Mayor Khan seems to be a rock star of the highest order....
London mayor shuts
down
Trump Jr. tweet:
I have more important
things to do
By
Theodore Schleifer and Alanne Orjoux, CNN,
March 23, 2017
A day
after a terror attack in his city left three people dead and as many as 40
wounded, London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he has more important things to do than
respond to a tweet from Donald Trump Jr.
Wednesday,
President Trump's son tweeted, "You have to be kidding me?!" in
response Khan's assertion in 2016 to The Independent newspaper that terror
attacks are "part and parcel" of living in a major city.
"I'm
not going to respond to a tweet from Donald Trump Jr.," Khan told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on
Thursday. "I've been doing far more important things over the last 24
hours."
Donald
Trump Jr. manages the Trump Organization and has no role in the White House,
but he remains an occasional surrogate for his father. The younger Trump also
occasionally calls out the President's political opponents on Twitter, the
venue he chose Wednesday to weigh in on the incident in Britain.
"You
have to be kidding me?!" Trump Jr. tweeted, as he shared a September 2016
article from The Independent, and paraphrased its headline as: "Terror
attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan"
The
article featured Khan's reaction to a bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of
New York. In it, Khan said that the threat of terror attacks is "part and
parcel of living in a big city," and asked Londoners to be correspondingly
"vigilant."
Twitter reacts
Twitter
users took to the platform to criticize Trump for his take on the tragedy.
Labour
politician Wes Streeting -- a party colleague of Khan -- called the President's
son a "disgrace" for capitalizing on the attack for "political
gain."
"You
use a terrorist attack on our city to attack London's Mayor for your own
political gain," he wrote. "You're a disgrace."
A
journalist for UK broadcaster Channel 4 accused Trump of mischaracterizing
Khan's words -- suggesting that he didn't read past the article's lead
paragraph.
"Is
this helpful @DonaldJTrumpJr?" Ciaran Jenkins wrote. "Did you even
read the article before goading London's Mayor during a live incident?"
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