Donald Trump targeted by Greenpeace with huge 'Time to Resist' message at Scottish golf course
Greenpeace today unveiled a 55m by 40m engraving on the beach outside Trump Turnberry showing a giant portrait of the US President raked into the sand with the message: "Time to resist – fight the billionaire takeover".
The eco group claimed the temporary artwork - which will be washed away by the tide - was intended as a protest against the Republican leader"working to dismantle and weaken environmental protections".
The artwork took several hours to draw out in the sand overnight by a team from arts organisation Sand in Your Eye and Greenpeace UK.
It come as the Scottish Greens today make another call for Trump's invite to the UK for a state visit to be torn up.
Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "During his first 100 days President Trump has been actively working to dismantle and weaken environmental protections and attack those who fight to protect nature and our shared climate, putting the corporate profits of his billionaire friends ahead of people and the planet. It's time to resist the billionaire takeover of our rights and freedoms."
Hamid added: 'Trump's biggest allies are a group of unelected billionaires, including the fossil fuel company CEOs who are knowingly burning the planet, polluting our waters, and hurting communities around the world.
"No one voted for these corporate bullies to end free speech, but they will stop at nothing to keep their oil and gas empire alive – even weaponising the legal system to crush dissent and silence environmental activism."
Meanwhile, Patrick Harvie today claimed first 100 days of Trump's term in the White House have provided reason enough for Keir Starmer to cancel the planned state visit.
Harvie said: "100 days is more than long enough for Keir Starmer to see what a disaster Trump is for people and planet. He is a racist, misogynistic and climate wrecking fraudster. Neither he nor his politics should have any place here.
"What message does it send if we are rolling out the red carpet for a man who has such a proven contempt for human rights and for our environment? There is no good that can come from it.
"With the far right on the march around Europe, it will be a PR coup for Trump and those who want to replicate him.
"A lot of people in the US and beyond are scared of what four more years of Donald Trump will mean for them. It is those people we need to stand with and not a White House that represents the most extreme and hateful politics.
"Keir Starmer should never have invited Donald Trump in the first place, and after 100 days of chaos it is time to put a halt to it."
Trump last night celebrated the 100th day of his second term in office with a speech touting his achievements and targeting political foes.
Hailing what he called a "revolution of common sense", he told a crowd of supporters in Michigan that he was using his presidency to deliver "profound change".
Trump has delivered a dramatic fall in the number of migrants crossing illegally into the US, but the economy is a potential political vulnerability as he wages a global trade war.
"We've just gotten started, you haven't seen anything yet," Trump told the crowd on Tuesday in a suburb of Detroit.
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