Over 250,000 strong protesters march against Trump’s UK visit

The city of London has been flooded with scores of demonstrators numbering over 250,000 who are protesting against the four-day visit of US President Donald Trump.

Reports say hundreds of thousands of people greeted the US president’s visit in the UK with a “Carnival of Resistance” as Prime Minister Theresa May gave Trump a “red carpet welcome”.

The demonstrators marched through central London, chanting slogans and waving banners such as “Traitor hater would be dictator”.

“God save the Queen from an orange tangerine,” read another.

Trixie Monks, an ex-Navy servicewoman from the US state of Tennessee, was among the crowd. She said she moved to the UK as soon as Trump got elected US president in late 2016.

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“We got out of America … and the last thing we want is for him to start intruding on our lives here when we finally got some peace,” she told Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, hours after landing in London marking his first visit to Britain, Trump blasted May’s Brexit plans.

In damaging remarks that could widen domestic criticism of her plans, Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if London went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union.

According to Trump in an interview with Sun newspaper, Britain’s top-selling tabloid published late on Thursday, Trump said May’s plans for a business-friendly Brexit would leave it too close to the EU to allow a new trans-Atlantic trade deal to be struck.

 

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