Trump: I May Not Have Good Relationship with David Cameron

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The US presidential Republican candidate Donald Trump warned that he may not have a "very good relationship" with David Cameron after the prime minister branded his proposal to ban Muslims from the US as "stupid".

The US presidential hopeful also sniped at the new London mayor, Sadiq Khan, calling him "ignorant" for comments he made after being elected and warning him: "I will remember those statements."

On being elected as London mayor, Khan said Trump was "ignorant" in his views on Islam and he risked harming security on both sides of the Atlantic. "This isn't just about me - it's about my friends, my family and everyone who comes from a background similar to mine, anywhere in the world," Khan said.

Trump said in response: "When he won I wished him well and now, I don't care about him. Let's see how he does, let's see if he's a good Mayor.

"He doesn't know me, hasn't met me, doesn't know what I'm all about. I think they were very rude statements and frankly tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements."

In the interview broadcast on Monday morning, Trump attacked the prime minister's comments on his ‘Muslim ban', which he had called "divisive, stupid and wrong".

Trump said: "Honestly, I don't care, it doesn't matter. It looks like we're not going to have a very good relationship. "I hope to have a good relationship with him, but it sounds like he's not willing to address the problem either.

"Number one, I'm not stupid, I can tell you that right now, just the opposite. I don't think I'm a divisive person, I'm a unifier unlike our president now."

The Republican was also likely to disappoint Cameron with his continued support for the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. "A lot of the migration and a lot of the acceptance of people is because of the European Union, I think that's been a disaster," he said.

"I think if I was from Britain I would want to go back to a difference system. I've dealt with the European Union and it's very bureaucratic. Personally, in terms of Britain I would say, what do you need it for?"

He rebuffed Barack Obama's claim that the UK would be at the "back of the queue" when it came to making a new trade deal with the US. "You have to make your own deal," he said. "Britain's been a great ally. They've been such a great ally they've gone into things they shouldn't have gone into, for example going into Iraq. With me, they'll always be treated fantastically."

"I'm not going to say front of the queue but wouldn't make any difference to me whether they were in the EU or not. You would certainly not be back of the queue, that I can tell you."

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