---
title: "Sorry, Donald Trump, but London Is Already Radical"
description: "You want radical? Try driving a Pagani Huayra through Marylebone."
date: "2015-12-09"
modified: "2021-05-17"
authors:
  - name: "David Traver Adolphus"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/david-traver-adolphus"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/1216/sorry-donald-trump-but-london-is-already-radical"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Donald Trump"
  - "london"
---

# Sorry, Donald Trump, but London Is Already Radical

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The leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination wants you to be afraid of London. Parts of it, [Donald Trump says](<https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-evokes-radical-vicious-paris-to-defend-muslim-ban-complete-shutdown/>), “are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives.”

We have news for His Hairness: London has always been pretty damn radical. Have you seen central London in high summer? Donald, your people—well-funded men from powerful families, brazenly displaying their wealth and disregard for Western conventions—are here in droves. They drive Paganis. Porsches. Ferraris. Gold-wrapped Range Rovers and crystal-encrusted Mercedes. They are men after your [Lamborghini Diablo VT](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/12681/rented-lamborghini-huracan-spyder-stolen-in-switzerland-by-woman-with-fake-i-d>)-loving heart. And they are, by and large, [the Muslims that you so callously spurn](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3177236/The-lavish-lifestyles-London-s-Arab-playboys.html>).

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Donald, by your own admission, you are loud. You know who else is? Your hypercar-piloting peers in central London. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea, one of the wealthiest burghs in all of Europe, [is enacting a Public Space Protection Order](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/707/even-idling-your-ferrari-can-get-you-arrested-in-the-u-k>)(PSPO) to combat the “excessive level of noise, nuisance, annoyance, danger or risk of harm or injury,” according to *The Telegraph*, brought on by 600-plus-horsepower exhaust bleats. “They often have a lot of money from home and they don’t know what to do with it,” said one local of the well-to-do arrivistes.

Donald, these are your people. They’d probably vote for you, if your hypothetical administration allowed them to bring their cars and money into America.

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If President Trump is not [banned from entering the United Kingdom](<https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003>), perhaps he will one day embrace these brazen scions of real estate magnates, financiers, casino developers and industrialists. Then, and perhaps only then, will he score the international-diplomacy win that has eluded him to date. Local London councillor [Quentin Marshall](<https://www.weatherbys.co.uk/bank-finance/about-the-bank/corporate-information>) says these young men “make a very loud noise?” Well, let them bring the noise, councillor! President Trump is in town, and he’s *not* paying that damn [congestion charge](<https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge>), either!

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