Trump’s State Visit: The protest last time (2018)
Donald Trump was on a State visit to the UK in July 2018
The decision by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to agree that a giant effigy of Donald Trump as a baby complete with nappy could be floated above central London when the ‘orange moron’ as he has was labelled visited Britain was mostly applauded.
One critic was of course Nigel Farage who continued his own tradition of being entirely ignorant about more or less everything by failing to spot that the parading (and sometimes burning) of effigies of unpopular figures is in fact a great British tradition. Farage claimed that the balloon, crowd funded, was the ‘biggest insult’ to a US President ever.
If so the US President must have got used to insults since effigies of him were paraded during his first term in Panama City, Manilla and Montreal. Indeed it would seem Trump effigies became something of an international phenomenon.
It’s a tradition that needs to be invented again
If and when Trump’s second UK State visit occurs more protest is needed if we are to survive what ever Farage and GB News say
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