Campaigners plan to plaster Britain with embarrassing posters of Donald Trump – while Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says he “has a nerve” to come here at all
Campaigners planning to plaster Britain with embarrassing posters of Donald Trump in time for his visit to Scotland have raised £10,000 in donations.
And Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the US President “has a nerve” to come to the UK after his “hokey cokey” approach to steel tariffs left UK manufacturing in limbo.
Trump is set to travel to Scotland on Wednesday, and will visit his two golf courses during the trip.
And Keir Starmer is expected to meet with the US President during the visit.
“Trump has nerve coming over to the UK when he’s spent the last year playing tariff hokey-cokey with the British economy,” The Lib Dem leader told the Sunday Mirror.
“But in fairness, he can do less damage on a golf course than in the White House.
“His back of the envelope tariff ‘plan’ is hitting steelworkers hard across the country — and with nothing yet to show for the deal he signed with the Prime Minister, there’s no end in sight for their worries.”
When Trump last visited the UK in 2019, as many as 250,000 protesters lined the streets jeering and booing as he drove past in his presidential limousine, The Beast.
Banners were unfurled by protesters bearing messages including “No-one Likes You”, “Trump=Wasteman” and “No Human Is Illegal”.
And a giant blimp depicting Trump as a giant baby wearing a nappy floated over London during his visit.
And on Thursday a huge poster of Trump with dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein appeared on a bus stop near the US Embassy.
It was the work of campaign group Everyone Hates Elon – who intend to plaster the UK with the embarrassing snap during Trump’s visit, in what it describes as an “act of public service.”
“In less than 24 hours we’ve hit our first target of £10,000 to make sure the photo of trump with Epstein follows him all over the UK, and now we’re going to aim higher,” a spokesperson told the Mirror.
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Organisers say for every £15 raised they’ll add another square metre to a huge banner of the image.
“The Jeffrey Epstein files are tearing apart Trump’s MAGA movement right now with even loyal supporters up in arms. So help us to expose Trump’s crimes, while also fuelling the end of his hateful movement. In just a few weeks we can give him a welcome he’ll never forget.”