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Trump state visit latest: President attacks Sadiq Khan on flight home - and says he got him blocked from state banquet

Donald Trump has been speaking to reporters on his flight home on Air Force One, and says he asked that Sir Sadiq Khan not be invited to the state banquet last night.

"I didn't want him there," he says. "I asked that he not be there.

"I think the mayor of London Khan is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones..."

Donald Trump's comments on Sir Sadiq Khan mark the latest spat in a long-running feud between the pair going back nearly a decade.

On the eve of the president's state visit, Khan wrote in The Guardian that Trump has "perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics in recent years".

That followed Trump's comments during his summer visit to Scotland that the London mayor was a "nasty person" who has done a "terrible job".

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