Khan Reluctantly Congratulates Trump Ten Days After Election Win
Sadiq Khan is finally “putting out the hand of friendship” to Donald Trump nearly ten days on from his election win – having first claimed many Londoners would be “fearful” after around 75 million Americans voted for him. Speaking through gritted teeth to LBC’s Chief Bore James O’Brien, the Mayor of London insisted he would generously give Trump “the benefit of the doubt“. Trump must be grateful…
“…Clearly, we know from his record when he was President between 2016 and 2020 and also some of the things he’s campaigned on, there are anxieties that Londoners have, which my job as the Mayor is to articulate those… I think the three things that even Donald Trump’s supporters would agree with is his policies are protectionist, nativist, and unilateralist…
Now JD Vance, Elon Musk and others may have changed their mind about Trump, I haven’t but I’m giving the President-elect the benefit of the doubt and let’s hope, fingers crossed, this President, during this term, is different from the last one…”
In fairness to Sadiq, he’s hardly the only one in Labour who’s had to eat humble pie since last Tuesday…
