Donald Trump has just been disowned by the White House in his bid to become US president.
The White House said his call for America to ban Muslims from entering the country has led to officials asking Republicans to reject him immediately.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump’s campaign had a ‘dustbin of history’ quality to it and said his comments were offensive and toxic.
Earnest said other Republican presidential candidates, who have pledged to support the person who eventually wins their party’s nomination, should disavow Trump ‘right now’.
It comes after Trump claimed some parts of London are so radicalised the police are scared to go there.
Addressing criticism to MSNBC, he said: ‘Paris is no longer the same city it was.
‘They have sections in Paris that are radicalised, where the police refuse to go there. They’re petrified. The police refuse to go in there.
‘We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.’
It hasn’t gone down well. Officials have wasted no time in condemning his comments, with Boris Johnson branding them ‘ridiculous’.
By Metro
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