LONDON – The Trump Baby Blimp will live long after its namesake leaves the White House.
The London Museum said on Monday that it added the giant balloon, which shows Donald Trump as a screaming orange baby, to its collection as an illustration of the protests that greeted the U.S. president when he visited the city in 2018.
“By collecting the baby airship, we can mark the wave of feeling that took over the city that day and capture a particular moment of resistance,” Sharon Ament, the museum’s director, said in a statement.
The airship will be part of the museum’s protest collection, which includes artifacts from the women’s suffragette movement, peace activists who opposed the war in Iraq in the early 2000s and more recent protests against cuts in public spending.
The Trump Baby Blimp was designed by a group of friends who met in a London pub to discuss how they could speak out against Trump’s policies. What they created was a giant balloon that caricatured Trump like a baby screaming in diapers holding a smartphone and covered with a lock of yellow hair.
The airship flew out of the Houses of Parliament on July 13, 2018, when thousands of protesters packed the streets of central London to protest Trump’s visit to the capital.
“We hope the baby’s place in the museum will be a reminder of when London took a stand against Trump, but it will take those who see it to examine how they can continue to fight against hate policy,” the airship’s creators said in a statement.