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Exeter campaigners protest about Trump visit

US president is meeting UK dignitaries

US President's trip has provoked people to gather across the UK

A protest's being held in Exeter tonight against President Donald Trump's visit to the UK.

The American leader's caused a storm with an interview in a national newspaper today, which some people suggest shows little respect to his host, the prime minister.

Places on a bus taking people from Devon to protests in London sold out quickly.  And organisers of an event called Exeter Together Against Trump - in the city centre tonight think two hundred people may attend.

One organiser, Richard Bradbury says: "It's a peaceful gathering of people who are opposed to the disgraceful policies of the Trump regime in the United States. All I know of him from other people is that he's a deeply unpleasant individual, but what's more important to me is what he represents and that's the strong shift in policy towards an intolerant, racist, homophobic set of policies designed to discriminate against minorities."

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