Following the stupendous success of Trump Baby's debut flight over Parliament, we are now in the process of organising a world tour for the lighthearted yet insulting inflatable. Trump Baby will follow the US President around the world on his overseas itinerary, trolling Trump from the skies as a constant reminder of how the world sees his grotesque presidency. Any donations received from here on in will go towards supporting Trump Baby's new diplomatic mission! You can read the description for our successful crowdfunder below. 
 
 Make Trump Baby Fly 
 
 Donald Trump is a big, angry baby with a fragile ego and tiny hands. 
 
 He's also racist demagogue who is a danger to women, immigrants and minorities and a mortal threat to world peace and the very future of life on earth. Moral outrage is water off a duck’s back to Trump. But he really seems to hate it when people make fun of him. 
 
 So when Trump visits the UK on Friday the 13th of July this year, we want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him. That's why a group of us have chipped in and raised enough money to have a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies over Parliament Square during Trump's visit. 
 
 We now have easily enough money to make him fly on the 13th! Any donations to the crowdfunder from here on in will go to support the Trump Baby World Tour! See updates! 
 
 
 
 
 
 Getting Trump Baby aloft from a single location for just one day will cost over £700 for enough helium to fill a blimp this size - a target we smashed within hours of opening our crowdfunder. We will also now be able to fly Trump Baby in a separate location closer to the big orange sex pest himself* during his visit, guaranteeing that he won't be missed by the President and his entourage. 
 
 If we are unable to obtain consent to fly Trump Baby from Parliament Square Gardens, we may need to be creative about finding a suitable alternative location - and that could cost more money too. Trump Baby needs an area of at least 5m square to safely inflate and take off from. If you know anyone with a large garden in central London, please get in touch! 
 
 We are a group of friends with, between us, a lot of experience of doing this sort of thing successfully. If anyone can blow up Trump Baby, we can. 
 
 *no details have yet been released on the President's UK itinerary, but we are keeping a close eye on this. ||||| 250,000 people marched in London on 13 July 2018 in opposition to Donald Trump’s UK visit – Britain’s biggest demonstration for a decade – and tens of thousands protested in 50 towns and cities across the country. 
 
 Let’s keep the carnival of resistance rolling against the divisive politics of Trumpism. Keep resisting about the things that you care about. ||||| President Trump will meet Queen Elizabeth II during his long-delayed first trip to Britain next month, the United States ambassador to Britain said on Wednesday, an encounter that could reignite furor among British critics who oppose his deeply divisive policies and his polarizing personality. 
 
 The ambassador, Robert Wood Johnson, announced the planned encounter in an interview with Sky News, the British broadcaster. 
 
 He said while the details were still being worked out, they include a meeting with the monarch. 
 
 “Yes, yes, I mean, he has to see the head of state,” Mr. Johnson said. “Putting his foot on British soil, it’s Job 1, it’s very important, very symbolic. Meeting Her Majesty is the most important thing, because she’s the head of state, and from then on, it’ll be what the president wants to do.” 
 
 Mr. Trump is said to have described his mother, a native of Scotland, as a “big fan” of the queen, according to The Sunday Times of London. ||||| Image copyright Andrew Aitchison Image caption Campaigners tried out the inflatable baby at Martin Luther King adventure playground in Islington 
 
 Plans to fly a giant inflatable figure depicting Donald Trump as a baby over London during the US president's visit have been approved. 
 
 Mr Trump is due to meet Theresa May at 10 Downing Street on 13 July. 
 
 Campaigners raised almost £18,000 for the helium-filled six-metre high figure, which they said reflects Mr Trump's character as an "angry baby with a fragile ego and tiny hands". 
 
 London Mayor Sadiq Khan gave permission for the balloon to fly. 
 
 The White House has been approached for comment. 
 
 On Twitter former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the plan was "the biggest insult to a sitting US President ever". 
 
 Image copyright Andy Aitchison Image caption The inflatable Trump Baby is six metres tall 
 
 Image copyright Jason Hawkes Image caption Campaigners claim the figure reflects Mr Trump's character as an "angry baby" 
 
 Under the plans the inflatable will be allowed to fly for two hours on the morning of Friday 13 July. 
 
 Leo Murray, who is behind the crowdfunded idea, said: "[Mr Trump] really seems to hate it when people make fun of him. 
 
 "So when he visits the UK on Friday, we want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him. 
 
 "That's why a group of us have chipped in and raised enough money to have a six-metre high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies over Parliament Square during Trump's visit." 
 
 Mr Murray said organisers initially "didn't get off to the best start with the mayor's office over this, who originally told us that they didn't recognise Trump Baby as legitimate protest". 
 
 However, he said City Hall had "rediscovered its sense of humour - Trump Baby will fly". 
 
 A statement on behalf of the London mayor said he "supports the right to peaceful protest and understands that this can take many different forms". 
 
 Mr Khan's city operations team met organisers and gave them permission to "use Parliament Square Garden as a grounding point for the blimp". 
 
