Catalogue Number
NMLH.2023.7.1
Object Name
leaflet
Title
Trumpets against Trump leaflet
Place
London, Bristol, USA
People
Trumpets Against Trump, Conway & Young, Donald Trump, Republican Party
Events
Donald Trump State Visit 2018, Donald Trump State Visit 2019
Date
2019
Description
This is a Trumpets Against Trump leaflet/paper object, which accompanies the Trumpets Against Trump banner. On one side it says 'Trumpets Against Trump' in blue writing. The other side has red text and a longer description. There are also images of music notes.
The long description says "This is a note. Now blow it. Trumpets Against Trump is an invitation, to anyone with a trumpet, to join us in making a bad noise for bad times. Whenever President Trump is in the UK we will gather to perform a discordant drone piece on our trumpets. We will fix our attention, for as long as the note holds, to the dangerous form of politics Trump and his administration create. Trumpets Against Trump is our collective wake up call - a foghorn against a slip into despondency in these complex political times. By inviting individuals to make to make a loud inharmonious noise together under the banner of Trumpets against Trump, we are both protesting Trump's form of politics and the UK government's compliance. Blowing as an act of therapeutic exorcism, where words fail, in solidarity with all those affected by Trump and his policies. BLAST FASCISM -xx-((. Get your trumpet ready; find one, borrow one, steal one. Alternate between these low notes. Play them for as
long and as loudly as you possibly can for the duration of the performance. Make it sound as discordant as possible. Please don't play anything tuneful or recognisable. No practice is needed, the worse the better. @TrumpetsAgainst @CONWAYandYOUNG.'
Trumpets Against Trump was a band made up entirely of trumpet players who gathered to play discordant droning sounds whenever US President Donald Trump visited the UK while in office (2016-2020). Their protest performances occur was used in protest against the state visit by Trump to the UK in July 2018 and June 2019. Trumpets Against Trump participated in a 250,000 strong mass protest on 13 July 2018 comprised of protestors against Trump's political views on immigration, Muslims, women's rights and LGBTQIA+ equality. The rally was held in central London. The group disbanded on 7 November 2020, the day after Trump lost the 2020 US Presidential election.
