Double Trumple: Trump baby blimp may be headed to Australia
DONALD Trump complained it made him feel “unwelcome” in London. Now the Trump baby blimp may follow the President Down Under.
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IT’S the six-metre inflatable orange-faced blimp that mocks the US President as a pouting, scowling infant.
And nobody puts Trump baby in the corner.
If Donald Trump himself does visit Australia later this year, his baby-faced blimp may be right behind him.
With speculation Mr Trump will take up Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s invite to come to Australia after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea in November, protesters are in talks to bring the big balloon to our shores.
It would be part of a countrywide protest they are trying to organise if Mr Trump visits.
Protest organiser Simone White told The Guardian that “the Trump baby blimp has become this kind of globally recognised symbol of opposition to Trump”.
“We have been in touch with the people that made the blimp and they are actually really keen to have it travel around the world,” she said.
“We have been in touch with the people that made the blimp and they are actually really keen to have it travel around the world. They’re excited to get the blimp to Australia. Now we’re just in the process of figuring out how to send it, which won’t be too hard.
“We’re expecting an absolutely enormous protest. We are expecting this could be one of the biggest protests in Australia in a long time. Our goal, like the goal of the protesters in the UK, is to make Trump feel like he is not welcome here.”
The blimp first flew in London recently amid a sea of protests during Mr Trump’s visit to the UK. He spent just hours in London — but long enough to complain that the blimp, approved by London mayor Sadiq Khan, a long-time adversary, made him feel unwelcome.
Mr Trump met Prime Minister Theresa May and the Queen outside the city as the protests swelled around Trafalgar Square in the city.
Trump spent the next weekend in Scotland, where the blimp followed him, and was flown at protests in Edinburgh as Mr Trump played a round of golf and prepared for his infamous meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The balloon, which features a baby Trump in a diaper and holding a cell phone, was created by an activist group in the United Kingdom, which crowdfunded almost $60,000 to create it.
Originally published as Double Trumple: Trump baby blimp may be headed to Australia
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