Donald Trump falsely claims Sadiq Khan wants to bring in Sharia law in rambling UN speech

US President Donald Trump falsely claimed that London’s mayor wants to institute Sharia law in a wide-ranging address before the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

Trump said Sir Sadiq Khan, who is Muslim, is implementing the religious and ethical legal system of Islam, which is not true.

‘I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been so changed,’ he said at the UN headquarters in New York City this morning.

‘Now they want to go to Sharia law

A spokesperson for Sadiq said ‘we are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response’.

London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here,’ stated the spokesperson.

Trump ranted on migration ‘destroying’ European countries.

‘Europe has been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before,’ Trump said.

Your countries are being ruined’ because of immigration

He added that it will be the ‘death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately’.

Trump touted his immigration policies, which he said has stopped all migrants from entering the US illegally.

Your countries are going to hell.’

Trump labeled climate change ‘a con job’ and spent about 10 minutes going off about ‘the global warming hoax’.

‘You know, it used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago, in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler,’ he said.

‘So now they could just call it climate change, because that way they can’t miss climate change, because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there’s climate change.’

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

He claimed without providing evidence that climate change forecasts made by the UN and other groups have been incorrect.

‘It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion, climate change,’ he said.

All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.’

Trump said that Christianity is the ‘most persecuted religion on the planet’.

‘Let us defend free speech and free expression. Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today, it’s called Christianity,’ he said.

And let us safeguard our sovereignty and cherished qualities that have made each of our nations so special, incredible and extraordinary.’

Trump started his speech by announcing that the teleprompter was not working and joked that the operator was ‘in big trouble’, setting off laughs from the audience.

He said the US is the ‘hottest country anywhere in the world’ during the session centered around the 80th anniversary of the UN’s founding.

Trump’s speech ran about 57 minutes, which is his longest address ever to the UN Ge