Islamic State spokesman insults Trump, calls him ‘an ugly idiot’

An Islamic State group spokesman called for countries attacking it to be targeted, in an audio recording in which he also insulted US President Donald Trump.

The recording posted on jihadist sites online was Abulhassan al-Muhajer’s first since December.

Since then, IS has been under sustained assault in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and also in Syria.

Muhajer said the “bankrupt” United States was run by “an ugly idiot who doesn’t know what Syria is, what Iraq is, and what Islam is”.

He said Washington should “apologise for the past and retreat” or face consequences, urging what he called “the caliphate’s soldiers” to attack “the criminal infidels”.

Trump has made defeating Islamic State a priority of his presidency.