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Trump's visit to Britain faces mass protest marches — and a giant baby blimp
NBC "News" ^ | Jun.24.2018 / 4:30 AM ET | Alastair Jamieson

Posted on 06/24/2018 8:51:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Campaigners plan to ridicule the president, whose visit is deeply unpopular.

LONDON — A 20-foot-tall inflatable orange baby with the face of President Donald Trump could float over Britain’s parliament next month, one of many acts of protest planned to coincide with Trump's first visit to the U.K. since taking office.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to march in London, Scotland and elsewhere during his trip, which takes place amid a growing transatlantic trade war and global dismay at the treatment of immigrant families at the U.S. border.

Britain is keen to reinforce its special relationship with Washington as it prepares to leave the European Union, a divorce that will shape the country’s standing in the world.

But Trump's visit has already been scaled down after months of back-and-forth; the president canceled plans to open the new U.S. Embassy in January and his official state visit — opposed in a petition by at least 1.9 million Brits — appears to be on ice.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: babyblimp; blimp; liberaltantrums
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh, Brits will be out-of-control his entire visit. I was there during George W. Bush’s state visit. So ugly I got off the street and went back to my hotel.


21 posted on 06/24/2018 9:16:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

I don’t either. But neither does the Secret Service or President Trump’s own security. They’ll be there.


22 posted on 06/24/2018 9:18:11 AM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So let me get it right....a guy with a dart-gun could shoot down this mini-blimp....right?


23 posted on 06/24/2018 9:19:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe we should require that the U.K. sack those teachers and other government employees from their jobs, or take back the contents of their Embassy in the U.S.A.


24 posted on 06/24/2018 9:20:10 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: pepsionice

Air rifles are legal in the UK.


25 posted on 06/24/2018 9:20:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He shouldn’t go there. I want to know why British intelligence worked against us? Who do they think they are?


26 posted on 06/24/2018 9:20:42 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He needs to take a “Free Tommy Robinson” sign and tell May and the other decrepit, buck toothed imbeciles who refer to themselves as the British “government” that they can forget about American military protection or trade as long as they keep an ethnic British patriot like Robinson in prison.

And if they don’t want him, we can give him a green card tomorrow and fast track his US citizenship because it was Englishmen like him who started and made America.


27 posted on 06/24/2018 9:22:26 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Doogle
Trump's visit to Britain faces mass protest marches — and a giant baby BLIMP


28 posted on 06/24/2018 9:29:25 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Vaquero

..drooling blimp...


29 posted on 06/24/2018 9:31:25 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Babies throwing tantrums.


30 posted on 06/24/2018 9:31:44 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Read the social media in the U.K....Trump is way more popular than let on by the media. A common expression is “Wish we had Trump”.


31 posted on 06/24/2018 9:36:00 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: goldstategop
In the 1980s, they were worked up over Reagan’s standing up to the Soviets.

You are correct sir. I was at RAF Greenham Common in 1983, when the first ground launched cruise missiles arrived. We needed a police escort, just to get through the main gate, because of all the peace mongers outside the gate. These idiots thought they would stop the missiles from arriving, by blocking the main gate. The USAF outsmarted them, by flying it all in on a C-5.
The British cops I met, said they thought these nerds were financed by the Soviet block nations.

32 posted on 06/24/2018 9:37:34 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump should refuse to visit until Tommy Robinson is released from jail.


33 posted on 06/24/2018 9:37:41 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: piytar

Something that I have always been curious about, are our SS agents allowed to carry their weapons?

If there is, God forbid, an incident would they rush the President to one of their substandard hospitals?


34 posted on 06/24/2018 9:38:57 AM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

“I am a Yuge Anglophile (and if there are any Brits left on FR, I love youse guys),”

Here also. Individuals and traditions but not their wretched governments of recent years,


35 posted on 06/24/2018 9:39:03 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sa-teef

If it will help get May fired, Trump should go.


36 posted on 06/24/2018 9:55:17 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We already know that the British are a spineless lot afraid to stand up to the libtard leftist government they elected which is leading them quickly to the precipice. Why should we give a flying fig what they think of our strong willed president? They’re probably just jealous, poor pathetic feebs.


37 posted on 06/24/2018 9:56:07 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BenLurkin

The EU is a scheme hatched by socialists to ensure that all member states would get a permanent socialist government..... but they did not take the will of the people into account.


38 posted on 06/24/2018 9:58:38 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Paladin2

Make the Royalw earn their living.


39 posted on 06/24/2018 10:01:19 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take Michael Savage with you.


40 posted on 06/24/2018 10:01:30 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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