Ever since President Donald Trump arrived in Great Britain earlier this week, those opposed to the U.S. president have been spending a lot of time trolling him, including various references to the president’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Areas near where Trump has been staying have been “decorated” with banners, projected images, and other expressions, most of them referencing Trump and Epstein in various ways. The projected images have included headlines about Trump and Epstein, as well as Trump’s infamous message in his former friend’s “birthday book.” The mugshots
This photo of Epstein & Trump has been projected onto Windsor Castle while Trump is in the UK on a state visit. pic.twitter.com/wDb7WjWWhy
— Ghous Alikhan 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴 (@AlikhanGho69458) September 18, 2025
The projection pranks, per Reuters, led to the arrests of four people, from the group Led by Donkeys, for making an “unauthorised projection” at Windsor Castle. Such a prank would be protected under the First Amendment if it happened in the United States, but Britain has different rules.
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In reference to that, the Scottish newspaper The National referenced the arrests on its front page on Wednesday, asking if sharing that image was “a crime”:
Tomorrow’s front page 📰
Is sharing this image a crime? pic.twitter.com/uGI1FiDJSt
— The National (@ScotNational) September 17, 2025
“The images were part of a nine-minute-long film created by the campaign group Led By Donkeys, which went over the history of Trump’s links to Epstein, including the recent release by US legislators of a tranche of documents said to include a letter from the president to Epstein to celebrate his 50th birthday,” the newspaper reported.
The newspaper also reported separately that Trump was asked about Epstein by a reporter, when he appeared with Prime Minister Kier Starmer, a well as the recent “sacking” of Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the U.S., following reporters of his own Epstein ties.
Donald Trump refused to answer a question about Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Mandelson during his second state visit to the UK https://t.co/UMtT6qNFeL
— The National (@ScotNational) September 18, 2025
“If I may, the elephant in the room – Lord Mandelson. He is no longer the ambassador,” Sky’s Beth Rigby asked the president. “Do you have some sympathy with him that he lost his job over historic links to Jeffrey Epstein?”
“I don’t know him actually,” Trump said. “I had heard that, and I think maybe the Prime Minister would be better speaking of that. It was a choice that he made and I don’t know.”
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