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# CityWatch Today: Baby Trump's Coming Home!
July 16 2018
Written by Abby Zimete.
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GUEST COMMENTARY--After its triumphant tour over hundreds of thousands of U.K [protesters ](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/the-best-signs-from-the-anti-trump-protests-in-scotland.html)and their bloody brilliant [signs, ](https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/14/scottish-protesters-greet-tiny-fingered-cheeto-faced-ferret-wearing-shitgibbon-trump)the Baby Trump blimp - scowling face, yuge diaper, teeny hands clutching toxic phone and all - is [coming](https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/15/baby-trump-bedminster-gofundme/786555002/) to New Jersey to torment the noxious baby himself at his Bedminster golf club, where Trump often weekends on, lest we forget, your and my dime. In a couple of days, a [GoFundMe](https://www.gofundme.com/fund-to-bring-baby-trump-to-america) page by local activists has [raised ](https://www.gofundme.com/fund-to-bring-baby-trump-to-america)over $8,000, or almost double their original goal, and still going strong - to bring the 20-foot masterstroke to Trump's home turf.
The English baby was likewise [crowdfunded ](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/trump-baby)by a group of experienced organizers - "If anyone can blow up Trump Baby, we can" - who have now [raised](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/trump-baby) close to an additional £40,000 to [send ](https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/humiliating-trump-baby-war-escalates-with-world-tour-1271867459694)him on a world tour. The balloon, [says](https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/13/video-donald-trump-baby-blimp-inflatable-matt-bonner-interview-parliament-square-gardens-london/) its designer, deliberately "uses the language of mockery, which is a language that (Trump) understands."
The Bring Baby Trump to America campaign has been led by activist Didier Jimenez-Castro of Hillsborough N.J.,[working with](https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html) the local Democratic Party and the [People's Motorcade](http://www.bluejersey.com/tag/peoples-motorcade/), a grassroots group that holds regular Saturday protests in "the free speech zone" between Trump's golf course and Bedminster's public library.
"We need to get under his skin as much as we can," [says ](https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html)Jimenez-Castro, who sees the balloon as a symbol for disastrous policies from egregious racism to climate change denial to children in cages. Working at a local family homeless shelter, he adds, "gives me a lot of fuel to keep going and say 'No, we are not going to cower to this clown.'"
The balloon is being ordered Monday, and should arrive in about a month. It's proven so popular several more campaigns have reportedly [sprung up](https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/15/baby-trump-bedminster-gofundme/786555002/) to bring him to Maryland, Texas, Missouri and New Mexico; Jimenez-Castro also hopes to tour with him up and down the East Coast.
"We will continue to work hard," he [vows](https://www.facebook.com/babytrumptour/) on *Facebook*, "to bring this big baby to the public."
*"No royalty or other fraud can face ridicule in a fair field and live."*- Mark Twain
*(CityWatch guest columnist Abby Zimet writes for the excellent [Common Dreams](http://commondreams.org) … where this commentary first appeared.)*
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