The mayor of London calls it the fascist Trump

Writing on startup The Observer, Khan condemned the treatment of red carpet being done to Trump, who with his wife Melanie will be the Queen's guest during his three-day stay, which is expected to trigger mass protests in the capital on Tuesday.

Khan said: “President Donald Trump is just one of the worst examples of a growing global threat. The right hand is on the rise worldwide, threatening our acquired rights and freedoms and the values that our liberal and democratic societies have defined for more than 70 years. ”

“Victor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvin in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage here in Britain are using the same divisive rhetoric of 20th century fascists to collect their support and deliver their message, but this time with more sophisticated methods. They are gaining ground, power and influence in countries that would have been unthinkable a few years ago “.

Khan, who has been involved with Trump since becoming mayor in 2016, adds: “This is a man who also tried to exploit the fear of the Londoners after a terrible terrorist attack in our town, reinforced the tweets of an extremist group of British right, denounced as false news powerful scientific evidence by warning of the dangers of climate change and is now trying to intervene shamelessly in the race of the Conservative Party leadership by supporting Boris Johnson because he believes he will enable him to gain an ally on the divided agenda. ”

In May 2016, Trump challenged Khan in an intelligence test, as the mayor said the president's views of Islam were <x0-indirected”. Then, after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough market in 2017, the president accused Khan of “patetic behavior” In July last year Trump said Khan had “done a very bad job for terrorism”.

Protest organisers on Tuesday say they will register their anger against Trump and its broader views, including those in Brexi, which the American president has made clear he supports. Alena Ivanova, a campaign organiser for another Europe, said: Tuesday's “Prothets are not just about Trump, they are about Trumpism a policy of racism and fanaticism. Trump is part of a nationalist global trend, Brex and his fans are his British logo. Like Trump, Brexit is a threat to our fundamental rights and freedoms and promises a future of separation, despair and the right economy “.

At least 250,000 people are expected to arrive in central London at 11 o'clock on a road between Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square, when Trump meets with Theresa May on Downing Street.