Activists gathered outside the US Embassy in central London on Wednesday to protest Trump’s election victory.
The demonstration was organised to denounce what protesters called Trump’s reactionary politics.
In a statement, the Black Liberation Alliance said: “Trump’s win signals an era of reactionary politics that will emerge as emboldened white supremacists and accelerated neocolonial interventions.”
Ebony, an activist attending the protest, said: “I’m here because I’m anti-Trump, and I’m anti everything he stands for. The man is a homophobe, he is a racist, he is a sexist, misogynist.”
Photo: Raul Rizzato
Trump won the race to become the 47th US president after taking both the popular vote and the electoral college votes on November 5.
From the stage outside the embassy, one of the speakers said: “We are threatened by Donald Trump, we are threatened by the KKK, by the far-right and everything he energises.”
Another speaker told the crowd: “We are here to say no to Trump, no to his racism, his bigotry, his homophobia, his transphobia, we are here to stand against everything that Donald Trump represents.”
The activist group Stand Up to Racism urged protesters to resist Trumpism in the UK politics: “Farage wants to bring Trumpism to British politics & replicate Trumps successes with hard racism and attacks on Muslims and migrants.”
Earlier on Wednesday two climate activists from Just Stop Oil were arrested after spraying the US Embassy with orange paint in protest against Trump.
Mahmoud, a student at KU who supports Trump, said: “It makes no sense for people in the UK to protest him because the presidential election in America has nothing to do with British citizens.
Trump has made a huge change to America in many ways as well as helping keep a special relationship with UK in terms of trading. He has done way more than Biden and Kamala.”
Activists are calling for more protests across the UK, with demonstrations scheduled for Saturday November 9 in Manchester, Oxford, Brighton and London.
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