US presidential candidate also challenges Sadiq Khan ‘to take an IQ test’ after the London mayor described him as ‘ignorant’

Donald Trump has said he might not have a “very good relationship” with David Cameron, after the prime minister described his proposal to ban Muslims from the US as “stupid”.

The US presidential hopeful also sniped at the new London mayor, Sadiq Khan, for comments he made after being elected and warned him: “I will remember those statements.” He challenged Khan to “take an IQ test” after the mayor called him ignorant.



The presumptive Republican nominee, who is likely to go up against Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential election, was speaking to Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) Incredibly strong comments from Trump re Cameron & Sadiq Khan's 'ignorant' jibes. Going to have real ramifications if he wins. @GMB

Last week Khan said Trump was ignorant in his views on Islam and risked harming security on both sides of the Atlantic. Trump said in response: “When he won I wished him well, and now I don’t care about him. Let’s see how he does, let’s see if he’s a good mayor.

“He doesn’t know me, hasn’t met me, doesn’t know what I’m all about. I think they were very rude statements and frankly, tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements.”

Trump also attacked Cameron’s comments on his proposed “Muslim ban”, which the prime minister had called “divisive, stupid and wrong”.



Trump said: “Honestly, I don’t care, it doesn’t matter. It looks like we’re not going to have a very good relationship. I hope to have a good relationship with him, but it sounds like he’s not willing to address the problem either.

“Number one, I’m not stupid, I can tell you that right now, just the opposite. I don’t think I’m a divisive person, I’m a unifier, unlike our president now.”

The Republican indicated his continued support for the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. “A lot of the migration and a lot of the acceptance of people is because of the European Union, I think that’s been a disaster,” he said.



“I think if I was from Britain I would want to go back to a different system. I’ve dealt with the European Union and it’s very bureaucratic. Personally, in terms of Britain, I would say: what do you need it for?”

He rebuffed Barack Obama’s claim that the UK would be at the “back of the queue” when it came to making a new trade deal with the US. “You have to make your own deal,” he said. “Britain’s been a great ally. They’ve been such a great ally they’ve gone into things they shouldn’t have gone into, for example going into Iraq. With me, they’ll always be treated fantastically.

“I’m not going to say front of the queue but it wouldn’t make any difference to me whether they were in the EU or not. You would certainly not be back of the queue, that I can tell you.”

Downing Street said Cameron stood by past criticisms of Trump but added he would seek to maintain the UK’s close relationship with the US even if Trump becomes president.

The prime minister’s spokesman said: “The PM has made his views on Donald Trump very clear. He disagrees with them. He continues to believe that preventing Muslims from entering the US would be divisive, stupid and wrong.

“He has also been clear that he will work with whoever is president of the United States.”

Asked whether the special relationship would continue, the spokesman added: “He is committed to continuing the special relationship.”

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Khan’s spokesman said on Monday morning. “Donald Trump’s views are ignorant, divisive and dangerous – it’s the politics of fear at its worst and will be rejected at the ballot box just as it was in London.

“Sadiq has spent his whole life fighting extremism, but Trump’s remarks make that fight much harder for us all – it plays straight into the extremists’ hands and makes both our countries less safe.”

He said the mayor would not accept Trump’s offer that the two should compare IQ scores. “Ignorance is not the same thing as lack of intelligence.”

Later, Khan himself, speaking to journalists about London’s housing crisis, said he was not interested in “picking a fight” with Trump but he still believed the Republican was ignorant.

“Donald Trump said I would be the exception to his rule, that I would be the one Muslim that would be allowed to go to America,” he said. “The point I made about Donald Trump making me the exception was that there is nothing exceptional about me.

“What about my friends and family, what about business people who want to go and do business in America and happen to be Muslim? What about young people who want to be students in America and happen to be Muslim? What about people who want to go on holiday to America and visit Disneyland? The views of Donald Trump and his advisers on Islam are ignorant.”

A spokesperson for Hillary Clinton attacked Trump for “cast[ing] aside our most important allies when their leaders criticize his dangerous proposals” and said: “Trump continues to demonstrate that his reckless, shoot-from-the-hip approach to foreign policy would make the country and the world far less safe.”