Around 20 Trump supporters were sequestered in a bar near Trafalgar Square by police as confrontations broke out between marchers.
A small group of supporters of President Donald Trump has been barricaded inside a bar in Central London by police for their own safety, as tens of thousands of Britons march against the president's state visit., the group of some 20 pro-Trump demonstrators was dragged into the Lord Moon of the Mall pub near Trafalgar Square, where anti-Trump demonstrators gathered this morning for a march towards Parliament Square.
Though hugely outnumbered by anti-Trump demonstrators, supporters of the president have been making their voices heard as the commander in chief reaches the halfway point of his state visit.shows the opinion of the British public towards a selection of American politicians, indicating the low opinion of Trump in the U.K.The Independent said that around a dozen officers remained outside the bar keeping the activists separated.
Past pro-Trump rallies have been organized and attended by British far-right activists, often in concert with events supporting anti-Islam provocateur and former soccer hooligan Tommy Robinson—real-name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. One of the men told the newspaper that many of those marching against the president did not really"believe in what they were saying," an apparent allegation that protesters had been paid or otherwise incentivized to attend.
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