Donald Trump's state visithas been branded "shameful" and "humiliating" for the UK by a protestor who hit out calling the President a 'toddler'.
TheStop Trump Coalition is set to make sure Trump receives a frosty welcome as thousands of protesters are set to take to the streets of Windsor when he arrives with wife Melania this evening.
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, a member of the group, Zoe Gardner, branded the visit "shameful and humiliating" for the country. She said UK leaders should not be allowing "this toddler" to use the UK as a "theme park".
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Zoe told ITV's Good Morning Britain: “There is an enormous line between a relationship and diplomacy with the United States, and letting this toddler come here and use our country as a theme park and honouring him with a red carpet and a banquet with the King.
“There is miles between those two positions, and what we’re doing today is shameful and humiliating for the UK.”
She noted protesters will be "lining the streets in Windsor" tonight before demonstrators march through London on Wednesday.
Sir Keir Starmer's decision to invite Trump to the UK for a second time was a "catastrophic" failure of judgment, she added.
After his royal reception at Windsor, Trump is being invited to Sir Keir's countryside residence in Chequers - far away from the planned protests.
Mr Trump will be treated to a display of the British Army's Red Devils, who are set to fly into Chequers to keep the erratic President entertained.
He will also be shown special artefacts from Winston Churchill’s life, which No10 said show the wartime PM's "close personal affinity" with America. No10 said the leaders will dine on the "British favourite Dover Sole, served with peas and potatoes for the main and the American classic key lime pie for dessert".
Theresa May's former chief-of-staff told The Mirror the PM should avoid exposing Mr Trump to “big protests” during his state visit. Gavin Barwell, who worked in No10 during the previous state visit of the US President, backed the right to protest, but said ministers should organise events "further away”.
Thousands of people will gather in central London this week to demonstrate against the visit, with campaigners accusing the US leader of denying climate change and enabling genocide. Mr Barwell, a former Tory MP, also accused Nigel Farage of deliberately trying to wind up Mr Trump before he visited to create issues for the government.
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