London Mayor Sadiq Khan said unlike former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, President Trump is not worthy of the honors of an official state visit.
Khan specifically took issue with the "Access Hollywood" tape, where Trump said how he could just grab women by their genitals and start kissing them since he was famous, and with TV host Billy Bush laughing along in 2005.
When Trump won the presidency in 2016, "an impression [was] being given you could get away with it, that you get a get out of jail card," Khan told British radio talk station LBC on Friday.
Khan said because the United Kingdom has a special relationship with the U.S., they should call out immoral behavior and not have to dignify it.
“Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the U.S.A., but we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet. We shouldn’t have a state banquet,” Khan said. “History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit. President Trump is not in the same class as those two, but it's possible to have a working relationship without the need to have a state banquet and roll out the red carpet."
Trump will visit the U.K. in June. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the left-wing Labour Party, said he would meet with Trump, but declined the invitation to the state dinner and criticized Prime Minister Theresa May for "rolling out the red carpet."
Maintaining an important relationship with the US doesn't require the pomp and ceremony of a state visit. It's disappointing that the Prime Minister has again opted to kowtow to this US administration. I'd welcome a meeting with President Trump to discuss all matters of interest.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 26, 2019
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2019-05-10 22:28:00Z
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