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    Commentary: Twitter's response to London's Trump protests were great fun and just what he wants

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Jun 04, 2019 4 minutes

    The ill-fitting tux, Camilla's wink, the Resist Trump banners, the first lady's hat, the protocol-breaking back-pat, the anti-Trump projection art on landmark buildings, the cacophony of clever signs in Trafalgar Square and, of course, the baby blimp - the president finally went to London to visit the queen and virtually every moment went viral.

    What a surprise.

    The British do not like Donald Trump. If the deserted welcome route where cheering Obama fans once stood did not make that clear (seriously, if they had tumbleweeds in London, there would have been tumbleweeds), an activist group projected his approval ratings in the U.K. (21%) next to Obama's (72%) onto the Tower of London.

    The Tower of London,

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