Trump calls London Mayor Sadiq Khan a ‘disaster’

US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Saturday on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, backing a right-wing British columnist who has been widely accused of Islamophobia and once called migrants “cockroaches.” Trump attached his latest denunciation of the mayor to a retweet by Katie Hopkins about crime in “Khan’s Londonistan” -- using a term widely perceived as a pejorative reference to the British capital’s Muslim population and Khan’s Pakistan ancestry. “LONDON needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster - will only get worse!” Trump wrote in response to Hopkins’ tweet, later adding the mayor was “a national disgrace who is destroying” the city. The feud between Khan and Trump began when Khan criticized Trump’s travel ban on people from certain Muslim countries. Since then the duo have launched several attacks on each other.