{"id":432065,"date":"2025-09-17T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:07:34","slug":"trump-attends-opulent-state-banquet-with-king-charles-kate-middleton-at-windsor-castle-follow-live-updates-from-u-k-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432065\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attends opulent state banquet with King Charles, Kate Middleton at Windsor Castle \u2014 follow live updates from U.K. state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have received a red carpet welcome from the royal family at Windsor Castle, 20 miles west of London, thousands of protesters have poured into the capital city to register their opposition to the president&#8217;s politics and policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">YouGov <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/topics\/politics\/explore\/public_figure\/Donald_Trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:polling;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">polling<\/a> shows that 70% of U.K. residents have a negative opinion of Trump; 16% have a positive opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crowd gathered near Oxford Circus with signs reading, \u201cDump Trump,\u201d \u201cTrump for Prison\u201d and \u201cNo to racism, No to Trump.\u201d Some played drums in front of Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s residence and office at No. 10 Downing St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Protesters then proceeded to march to Parliament, where speakers, including singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, addressed the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zack Polanski, the new leader of Britain\u2019s Green Party, told protesters that \u201cthis is the moment to challenge everything that Donald Trump stands for; this is the moment to reject the politics of hate and division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Protesters wear masks of politicians during a demonstration of the Stop Trump Coalition group in London. Some of the protesters are holding signs that read: \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dd16f390-93e8-11f0-bbff-d2f674c3d9a4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protesters wear masks of politicians during a demonstration of the Stop Trump Coalition group in London on Wednesday. (Kin Cheung\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Protesters hold balloons depicting President Trump at a rally.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dd1238a0-93e8-11f0-b7eb-684d3d7b4f65.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protesters hold balloons depicting President Trump at a rally during the state visit of the president and first lady Melania Trump in London. (Maja Smiejkowska\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Protesters wear royal costumes during a demonstration of the Stop Trump Coalition group.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dd171aa0-93e8-11f0-997f-7b65319d2521.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protesters wear royal costumes during a demonstration of the Stop Trump Coalition group. (Kin Cheung\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A protester wearing a Trump mask and a costume depicting an inmate jumpsuit at a rally in London \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dd17ddf0-93e8-11f0-9ffa-0948fb91848d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A protester wearing a Trump mask and a costume depicting an inmate jumpsuit at a rally in London on Wednesday. (Kin Cheung\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A demonstrator at a \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dd1238a1-93e8-11f0-beb9-34b0228223c9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A demonstrator at a &#8220;Trump Not Welcome&#8221; protest during the U.S. president\u2019s state visit to the U.K. (Hannah McKay\/Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have received a red carpet welcome from the royal family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,518,13859,1144,1551,712,95638,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-432065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-melania-trump","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-president-trump","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-state-banquet","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115221682351873126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}