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“Love Trumps Hate” signs aren’t just reserved for the Women’s March.
“Donald Trump is coming to Britain for a state visit. Let’s show him what we think of his divisive, hateful policies!” organizerswrote on the “Together Against Trump” Facebook event page.
The main protest started in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, went on to Theresa May’s residence, at 10 Downing Street, where Trump met the prime minister, before ending in Parliament Square. Over 40,000 people were interested or planned on attending the march, which was one of many scheduled for Trump’s visit.
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This is the second time Trump has visited the U.K. to much protest, and the elaborate welcome (and red carpets) he and his family received from the British royal family has upset Britons and Americans alike.
On Monday, Trump, wife Melania and his daughter Ivanka met with the Queen,Prince Charles, his wife Camila, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry for apalace exhibitat Buckingham Palace.
Later that day, the president and his family (including his four grown children) were honored at a state banquet — just hours after Trump mocked theLondon mayoras a “stone cold loser.”
Protestors throughout London voiced their displeasure of Trump with signs like “Dump Trump,” “Trump: Climate Disaster” “No to Racism,” and “Get Your Hands of My P—.”
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Women wearing the red robes of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novelThe Handmaid’s Talewere in attendance, as well as peopleprotesting Trump’s policies about women’s rights, climate change, and immigration, and his pro-Brexit stance, according toThe Guardian.
While the blow-up Trump has been a central symbol in British protests it also became the target of a lone pro-Trump protestor who videoed herself stabbing the inflatable.
As she walked away, police intercepted the woman, who appeared to be bleeding.
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“Tomorrow’s protest against Donald Trump’s state visit is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he’s attacked in America, around the world and in our own country – including, just this morning, @SadiqKhan,” he wrote on Monday.
“It was love, great love,” said Trump, according to CBS News. “I didn’t see the protesters until just a little while ago and it was a very small group of people, so it was fake news.” (Though video of the large street protests debunks this claim.)
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Mayor Sadiq Khan vocalized his support of the protestors,telling CNN that they have a right to protest,as long as they do so peacefully.
“This is the sort of behavior I would expect from an 11-year-old,” Khan said, per CNN. “But it’s for him to decide how he behaves. It’s not for me to respond in a like manner. I think it’s beneath me to do childish tweets and name-calling.”
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During the interview, Khan explained that Trump has given voice to hard-right views and defended white supremacists, per CNN.
source: people.com