 Image copyright Jason Hawkes Image caption The plan is for the Trump Baby to take off from Parliament Square 
 
 More than 10,000 people signed a petition calling for the inflatable to be given permission to fly, activists said. 
 
 Mr Khan and Mr Trump have repeatedly clashed on Twitter, including in the aftermath of the London Bridge attack. 
 
 Before the figure can take off, campaigners will also need permission from the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) as the project constitutes a "non-standard flight in controlled airspace", a spokesperson said. 
 
 Because Parliament Square sits within restricted airspace, additional approvals are also needed from the Metropolitan Police. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Where will the US president go and what might greet him? 
 
 Max Wakefield, who is one of the people working on the project, said the group is "confident it will obtain all necessary permits". 
 
 He said the initial crowdfunding target was just £1,000, but this was reached within 24 hours. 
 
 The extra cash will now be used to send the balloon on a "world tour" and "haunt" Mr Trump wherever he goes, he added. 
 
 The Met has been approached for a comment. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 June 24, 2018, 9:30 AM GMT / Updated July 5, 2018, 11:44 AM GMT By Alastair Jamieson 
 
 LONDON — A 20-foot-tall inflatable orange baby with the face of President Donald Trump will float over Britain’s Parliament next week, one of many acts of protest planned to coincide with Trump's first visit to the U.K. since taking office. 
 
 Campaigners plan to ridicule the president with this blimp. 
 
 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. 
 
 Trump will instead pay a working visit on July 13 for bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May, a meeting with the queen and possibly a round of golf in Scotland where he owns two resorts. 
 
 Sir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to Washington and author of “D.C. Confidential,” said Trump’s “deeply controversial” reputation made it “unlikely he’ll be strolling around Trafalgar Square” or any other prominent sites that could pose a security risk. 
 
 “The easiest answer to avoiding demonstrators is using helicopters,” he said. “That makes it possible to get about without being much bothered by protests at all.” 
 
 Ridicule 
 
 Mass anti-Trump marches have been more than a year in the planning, after May first extended an invitation for Trump to visit the U.K. in early 2017. 
 
 The largest are planned in London, where organizers of Together Against Trump estimate up to 100,000 people, including labor unions and rights groups, will march through the center of the city to Trafalgar Square. 
 
 The people behind last year’s successful Women’s March are staging a Bring The Noise rally earlier on the same day to end in Parliament Square, opposite the House of Commons. (You can already buy the T-shirt.) 
 
 “We’re planning a proper British welcome for Trump,” said Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, 42, a co-organizer of the march and founder of Women in Leadership. 
 
 “Change for tolerance, justice and equality is no longer jurisdictional but global,” she said. “We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. I cannot stand by and be complicit through silence as intolerance, injustice and discrimination shape hostile policies, laws and environments for many. If all I have is my voice and vote, I will make them count.” 
 
 A quieter but eye-catching protest is planned by Leo Murray, 41, who received permission Thursday to fly a helium-filled blimp of Trump as a baby during the visit. 
 
 “Moral outrage has no affect on Trump because he has no shame, he’s immune to it,” the climate campaigner said. “But he has a tremendously fragile ego so ridicule is an effective form of protest," he added. 
 
 "So we want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him.” 
 
 Crowdsourced funding for the specially commissioned $6,500 balloon was easily achieved, but Murray has yet to secure permission from city officials to tether the blimp to Parliament Square. However, he remains confident that his “Trump Baby” will be in the skies over London. “This is exactly the kind of nonviolent but effective protest that they should be encouraging,” he said. 
 
 'Deeply controversial' 
 
 Permission for the blimp came from London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority. Khan is among a series of high-profile British figures to have publicly clashed with Trump over everything from immigration to health care. 
 
 Londoners were angered by the president’s politicization of the deadly London Bridge terror attack in June 2017 in which he called Khan “pathetic” even as the city mourned the eight victims. The two had locked horns previously. Khan, a Muslim, said in 2016 that Trump’s proposed travel ban on Muslim nations was “ignorant.” Trump, then still a candidate, responded by challenging Khan to an IQ test. 
 
 Last month, the president said in a speech to the National Rifle Association that British hospitals were “like a war zone” because of stabbing wounds — an assertion apparently based on the comments of a doctor. "Knives, knives, knives, knives,” Trump said. 
 
 He has also been rebuked, twice, by May: in January, for retweeting inflammatory anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant videos originally shared by a far-right U.K. political group, and again on Wednesday when she called the separation of children from their parents at the U.S. border “deeply disturbing” and “wrong.” 
 
 “Trump is a disruptor in diplomatic relations just as he is at home,” said Meyer, the former ambassador. “He is deeply controversial overseas and anyone who bothers to read poll figures from the U.K. will see that public opinion of him in Britain is very low.” 
 
 However, he added: “It is my view that none of that is an argument for withdrawing an invitation to turn up. There is a clear need to talk candidly with him.” 
 
 Indeed Trump's not the first American president to visit the U.K. at a time of controversy. When President George W. Bush arrived for a full state visit in 2003, months after the invasion of Iraq, he was met by widespread anti-war protests but still attended a formal banquet with the queen. 
 
