{"id":139641,"date":"2026-08-03T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/139641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:06:12","slug":"trump-and-putin-stunt-becomes-amsterdam-pride-talking-point-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/139641\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-And-Putin Stunt Becomes Amsterdam Pride Talking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigantic inflatables of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Russian President Vladimir Putin puckering up drew attention during a Pride parade in the Netherlands this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Video shared online showed revelers dancing to electronic music aboard a boat taking part in Amsterdam\u2019s WorldPride 2026 Canal Parade as the towering figures were inflated.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the pair appeared to face off, each holding flowers behind their backs.<\/p>\n<p>They were then moved together to create the illusion that they were kissing.<\/p>\n<p>Those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/08\/01\/pride-lgbtqi-amsterdam-canals-security-jetten\/2abe8dc0-8da2-11f1-8912-d71e69d679d7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"behind the installation\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a703ae7e4b03026f4f034c2\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/08\/01\/pride-lgbtqi-amsterdam-canals-security-jetten\/2abe8dc0-8da2-11f1-8912-d71e69d679d7_story.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">behind the installation<\/a>, which was titled \u201cThe Kissing Couple,\u201d said they did not want \u201cto provoke, but to pause power for a moment and highlight something human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly praised Putin, who has overseen sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Russia. The duo has previously been depicted kissing, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-kissing-street-art_n_573994f2e4b060aa781aad29\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"in a street mural\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a703ae7e4b03026f4f034c2\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"573994f2e4b060aa781aad29\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a street mural<\/a> that appeared ahead of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gigantic inflatables of Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin puckering up drew attention during a Pride parade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,184,200,6420,1887],"class_list":["post-139641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-donald-trump","tag-netherlands","tag-pride","tag-vladimir-putin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117031258542430348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}