Trump UK visit - live: President attends D-Day memorial after falsely claiming 'big crowds' supported his London visit and protests 'flopped'
Donald Trump has claimed “big crowds” turned out to support him on his state visit while organised protests against him flopped, in the face of images appearing to showing thousands of people opposing him. Though isolated supporters were also present on Tuesday road closures kept crowds away from Mr Trump’s motorcade, while groups outside Buckingham Palace on Monday were largely comprised of tourists.
“I kept hearing that there would be ‘massive’ rallies against me in the UK, but it was quite the opposite. The big crowds, which the Corrupt Media hates to show, were those that gathered in support of the USA and me. They were big & enthusiastic as opposed to the organized flops!” he tweeted on Wednesday morning, despite estimates by police and organisers that people marching in opposition to his visit numbered in the thousands.
The president is currently in Portsmouth with the Queen and other world leaders to attend a D-Day memorial event and will later jet out to Ireland for a meeting with taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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