London Mayor SadiqKhan says President Trump's tweet calling him 'a stone cold loser' is 'the sort of hate I expect from an 11-year-old,' adding 'it's beneath me to do childish tweets and name calling.'
A giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby floats above anti-Trump demonstrators in Parliament Square, London, on June 4, 2019 -- the second day of Trump's three-day state visit to the UK. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images
"Yes it’s fun, but there's a serious message behind this," Shaista Aziz, one of the organizers from the Stop Trump Coalition, told CNN."We strongly object to the US administration's policies on climate change, on climate denial, on women's reproductive rights, on racism, on white supremacy." Other activists have come dressed as gorillas, with signs reading that they"only eat chlorinated chicken" -- a nod to concerns in Britain that a post-Brexit trade deal with the US would mean a decline in food standards for imported produce.
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