London’s new Muslim mayor ‘hoping’ Trump loses

London’s first Muslim mayor is rooting against Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

“I’m hoping that he’s not the guy who wins,” Sadiq Khan told reporter Christiane Amanpour in a CNN interview released Wednesday.

{mosads}“My message to Donald Trump and his team is that your views of Islam are ignorant,” he said. “It is possible to be a Muslim and live in the West. It is possible to be a Muslim and love America.

“I have family members that live in America, and we have often been to America on holiday. My kids used to love Disneyland — I’m scared of some of the rides — but they used to love going to Disneyland,” he continued.

London elected Khan last Friday, making the son of Pakistani immigrants the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital.

After his victory, Khan criticized Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., saying it would keep him from visiting one of Britain’s key allies.

“I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors,” Khan told Time magazine last week.

“If Donald Trump becomes the president, I’ll be stopped from going by virtue of my faith, which means I can’t engage with American mayors and swap ideas,” he added of Trump.

Trump on Monday said that he would grant Khan an exception, adding that he hopes the mayor does well.

“There will always be exceptions,” he told The New York Times. “If he does a good job, and frankly if he does a great job, that would be a terrific thing.”

Khan said in Wednesday’s interview that he rejects Trump’s offer.

“I’m not exceptional, so for Donald Trump to say, ‘Mayor Khan can be allowed but not all the rest’ is ridiculous because there are business people here who want to do business in America who happen to be Muslim,” the Labour Party member said.

“There are young people here who want to study in American who happen to be Muslim. There are people who want to go on holiday in America who happen to be Muslim.”