Thousands protest against Trump’s second UK state visit

Thousands of people gathered at Portland Place in the center of London to a protest against US President Donald Trump’s second state visit.

Organizers stopped the Trump Coalition, a group with more than 50 trade unions and charities, and started marching towards Whitehall around 15:00 of BST.

Some protesters carried signs with slogans written to them, including “no to racism”, “No to Trump” and “Stop Stoping Israel”.

Others carried smaller versions of 20FT Trump Baby Brimp, which floated from the crowds during the protests against the first state visit of the President in 2019.

Metropolitan police said that more than 1,600 police officers, including 500 of the other forces, have been deployed.

The force, Deputy Commissioner Louise Puddefoot, said the “another busy day” for civil servants. This protest comes only days after the unification of the kingdom protest.

The authority added that the police are “in close contact” with the organizers and that they all want them to be “thoughtful to the local society” and reduce it at a minimum.

The Stop Trump coalition includes groups from climate campaigns to anti -racist groups and pro -Filestin organizations.

Before the march, the coalition spokesman said: “A government that will submit to Trump and racism is a government that will open the door to fascism.”

Although Trump will not visit parliament, protest groups encouraged “defeating Trumpism politics” and “an alternative, democratic vision based on peace, social justice and international cooperation”.

In the midst of the crowd that began to gather near BBC Broadcasting House, people told the BBC why they were there and prepared a long list of complaints against the US president. They said they wanted to send a message that they found him “desperate” and that he was not welcomed.

Reverend Poppy Hughes, who asked questions about those who said Vicars should be apolitical, said, “Jesus has preached peace and compassion, and that’s why I’m here.”

Zoe Gardner, a political commentator and one of the organizers of the protests on Wednesday, said Trump “represents everything we hate”.

“We want our government to show a little spine and to be a little proud and to represent this great disgust in Donald Trump’s policy in the United Kingdom.”

Wimbledon’s climate campaignist Auriel Dowty Glanville said that the president shows that he believes that he was “climate denial” and believes that the climate change was “the biggest threat that encounters us in the world”.

He called the second state visit “terrible”, “everything is about the trade agreement.”

Sarah Montgomery and Claudio Solano from North London came to white protective face masks that read the “Trump smell”.

They said they had masks since Trump’s first state visit.

“It still smells, Sarah says Sarah. “Everything that means smell.”

Mr. Solano from Brazil said he did not participate in both Trump’s policies and his support for former Brazil’s right -wing leader Jair Bolsonaro.

“This is disgusting and I don’t understand why England should be so coward.”

As the crowd moved, he stood outside the Downing Street, protected by Wales and civil servants from Northern Ireland.

Some of the demonstrators carried signs such as “Duck Off Donald” and “feed him to Corgis”.

In Parliament Square, where the march stopped, a few people started with the performance of singer Billy Bragg.

Other speakers who are expected to appear include former Labor Party MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, comedian Nish gambling and Green Party leader Zack Polanski.

A small crowd of protesters gathered in Windsor in the afternoon on Wednesday and spent the Trump day in front of the state feast with the royal family.

Amy Tisi said that Trump protested when Trump the last time he visited the BBC and was “important to do an attitude”. He said he questioned whether the journey was to fuel the ego of the “size and scale”.

Four men arrested The images of President and late prisoned pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were reflected to Windsor Castle when Trump came to England on Tuesday.

He also said Trump was the “greatest president” of a man wearing a Davy Crochett hat in Windsor on Wednesday. His words were greeted with a Boos choir from the parts of the crowd.

Additional reports by Alex Smith at Windsor