Good afternoon, dear readers. Please forgive Society Diary for a briefer than usual report this week, as it has only just managed to escape from the Tower of London following this week’s celebrations at Civil Society Media’s Charity Awards. Nevertheless, please read on for a charity angle on the state visit that caused embarrassment for all involved, except the one man on the planet immune to shame.
Trump Baby returns
Is there anything more amusing than a joke the second time around? Diary doesn’t think so.
But apparently not everyone agrees. Indeed, some people are actively offended by this week’s protest against the risible Donald Trump, replete with “Trump baby blimp”. “Unedifying and embarrassing to this country” was what Diary favourite Piers Morgan called it on Question Time.
But while the humour value of the blimp may have diminished for some, there’s no doubt it was eye-catching and helped to give the protest publicity. It even made the cover of Time Magazine, following in the hallowed footsteps of Barack Obama, Mo Salah and Adolf Hitler.
Not only that, but there’s a charity angle! Yes, here comes Diary to capitalise, eager like a mettlesome hound, into the fray with a plunge and a bound. For the Trump babysitters promised only to set its “demonstrably hilarious” infant to the skies if they could raise the princely sum of £30,000.
This landmark duly received, the money is winging its way to non-profit groups working on Islamophobia, climate change, migrants’ rights, misogyny and reproductive rights. Step up UK Student Climate Network, Jawaab and Sisters Uncut in the UK, and Sunrise Movement, United We Dream and Planned Parenthood in the US.
And it doesn’t end there. None other than the Museum of London has waded in, telling Newsweek that it would like to see the 20-foot blimp become a "permanent" part of the museum's "protest collection," along with a balloon that was made in the likeness of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
“Both of these balloons are shining examples of political satire,” said Museum of London director Sharon Ament. George Orwell eat your heart out!
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