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Originally Posted by nightinr
In fairness I think the protests have been very modest. A couple of shop windows smashed by a few thugs.
The left wing media are almost encouraging people to protest.
Let's see how he gets on....hopefully he'll become more humble and inclusive!
On a British point of view it is great to see The Churchill bust back in the Oval office that Obama so crudely chucked out!
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Oh yes, in fact most of the protest marches have been peaceful. It's those that weren't that get the fingers and memes flapping on Facebook
As far as the Churchill bust brou haha is concerned .. the bust in question, by British sculptor Jacob Epstein, was given to President George W Bush by the British government in 2001 and was placed in the Oval Office. But the statue was not donated, it was simply on loan for Bush’s term in office (a loan which the British government decided to extend when Bush was re-elected in 2004). Churchill disappeared from the White House Oval Office in 2009, when the loan ended, at the same time that Obama moved in.
Most news stories, and Boris, neglected to mention that there are two Churchill busts – the one on loan to Bush from 2001 to 2009, and a second bust which the White House has had since the 1960s and still has to this day, which is immediately outside the Oval Office. I think it's completely understandable and appropriate that the first black President of the USA decided to put a bust of Rev Martin Luther King Jr in there to daily "remind him of the people who helped get him there.
From this British point of view I have more concern about the isolationist determination of Trump and his threats to withdraw from NATO than I do about whether a copy of Churchill's bust is one side of the Oval Office doors than the other .. and I'm quite sure that he removed the one of MLK because Obama had put it there, nothing to do with Churchill or the British (although as he seems reluctant to get full facts before acting, he may well have seized on the Churchill bust to replace it because he erroneously believed Obama had actually moved the original one out, rather than simply have placed the copy immediately outside when the original was returned to the UK).