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.
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William Barr, the former attorney general and staunch Donald Trump ally, said that doubts raised about the legitimacy of the election results precipitated the riot at the Capitol.
But he would not say whether he believed Trump had incited the mob that ransacked the building on January 6, instead blaming free-speech issues and the news media.
Barr, who stepped down last month after pushing back on Trump s false claims that the election had been stolen from him, told the British news channel ITV on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) it was unacceptable that a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol building and disrupted proceedings to certify President-elect Joe Biden s electoral college victory.