The mayor of London, Khan, struck the accusation of Trump’s `Sharia” at the UN

President Donald Trump accused London this week of wanting to “go to Sharia law”, drawing an ardent response from the mayor of the city.

Trump remarked during his speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, during which he said: “Europe is in serious difficulty”.

“They were invaded by a force of illegal foreigners as if no one has ever been seen before. Illegal extraterrestrials are pouring out in Europe … And no one does anything to change it, to bring them out. It is not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they do absolutely nothing,” Trump told world leaders.

Trump rumbles European nations on immigration policies during the major United Nations address

“And I must say that I look at London where you have a terrible mayor. A terrible and terrible mayor. And that has been so changed, if changed. Now, they want to go to Sharia law, but you are in a different country,” added Trump, referring to the Islamic legal system which draws its principles from Quran and Hadith, a collection of teaching of Prophet Muhammad.

“You can’t do this,” said Trump. “Immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately, they cannot – that cannot be maintained.”

President Donald Trump called the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, “terrible” on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, during his speech by the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; Jason Alden / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Asked about the comments, the mayor of London Sadiq Khan said to the BBC, “I think President Trump has shown that he was racist, he is sexist, he is misogynist and he is Islamophobic.”

“People wonder what it is about this Muslim mayor who directs a liberal, multicultural, progressive and successful city, which means that I seem to live without rent in the head of Donald Trump,” continued Khan.

“I think that one of the advantages of having a special relationship with the United States is obviously with regard to trade, regarding the alliances of the ministry, with regard to other areas, we work near each other, but that should also mean that you have the confidence to call them when they are wrong. I think that President Trump is wrong in many ways,” he also said.

The world leaders laugh, scratched themselves while Trump explodes from the UN on the climate, Ukraine, Gaza in the General Assembly

Trump unleashed at the United Nations in an address before the General Assembly. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

Europe has dealt with a major influx of people from Africa and the Middle East in recent years, criticisms raising concerns about everything, resources to cultural assimilation.

“The UN is supposed to stop the invasions, not create them and not finance them,” Trump also said during his speech on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump sets up an escalator at the United Nations on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty Images)

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Trump compared the situation to the United States’s own border crisis under the Biden administration, which illegally led millions of people entering the country.

Caitlin McFall of Fox News Digital, Cameron Arcand and Diana Stancy contributed to this report.