In addition to mass protests, London will greet a July 13 visit by Donald Trump with a giant blimp of a diapered, whimpering Trump tethered to a mooring near Parliament.
The Guardian reports that Nigel Farage and similar are decrying the insult to the great man.
Allowing a crying Trump baby blimp to fly in the sky is, according to Nigel Farage, “the biggest insult to a sitting US president ever”. Now, sidestepping whether JFK being shot in the head with an infantry rifle qualifies as insulting, this is the guy who once described Barack Obama as a “loathsome creature”, which wasn’t exactly a polite hello, was it?
Part of the shtick of the ascendant hard right is to portray the left as humourless, easily triggered snowflakes who hate freedom of expression. And yet when activists crowdsource £17,300 to purchase a blimp of an orange-faced Trump with tiny hands, the right are reduced to embarrassing public temper tantrums. Indeed, one Conservative MEP has even proposed scrapping the post of London mayor in response. [The Muslim mayor of London approved the plan.]
Basically, Farage wants London’s authorities to intervene to ban an anti-establishment protest, which tells you all you need to know about the right’s protestations that they’re sticking it to the man against an authoritarian nanny state. Their pretences were always ludicrous: these are the outriders of an egomaniac plutocrat who slashes taxes on corporate and rich America while dragging screaming children from their parents and locking them up in cages.
Love that British sense of humor, particularly given how much Trump hates to be mocked.
UPDATE: He’ll apparently avoid London proper.
PS: Somebody on Twitter dubbed this “The Crapture”