SHOTLIST: NEW YORK, US (SEPT. 23, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING TO MICROPHONE NEW YORK, US - SEPT. 23, 2025: US president Donald Trump, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, made specific mention of Europe, alleging that migration to the continent has "been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen." He pointed specifically to London, the city led by Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan, alleging that the UK's largest city wants "to go to shariah law." "But you're in a different country. You can't do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe," he said, alluding to earlier criticism he made of Europe's effort to move away from fossil fuels amid a worsening global climate crisis. "The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It's uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined," he told the leaders. "The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders." Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that he did not want London Mayor Sadiq Khan to attend a UK state banquet hosted in his honor and asked that he not be invited. "I think that the mayor of London, Khan, is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones," Trump told reporters on Air Force One. "He's done a terrible job. Crime in London is through the roof. The mayor of London, Khan, Mayor Khan, has done a terrible job, and on immigration he's a disaster. No, I asked that he not be there. He wanted to be there, as I understand." Trump said he has a "certain pride in London and the UK," saying his mother was born in Scotland. "When I see Mayor Khan do a bad job, the stabbings, and the dirt and the filth, it's not the same. No. I didn't want him there," he said. The comments are just the latest barbs between Trump and Khan following years of acrimony. Khan wrote an op-ed in the Guardian newspaper that was published just as Trump was set to begin his three-day tour of the UK in which he said the US president "and his coterie have perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years." "Scapegoating minorities, illegally deporting US citizens, deploying the military to the streets of diverse cities. These actions aren’t just inconsistent with western values – they’re straight out of the autocrat’s playbook," he wrote.