By: LekshmiSajeev
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has reignited his war of words with Sadiq Khan, blaming the London mayor for the hacking of the Metropolitan Police’s Twitter account.
On Friday night (19), hackers broke into the Twitter account of London’s Metropolitan Police and tweeted a series of strange messages.
While some messages were offensive in nature, others mocked the agency. One tweet read: “what you gonna do phone the police?”
The messages have since been deleted.
Following the incident, far-right commentator Katie Hopkins took to Twitter to say the police had “lost control of London streets” and “lost control of their Twitter account too.”
Trump retweeted the message and added added: “With the incompetent mayor of London, you will never have safe streets!”
With the incompetent Mayor of London, you will never have safe streets! https://t.co/pJqL1NjyvA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2019
Trump and Khan have been engaged in a war of words since 2015.
Tension escalated during Trump’s state visit to the UK in June, where he called Khan a “stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London.”
“Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom.
“He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.
“Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job – only half his height.”
In response to Trump’s tweets, a spokesman for the London mayor said: “This is much more serious than childish insults which should be beneath the president of the United States
“Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of growing far right threat around the globe.”
