him, throw offal in his path, no respect for a traitor, buffoon, sexual predator and white collar criminal.

[area51]

13. Londoners, please show your rump to Trump.

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[Maxheader]

15. Isn't the u.k.s' president or prime minister or whatever

considered a winger...for the rich? Give the working class just enough to survive>.

[trev]

18. "President Trump is not in the same class as those two"

I wouldn't put Bush in that class, either. He got the literal royal treatment because of his relationship with his pet poodle, Tony Blair. As I recall, the visit was full of faux pas, including the trampling of the palace gardens by his helicopter.