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Protestors project Donald Trump criticism across London
Current affairs | 3 June 2019
Text Finn Blythe

With Donald Trump currently on UK soil, the anti-Brexit protest group Led By Donkeys have unveiled their latest stunt in the heart of the capital: a short video of Boris Johnson’s scathing criticism of Trump’s decision to impose a blanket ban on any Muslims trying to enter the US.

Though we absolutely agree in principle with the former London mayor, the comments provide a stark contrast to the pair’s recent bout of public arse-sniffing, in which the President described Johnson as an “excellent” candidate for the Tory leadership. The full quote included how Johnson was, in the eyes of Trump, “a very good guy, a very talented person” who had been, “very positive about me and our country”.

Well thanks to the efforts of the four recently named Greenpeace activists behind the group, Trump should soon cotton on to a fact we Brits have been aware of for only too long: Boris Johnson is an unctuous and dishonest hypocrite. Ironically, the two share many of these characteristics and would probably get on very well were it not for the back-stabbing shithousery that both excel in.

 

Led By Donkeys didn’t stop there either. Projected onto the Tower of London, a graphic displaying the disparity in UK approval ratings between Trump and Obama should really drive the point home. Though given that his first attempt at a UK state visit was postponed following a national outcry and the threat of riots in the capital, this fact will likely not come as a huge surprise to the president.

In Marylebone meanwhile, the group have seized upon the recent embarrassment involving a US Navy vessel named after former senator and vocal critic of Trump, John McCain. The president had to quell suggestions he had ordered the ship to be hidden and its crew (whose caps bear the ship’s name) to make themselves scarce during his visit. That very cap is now visible on the dome of Madame Tussauds, where it will remain for the duration of Trump’s UK visit.


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