He was no more polite about London at the time, telling MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “London and other places… are so radicalized that the police are afraid for their own lives.”
A spokeswoman for then-British Prime Minister David Cameron said Trump’s comments about Muslims were “divisive, unnecessary and simply wrong.” Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, then mayor of London, said Trump’s comments about the dangers of London were “ill-informed” and “utter nonsense”.
Johnson added that “the only reason I wouldn’t go to parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.” Johnson later changed his tune about Trump, saying earlier this year that there was “little doubt” that the world felt safer and more stable while Trump was in office.
In January 2016, when Trump was first running for president, he said that living in Brussels was like living in “hell” due to the alleged lack of “assimilation” of the Muslim population.
“You go to Brussels – I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, it’s so beautiful, everything is so beautiful – it’s like living in hell right now,” he said. he said in a television interview with FOX Business Network.
In 2018, while president, Trump asked during an immigration meeting with US lawmakers why the US was admitting people from “shithole countries” – and although the White House did not did not deny that Trump used the phrase, the man himself tweeted that “that was not the language used.”
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