Heavy police presence<\/strong> <\/p>\nThe coalition questioned why Trump would barely be in London during the visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he knows we\u2019re protesting against him,\u201d it said in a statement ahead of the march.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead, he\u2019ll be hiding and having a sad little carriage ride all by himself in Windsor with a parade that no one will even see. This is because of the power of our protest.\u201d<\/p>\n
London\u2019s Metropolitan Police launched a \u201csignificant\u201d operation, deploying more than 1,600 officers — including 500 brought in from other forces — to ensure the demonstration went ahead safely.<\/p>\n
Protests during Trump\u2019s first state visit in 2019 saw demonstrators floating a giant balloon depicting Trump wearing a nappy.<\/p>\n
London mayor Sadiq Khan allowed the unflattering blimp — which also featured in 2018 rallies against an earlier working visit by the president — to fly, and it was seen as adding to a years-long feud between the pair.<\/p>\n
Khan has been a persistent critic of the American president, writing Tuesday in The Guardian daily that \u201cTrump and his coterie have perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years\u201d.<\/p>\n
It follows after an estimated 150,000 people attended a weekend rally in London organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, when 26 police officers were injured in clashes on the event\u2019s fringes.<\/p>\n
In the article, Khan — the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital when he was first elected in 2016 — accused Trump of \u201cscapegoating minorities, illegally deporting US citizens, deploying the military to the streets of diverse cities\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese actions aren\u2019t just inconsistent with western values — they\u2019re straight out of the autocrat\u2019s playbook,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
A lone counter-protester, surrounded by police, displayed a sign saying \u201cWe Love Trump\u201d, sparking boos as anti-Trump campaigners marched past him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed with signs and shouting slogans, thousands of anti-Donald Trump protesters descended Wednesday on central London to decry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-432487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115222669212163670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432487","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=432487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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