Mr Trump took issue with Mr Khan's statement in the aftermath of the attack, when the mayor said: "Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. MSM [mainstream media] is working hard to sell it!"
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron on Monday called for Donald Trump's state visit to Britain to be cancelled after the U.S. president ramped up his attack on Mr Khan.
United States mayors have backed Sadiq Khan as he leads London in the aftermath of Saturday's terrorist attack while being criticised on Twitter by Donald Trump.
Khan's staff said he was too busy to respond to Trump's tweets. Visiting the scene of the attack, Khan said he was "furious" that the killers had used religion to justify their actions. We need the courts to give us back our rights.
"Maybe rather than the mayor of London attacking, maybe he should do something about it", Trump Jr. said.
POTUS is also taking flack for a tweet that argues for his travel ban: "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough". Police shot dead the three assailants, who were later identified as radical Islamists.
However, gunshot victim and former lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords slammed Trump's tweet and said that "every day we are having a gun debate because every day 90 people in our country die from gun violence". Trump also lashed out at his own Justice Department for seeking a "watered down" version of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a broader directive that was also blocked by the courts.
Trump renewed his criticism of Khan on Monday, a day after attacking his handling of the weekend's terror attack in the city.
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He also announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the deceased and assistance of Rs 1 lakh to the injured. In this file picture farmers protest by scattering potatoes outside Madhya Pradesh Assembly, in Bhopal .
"I commend the strong leadership of the @MayorofLondon as he leads the city forward after this heinous attack", Lew Lukens said on the USA embassy's Twitter account.He also praised the "extraordinary" response from Londoners and emergency services. "We are not going to let Donald Trump divide our communities", Khan told the BBC.
"I've been doing far more important things over the last 24 hours", he says. In an interview with The Sun, May urged Trump to put politics aside.
"Try to imagine the United Kingdom prime minister attacking the Mayor of NYC the day after 9/11", said European Parliament cabinet member Simon O'Connor.
U.S. president Donald Trump has described the London Bridge terror attack as "horrific" and vowed that "this bloodshed must end".
The suspects in the attacks wore fake suicide belts, and mowed people down with a van on London Bridge before getting out and stabbing others.
"We saw on Saturday night some of the people in the health service, some of the consultants, surgeons, were Muslims surgeons, some of them people who'd come to this country from Muslim majority countries", the mayor continued.
"We are the safest city in the world".
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