 President George W. Bush met the queen in 2003 despite anti-Iraq war protests. Roger Allen / AP file 
 
 “If we can complete a full state visit under those circumstances then it should be possible to keep Trump away from the mob,” Meyer said. 
 
 British officials are reportedly pushing for Trump to visit May at her official country residence, Chequers, 40 miles northwest of London, rather than at 10 Downing Street. 
 
 The queen’s home at Windsor Castle, where Prince Harry married Meghan Markle on May 19, might also be favored by the Secret Service over Buckingham Palace because of its more secure location. “Trump can inspect all the royal guards he wants there,” Meyer said. 
 
 'Shared values' 
 
 On the windblown cliffs of western Scotland, there are whispers that Trump could also squeeze in a round of golf during his brief trip. 
 
 He owns two golf resorts in the country — Turnberry in Ayrshire and Menie in Aberdeenshire — and his mother, Mary, was born on the remote Scottish island of Lewis before emigrating to America. 
 
 Trump will reportedly spend the night at Turnberry before returning across the Atlantic. But in Scotland there are more planned protests. 
 
 Kirsty Haigh of Scotland Unite Against Trump, said, “Trump likes to talk up his Scottish connections, but we are going to show that his politics are not welcome here.” 
 
 Among those attending demonstration in Glasgow will be Andrea Mullaney, 43, and her 2-year-old son. “When you have a child that is the same age as those crying and being put in cages at the U.S. border it makes you think how horrific that is and we have to make it clear that this kind of behavior is beyond the pale,” she said. 
 
 She said the fact Trump was not a British leader did not diminish the need for protest. “People marched against apartheid and the Iraq war,” she said. “The international community has got a role to play in showing that what Trump stands for is out of order. 
 
 “Besides, Scotland has been protesting Trump long before he was president; he has had business interests here and has shown that he doesn’t care about the local environment.” 
 
 Ian Blackford, a senior Scottish National Party lawmaker, said Scotland’s historic ties to the U.S. would not “be undermined by the policies of one president.” 
 
 He lies about crime in Britain, he lies about crime in Germany, he lies about and defends his cruel, inhumane, barbaric policy of separating babies and children at the border, a new low even for him, and in less than four weeks, @theresa_may will roll out the red carpet. Really? https://t.co/Y9PyeMrSAD — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) June 18, 2018 
 
 “We share values with the American people of equality, diversity and support for human rights and must always stand up for those values when they are threatened,” he said. 
 
 Others remain incredulous that Trump still has an open invitation to return for a full state visit, complete with public ceremonies, at a later date. 
 
 Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said in an interview with Sky News on Friday that the trip should be delayed over Trump's immigration policies. 
 
 "I wouldn't have invited him and I think the prime minister's got ample reasons to withhold the invitation if she wants to," Corbyn said. 
 
 "We need to say very clearly to Donald Trump, We live in a multicultural society, we're proud of it. Get over it and start living in one yourself." 
 
 In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour Party lawmaker Gavin Shuker asked May: “What does this man have to do to have the invitation … revoked?” 
 
 The prime minister replied: “When we disagree with the United States, we tell them so. But we also have some key shared interests … and it is right that we are able to sit down and discuss those with the president of a country with which we have had a longstanding — and will continue to have a longstanding — special relationship.” 
 
 So Trump will come to Britain, and Brits will almost certainly be out in force to make their feelings clear.
– US President Donald Trump is fairly unpopular in Britain, and he's headed there next week. A warm welcome isn't exactly expected, reports NBC News. Rather than paying an official state visit to the UK (an idea that was opposed by nearly 2 million people in a petition), he's making a "working visit," which involves less "pomp and circumstance," the New York Times explained earlier this month. Even so, "we're planning a proper British welcome for Trump," a co-organizer of the Bring the Noise rally, planned for the July 13 and ending across from the House of Commons, tells NBC. Tens of thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators are expected to take to the streets that day; a Together Against Trump march is also planned through the center of the city. The protesters won't be the only ones greeting Trump: A 20-foot-tall inflatable orange "Trump baby" will also be floating over parliament when he arrives. Leo Murray, 41, staged a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to fly the $6,500 orange balloon shaped like a baby that strongly resembles Trump; the campaign ended up raising so much that if it ends up raising its stretch goal of $26,400 (it's mere dollars away as of this posting), it plans to send a smaller version of the Trump baby anywhere else the POTUS plans to visit: It will "follow little Donald around the world, haunting his diplomatic engagements wherever he goes!" the campaign reads. "If we can troll Donald from the skies wherever he goes for long enough, he'll start seeing #TrumpBaby in his dreams!" London Mayor Sadiq Khan gave Murray permission Thursday to tether the blimp to Parliament Square, the BBC reports; a statement from the mayor's office says he "supports the right to peaceful protest and understands that this can take many different forms." Protests are also planned in Scotland, where Trump owns two golf resorts and plans to spend time during his visit.