Protestors have produced a huge piece of sand art on the beach outside Donald Trump’s Turnberry hotel and golf course.
Greenpeace UK are behind the project to mark 100 days of the US president’s second term.
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 shows a giant portrait of Mr Trump alongside the message: “Time to resist – fight the billionaire takeover”.
The first 100 days of his second administration has seen the US leave the Paris Climate agreement and he has offered the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling.
Other environmental complaints include opening up the Pacific to industrial fishing and he wants to launch deep sea mining in US and international waters.
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He has also ended investment in clean energy and boosted coal, oil and fossil gas by weakening regulations and removing obstacles for the fossil fuel industry.
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.
“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.”
“For the billionaires and big oil companies this is not just another source of money. They want to silence all critics and any protests against the core issue with their business: fossil fuels that are causing the climate crisis and environmental destruction.”
Greenpeace UK activists have also been subvertising bus stops around the US embassy in Nine Elms, London, with posters carrying the same messaging.
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