{"id":143650,"date":"2025-09-17T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:35:07","slug":"thousands-protest-against-trumps-second-uk-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143650\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest against Trump&#8217;s second UK state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Montgomery and Claudio Solano, from North London, arrived in white protective face masks that read &#8220;Trump stinks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said they had had the masks since Trump&#8217;s first state visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He still stinks,&#8221; Sarah says. &#8220;Everything he stands for stinks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Solano, from Brazil, said he disagreed with both Trump&#8217;s policies and his support for Brazil&#8217;s former right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is disgusting, and I don&#8217;t understand why Britain has to be so cowardly,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the crowd moved, it paused outside Downing Street, which was being protected by officers from Wales and Northern Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the demonstrators carried signs including &#8220;Duck Off Donald&#8221; and &#8220;Feed him to the Corgis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Parliament Square &#8211; where the march stopped &#8211; a number of people took to a stage, starting off with a performance by singer Billy Bragg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other speakers expected to make an appearance include former Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, comedian Nish Kumar, and Green Party leader Zack Polanski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Montgomery and Claudio Solano, from North London, arrived in white protective face masks that read &#8220;Trump stinks&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-143650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}