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Bradley Jolly & Hayley Watson

Donald Trump says UK hospitals 'a sea of blood' after knife crime rise

Donald Trump claimed that 'everybody is being stabbed' after the rise in knife crime in the UK.

Three days into his state visit, the US President made the claims during an interview with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain.

In the interview, which aired this morning, the world leader said: "In London you have stabbings all over.

"I read an article where everybody is being stabbed.

"They said your hospital is a sea of blood, all over the floors."

Trump chatted to Piers Morgan in an interview (ITV)

His made his comments just days after 13 people were killed when a crazed gunman went on a rampage in Virginia Beach in the latest mass shooting in the US, says the Mirror Online.

The tragedy was the 140th mass shooting in the US this year, which a crowdsourced database defines as four people or more being killed.

It is not the first time the billionaire has criticised the knife crime in the UK and the NHS in the past.

Last year, he described a "once prestigious" hospital in London as "a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds".

Speaking at a public conference in Texas, he said: "I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital, right in the middle, is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds.

"Yes, that’s right, they don’t have guns, they have knives. And instead there’s blood all over the floors of this hospital. They say it’s as bad as a military war zone hospital.

"Knives, knives, knives."

Knife-related murders are at their highest level in England and Wales since records began in 1946.

Some 285 people were killed by knives and sharp instruments in 2017/18.

In that financial year, about 12,000 knife crime offences happened in London.

Knife crime in the capital has risen 24% since 2015/16.

The US President also discussed global warming, international relations, and Theresa May in the candid interview with Piers Morgan.

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