Sadiq Khan responds to Trump’s ‘stone-cold loser’ insult: ‘Sort of behavior I’d expect from an 11-year-old’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan fired back at President Trump on Tuesday after the U.S. leader called him a “stone-cold loser,” saying it’s “the sort of behavior I would expect from an 11-year old.”

{mosads}“It’s for him to decide how he behaves,” Khan told CNN. “It’s not for me to respond in a like manner. I think it’s beneath me to do childish tweets and name-calling.” 

London Mayor Sadiq Khan compared President Trump’s behavior to an 11-year-old child after Trump called him “a stone cold loser” in a tweet.

“It’s not for me to respond in a like manner. I think it’s beneath me to do childish tweets and name-calling” https://t.co/OHpi1FUg41 pic.twitter.com/0B7Yu6cGr5

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 4, 2019

A few hours earlier, Khan slammed Trump as a “poster-boy for the far-right movement around the world” during an interview with Sky News.

London Mayor @SadiqKhan says @realDonaldTrump is “a poster boy for the far-right movement around the world”, and that @theresa_may should tell him his values are ‘not reflected’ by the UK.

For the latest on Donald #Trump‘s state visit, head here: https://t.co/mAPnOdt259 pic.twitter.com/RAPDsg67O5

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 4, 2019

The comments mark the latest in a days-long feud between the two leaders, though the two have sparred since Trump took office in 2017.

Ahead of his three-day visit to the United Kingdom, Trump likened Khan to another of his targets, 2020 Democratic contender New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling Khan the “twin of de Blasio, except shorter.”

In a tweet early Monday, Trump said Khan “by all accounts has done a terrible job” as mayor and has “been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States.” 

.@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly “nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2019 

Khan’s office replied in a statement that Trump represents a “growing far-right threat around the globe.”

Trump has jabbed Khan in the past by criticizing the mayor’s handling of terror-related attacks in London.