Thousands protest against Trump in London, but fewer in number than in 2018

Thousands of people protested in central London on Tuesday against the pompous state visit of the United States President Donald Trump to the United Kingdom, but far fewer than the tens of thousands who gathered for oppose his visit last year.

Demonstrators displayed spirited and sometimes rude posters during what the organizers called "Resistance Carnival" in Trafalgar Square, while British Prime Minister Theresa May was talking to the president in Downing Street, a short distance away.

There was a festival mood in protest, where opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn would speak later.

Among the British, Trump is one of the best-known and least-loved foreign leaders. Only 21% of the people interviewed by YouGov have a "positive opinion" about them, and among women this figure shrinks to 14%.

The tone of the protest was given by a large statue that showed Trump in a golden bathroom with his trousers at his ankles, and the signs said, "Trump, stay away! We are quite capable of messing with our own politics", "Do not Overcome Racism "and" Lock him in the tower. "

"Trump is an ignorant 70-year-old who has always lived as a privileged," said Anna Fenton, a 23-year-old London-based marketing manager whose poster said, "Hey, where do I start?"

Anna said she was protesting to show solidarity with "the people whom Trump's language and policies have harmed," including women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.

The crowd of several thousand people was much smaller than the tens of thousands who protested when Trump visited the country as president for the first time in July 2018.

There were also small groups of supporters. Some men wearing red caps with the slogan "Make America Big Again" walked through the crowd. Trump's supporters have said that the protests against him are an insult to Britain's most powerful ally.