“We want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him,” says the crowdfunding campaign for a six-meter (20-foot) blimp known as Trump Baby.
Replete with realistic Trumpian details like a snarled face and a cell phone in one tiny hand, plus less-realistic ones like an old-timey cloth diaper and a full head of hair, the giant inflatable tribute to everyone’s least favorite tanning booth addict was created to welcome the president to London in July.
No Trump Baby would be complete without his own Twitter account, delightfully executed in the voice of his human counterpart. This gorgeous GIF, in particular, is accompanied by some great Donnie dialogue.
The fundraiser, hosted on the U.K. platform Crowdfunder, doesn’t mince words about its goals or its motives; at one point, the group describes the popular vote loser as “the big orange sex pest himself,” which is very fucking accurate and needs to be used more often.
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.
The campaign doubled its initial goal in less than 24 hours, and has since more than doubled its stretch goal, with 14 days to go. Meeting that stretch goal has given the creators of TrumpBaby much more power in their efforts to get the Big Orange Sex Pest into the sky. London mayor Sadiq Khan has adamantly refused to give the blimp a permit, despite a petition and an op-ed in The Guardian from Trump Baby spokesman Leo Murray both begging him to reconsider.
The Crowdfunder notes that even if Khan doesn’t cave, they’ve got a Plan B.
More money [...] enable(s) us to hire a barge to guarantee that Trump Baby will fly, even if the authorities refuse to let us fly him from Parliament Square Gardens, and we are unable to find another free site in a suitably central location
Against vocal protest, the Orange One is scheduled to meet with both Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth II in his first visit to the United Kingdom since entering the White House. As one MP asked May earlier in June, “What does this man have to do to have the invitation (May) has extended revoked?”
NBC reports that “tens of thousands” are expected to protest Trump during his visit. There’s the sure-to-be loud “Bring the Noise” protest from Women’s March London, which invites participants to bring “pots and pans from the domestic space of home into the public space of politics - their purpose transformed...as we bring Cacerolazo - ‘Casserole protest’ - to the heart of the city.” The Carnival Of Resistance from the Stop Trump Coalition has events across the U.K., and may just be the largest gathering in London.
There’s also the “American Idiot” campaign, designed to send Green Day’s 2004 anti-Dubya anthem back to the top of the charts—just in time for Donnie’s visit.
