When Donald Trump arrived with his wife Melania Trump in the United Kingdom for his first state visit since 2019, he was not greeted kindly by everyone across the pond.
The trip was meticulously coordinated by the palace, between a military ceremony and an exhibition of art objects from the Royal Collection. One thing likely not planned for by King Charles was a protest staged by the activist group Led by Donkeys, who projected images of the US President alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle.
For nearly ten minutes, the British guerrilla campaign group, which had targeted Trump once before during his first state visit to the UK, broadcast “the story of Trump and Epstein” on the castle, according to an Instagram post. A collection of photos, animations and newspaper extracts deployed on a tower of the building in front of police officers and stunned onlookers.
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According to the BBC, local police arrested of four people suspected of “malicious communications following a media stunt in Windsor.” The suspects include a 60-year-old man from East Sussex, a 36-year-old man and a 50-year-old man from London, and a 37-year-old man from Kent. Members of the collective interviewed by the Guardian revealed that this was “the first time a member of the group had been arrested for making a projection.”
“We’ve done, I think, 25 or 30 screenings since we’ve been here. Often, the police come by, we chat with them, and they even laugh a little with us, and sometimes even tell us not to do it,” they said. But no one has ever been arrested before, so it’s ridiculous that four of our guys were arrested for malicious communications.”
This comes as Trump has been facing questions over his relationship with Epstein, after an obscene letter seemingly written and signed by the president was published by the Wall Street Journal.
Originally published in Vanity Fair France.
