Published 23:23 IST, September 4th 2019

Donald Trump attacks Sadiq Khan in tweet, misspells his name

Donald Trump has misspelled Sadiq Khan's name while calling him 'incompetent' after the London Mayor criticised Trump for playing golf during Hurricane Dorian

Reported by: Tanima Ray
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US President Donald Trump has hit out at Sadiq Khan on September 3 once again after London Mayor criticized him for playing golf during Hurricane Dorian. Trump furr called Sadiq a "terrible mayor" as he condemned London's knife crime rate and claimed people were "afraid to even walk streets." However, what caught most eyes is fact that US President misspelled Khan's surname as 'Kahn' in his tweet.

Trump pulled out of a trip to Poland to commemorate 80th anniversary of start of World War II to concentrate on Hurricane Dorian, but n he also played golf at his private club in Virginia. Later, Sadiq Khan had commented that Donald Trump is “dealing with a hurricane out on golf course."

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Trump's tweet

Trump went on ar of his infamous Twitter rants, this time directed at Sadiq Khan.

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Most of social media, however, focused on misspelling.

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Trump-Khan clash

Controversies initially sparked between pair in 2015. Khan criticized Trump's presidential campaign pledge to ban Muslims from US. He told to UK media that he hoped Trump "loses badly".

On or hand, during his working visit to London on July 2018, Trump claimed that Khan had done "a very bad job on terrorism." President also added that all of horrible things are going on in London, with all of crime. Trump has described Khan as a "stone-cold loser" and "very dumb", minutes before he landed in UK on Air Force One. Khan's office has accused Trump of "childish insults".

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Adding a cherry on top of clashes, nearly a year later, Khan approved a giant inflatable Donald Trump baby blimp to fly over London during President's state visit. 

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Trump has also compared London mayor to his New York counterpart Bill de Blasio, a day before he was due to arrive in city. He stated that he didn't think much of mayor. "He is like Bill," Trump said, adding that he is "shorter" in height than Bill.

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17:40 IST, September 4th 2019