Trump protests - as it happened: Thousands demonstrate as US president plays golf in Scotland
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Your support makes all the difference.Thousands of demonstrators protested across the country as Donald Trump’s UK visit turned from talks with the Prime Minister and the Queen to golf.
The US president flew to Glasgow Prestwick airport on Friday night for a two-day private stay at his Turnberry golf resort, as the protests entered their third day.
People marched in Edinburgh from the Scottish Parliament to the Meadows, waving placards with messages including “Dump Trump” and ”Love Trumps Hate,” as part of a so-called “Carnival of Resistance”.
Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered outside the Turnberry course in Ayrshire, where demonstrators shouted: “No Trump, no USA, no KKK, no racist USA!”
Police were still investigating on Saturday after Greenpeace flew a paraglider with a banner bearing the message “Trump well below par” above the resort on Friday evening, despite restrictions on the airspace above the course.
In London, a “Welcome Trump” procession joined with a ”Free Tommy” march, to form a group of several hundred who demonstrated in support of the US President and the far-right leader.
The Metropolitan police separated the group from antifascist protesters and placed restrictions on when and where the demonstrators could gather.
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Here's Labour MP David Lammy speaking to The Independent yesterday:
"I don't think any of us could have believed that a man full of such bile, such hatred, such evil would get his hands on what as its best is the beacon of freedom in the world," he said. "This presidency is worse than any of us could have ever ever imagined."
Pro-Trump demonstrators are gathering outside the US embassy in London. The "Welcome Trump" march is due to join up with a "Free Tommy Robinson" procession, in support of the jailed far-right leader.
Fearing violence. police have imposed restrictions on the protests.
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Some photographs from outside Turnberry, the luxury golf resort in Scotland where the US President is staying.
Police have been searching vehicles waiting to enter the premises.
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More than 100 protesters have gathered outside Trump International Golf Links by Balmedie in Aberdeenshire.
Speakers rallied demonstrators who waved Mexican and CND flags and carried placards with slogans including “Britain Says No to Trump” and “Trump not Welcome Here”.
Passing motorists sounded their horns while half a dozen police officers stood at the entrance to the Menie Estate, where Mr Trump opened his first Scottish golf course in 2012.
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Some people have made their disapproval of the US President visible from the sky.
Our main story today and details of where all the protests are taking place.
Let's relive that moment an anti-Trump banner was flown over the US President's Turnberry golf resort...
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has pledged there will be “peaceful, but passionate” protests against the US president.
The Labour politician, who is due to join marchers in Edinburgh, condemned US President for his “misogyny, his racism, his bigotry” and his “denunciation of climate change and his anti-trade union actions”.
“Donald Trump is not welcome here. The horrific scenes at the Mexican border are just the latest example of his repudiation of decent human values," Mr Leonard said on the Red Robin website.
"Caging children like animals is barbaric and we simply cannot roll out the red carpet for a US president who treats people that way.
“These demonstrations are not simply just about the politics of Donald Trump, it is about his moral values as well.”
He added: “It is not about right versus left, it is about right versus wrong.”
Protesters are gathering in Edinburgh, with some demonstrators carrying a large banner bearing the message: "Scotland against Trump."
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"Welcome Trump" and "Free Tommy" demonstrators have begun a rally in London. Several protests against the imprisonment of far-right leader Tommy Robinson have already taken place in Britain, including one that saw supporters perform Nazi salutes and attack police. Mr Robinson will appeal his 13-month sentence at the Court of Appeal on 18 July.
Full story of why Robinson was jailed here:
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