I was in Washington for the inauguration. What I saw shattered Khan's veiled attack on Trump - Winston Marshall

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Winston Marshall

By Winston Marshall


Published: 24/01/2025

- 17:59

Updated: 24/01/2025

- 22:44

OPINION: Political commentator Winston Marshall unravels Sadiq Khan's veiled attack on Trump

On January 20th, London Mayor Sadiq Khan plastered his social media with a series of conciliatory if not vague messages.

“We’re living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by what’s taking place around the world," wrote Sadiq.


Sadiq shared a photo of himself smiling benevolently beneath a Piccadilly Circus LED screen. A screen which beams the assuring “London is and will always be a place for everyone”.

Now cynics will say he has deliberately timed these with Donald Trump’s second inauguration as President of the United States. Kahn's critics will say this is just more vacuous virtue signalling from Mr Khan.

They’ll bemoan his pronouncements as typical progressive platitudes. They will seethe that our “DEI” Mayor is making allusions to geopolitics when violent crime, knife crime and rape and sexual offences have all risen under his mayorship. But not I!

Unlike those critics, I will give our great leader the benefit of the doubt.

But what could he possibly be alluding to?

Washington D.C. is still buzzing and high from Donald Trump’s Victory rally at the Capitol One Arena on Sunday and I'm racking my brains.

Sadiq would’ve loved it. The Village People, chaps, tashes and leather. They tore the roof off. It was old-school diversity. Turbo-diversity. When DEI and S&M went cock in hand.

Sadiq “Diversity is our greatest strength” Khan would’ve been shaking his little booty with joy.

He can’t be referring to Trump’s America.

Sadiq Khan's veiled tweet - was it aimed at Donald Trump?

Sadiq Khan's veiled tweet - was it aimed at Donald Trump?

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What could it be? From my hotel room, the sound of cacophonous patriotism bouncing up from the streets below, I find the answers on the tele.

Israel ceasefire and hostage deal agreed upon, including a British hostage.

Soon-to-be-Sir Sadiq must be overjoyed. This is what Sadiq’s been tweeting about for the last year and a half. A deal forced through by Trump, according to Benjamin Netanyahu anyway.

Sadiq is not doubt thrilled by the immediate impact by America’s returning Commander-in-chief. He can’t be referring to Trump’s America.

After all, thanks to exposure by Elon Musk, Britain’s Pakistani rape gangs scandal - where our country’s most vulnerable children who have been abused, tortured and in some cases brutally murdered - has been given global attention at last.

Thanks to Trump’s team, the American media and X, we in Britain are being nudged towards justice for the girls. No doubt Sadiq will be thrilled.
He can’t be referring to Trump’s inauguration.

After all, a majority of American-Muslims voted for Trump in opposition to the Democrat’s disregard for traditional family values and chaotic foreign policy which has left the middle east, and Eastern Ukraine in rubbles.

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Donald Trump won the election in a landslide victory

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As the swearing in ceremony takes place beneath the Capitol building Rotunda, I laugh to myself. Those silly critics probably think Khan is referring to this. Silly them. Prayers from both a Rabbi and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit.

A glorious display of America’s founding mantra “E Pluribus Unum” - of the many one. A mantra that celebrates diversity but recognises unity as more important. I know Sadiq loves Diversity, but are you to tell me he the idea of unity would offend him? Surely not.

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Now I can’t tell you exactly what he was referring to. But I for one have no reason to believe those posts have anything to do with the return of Donald J. Trump to The White House.

A celebration of diversity, unity, democracy, and patriotism. A rejection of Biden’s disastrous foreign policy and, one hopes, a return to Trump’s first term of relative global peace.

I tell you what. I’ll come back to you.

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