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Headline: Trump Baby Blimp For London: Petition Gains Thousands Of Signatures

Caption: An online petition to fly a Donald Trump blimp over London during the President's visit has almost 6,000 signatures. The campaign to get the 'Trump Baby' inflatable into the air was started after the Mayor of London's office blocked the idea. Activist Leo Murray and his friends had raised over £7,000 by crowdfunding to get the 6m high 'orange baby' Trump made by a professional inflatables company. The team say: "Unfortunately, we need the Mayor of London's permission to be able to fly Trump Baby from Parliament Square - and Sadiq's team at City Hall have told us that flying Trump Baby does not qualify as a 'protest'." They explain in a statement: "Donald Trump is a big, angry baby with a fragile ego. He's also a 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." Explaining the Mayor's office reasoning behind the ban, the team say: "They are insisting that the only form of protest that is legally allowable on their land is "a gathering of people, with banners and placards". We are fairly sure this doesn't make any sense, but their key objection is that flying a large inflatable will occupy a (5x5M) corner of the square which will then not be available for gatherings of people with banners and placards - thereby depriving them of freedom of speech. So we need to demonstrate that there isn't, in practice, anyone planning to protest Trump's visit who would not in fact welcome a 6m high orange baby with Trump’s malevolent face flying in the sky over Parliament during this period." The team say they will not be beaten if the petition fails to sway the Mayor, all they need is "a large garden in central London." They explain: "If we are unable to obtain consent to fly Trump Baby from Parliament Square Gardens, we may need to be creative about finding a suitable alternative location - and that could cost more money too. Trump Baby needs an area of at least 5m square to safely inflate and take off from. If you know anyone with a large garden in central London." Petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/let-trump-baby-fly

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