London mayor Sadiq Khan has approved the flight of a six-metre-high blimp, which depicts Donald Trump as a cartoon baby, over the Houses of Parliament during the American president's visit to the UK this week.
The orange Trump Baby is due to fly for two hours over Parliament Square Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament, on 13 July 2018, in protest of Trump's visit.
Trump Baby is a six-metre-high inflatable designed to protest Trump's visit to the UK
Environmental campaigner Leo Murray, one of the designers behind the project, said the aim was to create a symbol of the public opposition to Trump's visit.
Nearly two million people signed a petition calling for the visit to be stopped, stating that it would "cause embarrassment to her majesty the queen". "For me, in the face of a humanitarian disaster like climate change or Donald Trump, it really is a case of having to laugh, or cry. So I choose laughter," said Murray," in a statement published by UK newspaper Metro
It is due to fly for two hours over Parliament Square Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament, on 13 July 2018
The comical blimp sees Trump reimagined as a baby with "tiny hands and a malevolent, constipated expression on his face", dressed in a nappy and clutching an iPhone.
It will be flown between 9:30 and 11:30am on 13 July 2018.
"Ridiculing tyrants and despots is a proud British tradition," Murray said. "If this generation is going to have to fight...