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Donald Trump has waded further into the UK’s various political storms, slamming immigration policy and reiterating his determination to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion.
The US President also took aim at Mayor Sadiq Khan, making the bizarre claim that Londoners were being ‘stabbed in the ass’.
He urged Sir Keir Starmer to deploy the army along the coast, saying Britain ‘won’t have a country left’ unless illegal migrants are deported.
An emboldened Trump was speaking to GB News, days after the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie resigned over his edited speech, which the broadcaster has apologised for.
The businessman-turned-politician said his former administration was ‘very tough at the border’ and ‘would take people immediately back’ as the US was flooded with ‘millions’ of illegal arrivals.
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He suggested that Britain ‘could do the same thing’, before going on to say: ‘If you don’t get them out, you’re not going to have a country left.’
Home Secretary Shabna Mahmood insists the government is tackling illegal migration.
New figures show nearly 50,000 illegal migrants have been removed or deported from the UK since Labour won power in July 2024 — which it said was a 23% increase compared to the previous 16 months.
Republican Mr Trump also took aim at London Mayor Sadiq Khan in yesterday’s interview.
In a bizarre moment, he even claimed the capital city is a place where ‘people are being stabbed in the ass or worse’.
During his rant, Mr Trump added: ‘Sadiq Khan is a terrible mayor. He’s a disaster.’
The President said: ‘He’s a terrible, terrible mayor. Look at the crime you have in London.
‘My mother loved London. She loved that city. She would always talk about it. That was a different London than you have today.
‘Today you have people being stabbed in the ass or worse.’
On Friday, the President told reporters he still intended to sue the BBC over an edited clip featured in a Panorama documentary about his election loss in 2021.
During his original address, he told supporters: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.’
More than 50 minutes later in the speech, he said: ‘And we fight. We fight like hell.’
In the Panorama programme, the clip shows him as saying: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.’
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