A robotic likeness of President Trump on a golden toilet in Trafalgar Square on June 4. (Photo: Tim Ireland/AP)
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of protesters greeted President Donald Trump’s U.K. visit with anger and British irony Tuesday, crowding London’s government district while the U.S. leader met Prime Minister Theresa May nearby.
Feminists, environmentalists, peace activists, trade unionists and others demonstrated against the lavish royal welcome being given to a president they see as a danger to the world, chanting “Say it loud, say it clear, Donald Trump’s not welcome here.”
“I’m very cross he’s here,” said guitar teacher Sarah Greene, carrying a home-made sign reading “keep your grabby hands off our national treasures” under a picture of one of Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis.
“I find him scary. My sign is flippant and doesn’t say the things I’d really like to say.”
A day of protests began with the flying of a giant blimp depicting the president as an angry orange baby, which rose from the grass of central London’s Parliament Square.
One group came dressed in the red cloaks and bonnets of characters from Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which is set in a dystopian, misogynist future America.
Demonstrators filled Trafalgar Square and spilled down Whitehall, a street lined with imposing government offices.
Many paused to photograph a robotic likeness of Trump sitting on a golden toilet, cell phone in hand. The robot caught the attention of passers-by with its recitation of catchphrases including “No collusion” and “You are fake news.”
Protesters gathered in central London. (Photo: Tim Ireland/AP)
The "Statue of Liberty" near the "Trump Baby" blimp in central London. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)(Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Trump-masked man demonstrates against the president in Parliament Square. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Protesters line a barrier on Whitehall during a demonstration against President Trump. (Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)
A stack of Donald Trump toilet paper on a London street. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
A real baby nearby the "Trump Baby" blimp in Parliament Square. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Man carries a placard as people gather to march through central London to demonstrate against the state visit of President Donald Trump (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
People hold placards with anti-Trump messages in central London. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Protesters dressed in inflatable Donald Trump baby costumes stand in the rain at Parliament Square.(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Mime artists dressed in red with white face paint during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the U.K. (Photo: Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images)
A male mime artist with a placard reading "Make Orwell Fiction Again" during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the U.K. (Photo: Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images)
Anti-Trump demonstrators march through central London. (Photo: Tim Ireland/AP)
Women dressed as Handmaidens during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo: Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images)
People in central London demonstrate against President Trump. (Photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Demonstrators protest President Trump along Whitehall in London. (Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)
Climate-change and anti-Trump protesters in central London. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images)
Anti-Trump protesters and the "Trump Baby" blimp in central London. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images)
A placard depicting President Trump and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage in central London. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images)
Demonstrators protest the visit of President Trump along Whitehall in London. (Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mike Lindell says it would help him prove to the world his belief that the recent presidential election was rigged. He also says some major retailers are dropping his company's products.
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Armenia has returned all Azeri prisoners who were captured during last year's conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, but the process with Armenian prisoners has been held up, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. The six-week conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh was brought to a halt in November by a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement under which Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces were expected to exchange all captives. Armenia has said that many of its prisoners of war remain in Azerbaijan, a problem it has raised with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group.
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Turkey has ordered the arrest of 238 people in an operation targeting suspects in the military allegedly linked to a Muslim preacher who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. The operation, covering 60 provinces, was part of a four-year-old crackdown against the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Anadolu said 160 people had been detained in the latest police raids, ordered by prosecutors in Izmir.
Pakistan’s prime minister reacted angrily Monday to media reports of a text exchange between an Indian TV anchor and a former media industry executive that suggests a 2019 Indian airstrike inside Pakistan was designed to boost Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chances for reelection. Imran Khan took to Twitter to respond to Indian media reports of an exchange on the WhatsApp messaging service between popular Indian TV anchor Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta, the former head of a TV rating company.
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Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock early Sunday. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock the night before.
"This is also a desire that's shared by other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries," he told Bloomberg TV https://bloom.bg/369WLz9 in an interview. The Qatari foreign minister added that his government was supporting ongoing discussions between Iran and South Korea to secure the release of an oil tanker seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard early this month.
