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Solidarity in telling Trump he isn't welcome in Britain

WRITERS, actors and celebrities have joined anti-Trump campaigners to tell the US president once again that he’s not welcome in Britain.

Academic Noam Chomsky sent a message of support to the Together Against Trump protest, saying demonstrators should welcome Donald Trump with “the contempt that he richly merits.”

Poet, musician and writer Benjamin Zephaniah said we didn’t need someone like the US president “in our country promoting more division” at a time when “we should be breaking down borders.”

Rapper and activist Lowkey said that it is “our moral imperative” to come out and hit the streets to express clearly “our dissent at a government that at this stage is completely subservient to Trump and Trumpism.”

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: “It’s important to come out on the Trump demonstration, not because people want to say they’re anti-American, not even because they want to say they’re opposed to the American government, but to say they’re opposed to the specific ideas that Trump is associated with.”

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) general secretary Kate Hudson called Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to make Mr Trump’s state visit her final act is “an embarrassment to the values her government claims to represent.

“Cosying up with this dangerous president normalises his breaking of the standards of appropriate behaviour with his sexism, a ban on Muslim immigrants, climate change denial and retweeting racist content from far-right organisations here in Britain,” Ms Hudson said.

Demonstrators will assemble at Trafalgar Square at 11am on June 4 during the president’s state visit, as well as gathering outside Buckingham Palace at 5pm on June 3.

The US embassy said that in addition to security and staff for himself and his family, Mr Trump will be accompanied by a motorcade and helicopters during his visit.

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