Trump Post-London Attack: ‘We Must Stop Being Politically Correct’

President Donald Trump urged the world to cease being “politically correct” and “get down to the business of security for our people” in a series of tweets Sunday morning just hours after terror attacks in London left seven dead and 48 injured.

London police officers arrested 12 suspects in connection with the London Bridge and Borough Market attacks, which began Saturday about 10 p.m. local time. A white van reportedly veered off the road before striking a group of pedestrians. Three men then exited the van and began stabbing multiple people. The attacks rocked the U.K. less than two weeks after the Manchester suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert left 22 victims dead and more than 100 injured.

“Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!”

After tweeting Saturday, “Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U.K., we will be there— WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!” the president warned against minimizing the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses to the world.

“We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!'”

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan had issued a statement Sunday morning notifying the people of an increased police presence on the streets, adding that there was “no reason to be alarmed.”

The president also took the opportunity to take a jab at liberal gun-control advocates and highlight why the global conversation must be focused on the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.

“Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!” Trump tweeted.

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For her own part, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May agreed that “enough is enough” after the country experienced three terrorist attacks over the past three months, insisting there has been “far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.”

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“It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth,” May said in a statement. “Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time. But it cannot be defeated through military intervention alone.”

“It is time to say enough is enough,” May added. “Everybody needs to go about their lives as they normally would. Our society should continue to function in accordance with our values. But when it comes to taking on extremism and terrorism, things need to change.”

Noting that the U.K. “needs to become far more robust in identifying and stamping [extremism] out across the public sector and across society,” May admitted this would require “some difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations.”

“But the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism, and we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities, but as one truly United Kingdom,” May said.

Police are continuing to comb through nearby neighborhoods for other suspects in connection with the London Bridge and Borough Market attacks. Officers shot and killed three suspects at Borough Market, all of whom were wearing explosive vests.