President's attacks at UN are rallying cry for far right

Donald Trump has taken to the United Nations to show how pointless Britain's courting of the US president with a state visit really was.

- SAM KILEY

Speaking at the UN’s annual general assembly, he told world leaders that London is heading for sharia law and issued all-too-clippable rallying cries for far-right extremists in Europe. Sir Keir Starmer’s enlistment of King Charles III in a charm offensive with carriage rides around Windsor, state dinners and three days of nonstop flattery delivered nothing but anti-British ranting and un-British extremism.

Mr Trump raged: “Look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law, but you're in a different country. You can't do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe. If something is not done immediately, they cannot this cannot be sustained.”

Yes, the 47th president of the United States said that. He was so shielded from real Londoners that he didn’t set foot on the soil of the capital, but was flown from the US territory of the American ambassador’s residence to Windsor Castle less than a fortnight ago. Still, he’s echoing the nonsense peddled by Oval Office insiders who constantly refer to London having no-go areas, and his friend Elon Musk, who claims the UK is on the brink of civil war.

The views are nonsense. Crime is lower than it has been for a generation in London. But Mr Trump’s views will be clipped up and circulated by right-wing agitators, and one can bet on Nigel Farage, as evidence that Britain is being overwhelmed.

Before mentioning the name of London, Mr Trump said: “I’m not mentioning names. I see it, and I can call every single one of them out. You’re destroying your countries. They’re being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble.