Trump Baby in London. Photo courtesy of the Trump Baby UK Twitter account.
Ahead of the inauguration of the US president-elect Joe Biden this week, the Museum of London has acquired a large balloon depicting an unflattering caricature of Donald Trump as a giant baby.
The London museum first expressed interest in acquiring the balloon two years ago, and says it will conserve the object as part of its collection of protest ephemera, potentially displaying it in the museum’s future new home in West Smithfield in “the coming years,” according to an emailed statement.
Museum of London director Sharon Ament says that the balloon marks an important continuation of London’s rich history of political protests, which includes the Suffragette marches of the early 20th century right through to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
reporter: there were chants and placards and that trump balloon, but when asked about it all at his press conference with prime minister theresa may, the president simply brushed it off. i heard that there were protests. i said, where are the protests? i don t see any protests. i did see a small protest today when i came in, very small. reporter: and, in fact, on this rainy day, turnout was far smaller than the 250,000 organizers promised or even the 75,000 they claimed. on this trip, the american president has made himself a major player in british politics. weighing in again on brexit, britain leaving the european union, which has divided this country and sparked political chaos. i would say, yeah, i would think that it will happen, and it probably should happen. this is a great, great country, and it wants its own identity. reporter: the president was gracious towards theresa may, who has announced her resignation. on a previous visit to the uk, he said she was handling br
race like this, it could hurt the candidate under attack but it tends future to help the candidate would accident attacking. the benefit of it comes down to someone else. if it is mounts in a discussion stained wait it could hurt her. it is helping trump. he now has triple the support, up 8-10 points since august, and he is gaining not only and this isen believable to me gaping with women. he is gaining with college educated people. now, more than half of republicans think he is the inevitable nominee. all roads lead to donald trump. every conversation about a candidate in this race is about their reaction to donald trump. the air is leak out of the trump balloon, and credits should go to jindal who in his
ahead of moderate republicans despite the fact he s talking about repealing the 14th amendment. and look at the three names that he s up against. in style. each name is the poster child for the category that they re running in that. so ted cruz for the tea party, he s the tea party favorite. he s being doubled up by donald trump. mike huckabee, same thing for evangelicals and jeb bush is the moderate. he s right in the middle, he s going to keep his head down and win and donald trump is beating him in that category as well. jeff, i ll ask you this question. when the news first game that donald trump was entertaining the idea of running, we didn t say but a lot of people said we re not following for this again. then he gets in. then this is a summer fling, the expiration rate is labor day. clearly that s not happening. so if you believe that the air is coming out of this trump balloon, when does it happen, how does it happen, why does it happen? i don t necessarily believe that