Trump misleadingly suggested that Khan was downplaying the act of terrorism, which saw a van crash into pedestrians on London Bridge before three men exited the vehicle and attacked several people in nearby Borough Market.
Trump renewed his criticism of Khan on Monday, a day after attacking his handling of the weekend's terror attack in the city.
Khan had told London's citizens that there was no cause for alarm about increased police presence in the city in the coming days following an attack on the London Bridge that killed at least seven people.
"As the mayor of London I want to send a clear message to the sick and evil extremists who commit this disgusting crimes; we will defeat you".
May has said Khan is doing a good job, echoing public sentiment across London.
In fact, Trump's tweets contradicted statements made by the USA embassy in London, resulting in the acting ambassador to the UK, Lewis Lukens, receiving a barrage of online abuse from Trump supporters.
Addressing Trump's proposed plan to bar millions of people from Muslim majority countries from entering the United States, which the president said had been vindicated by the attacks, Khan told the AP he found the idea antithetical to American values. You stand with them in times of adversity but you call them out when they are wrong. Like his dad, he doesn't care about what people actually think and say but casually ignores, denies, or misrepresents facts to further his agenda.
Jon Favreau, Mr Obama's top speech writer, wrote of Mr Trump's second Khan-related tweet: "This is the most disgusting lie and he is just an bad human being".
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Monday said Trump was stressing the importance of national security and maintained the president had not misrepresented what Khan had said.
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Trump launched an attack on the London Mayor, while apparently misconstruing a statement made by him post the incident.
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Trump later branded Khan's statement on the terror attack as a "pathetic excuse".
The war of words was the latest episode in a long simmering conflict between Trump and Khan, a Muslim who was elected as London's mayor in May 2016.
"This is a time for us to reach out to the world, to understand more about what is happening - not just in our own country, but indeed across the globe", Mrs. Clinton said.
Mrs May has said the President was "wrong" to criticise Mr Khan. "Two weeks later he's proven to be right", Trump Jr. said.
"I'd rather he didn't come, but if he does, I'd like his vile Tweets juxtaposed against whatever he's been coaxed to read off an autocue", Rowling, celebrated for her Harry Potter books and a frequent critic of Trump, wrote on Twitter. "President Trump's attack on him is unacceptable".
Khan's staff said he was too busy to respond to Trump's tweets.
"We've been working with Sadiq Khan".
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