British activists with the group Just Stop Oil protested the U.S. Presidential Election result by painting the U.S. Embassy in London orange.
“This morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere,” the leftist group wrote on X. “Political systems that can be bought by big oil have no value as we face the biggest challenge of our time.”
The group claimed that the “only real winner of today’s election is the corporate power that controls the major parties in both the US and UK. They continue to ensure the interests of the fossil fuel industry will continue to be prioritised over the wellbeing of ordinary people.”
They added that democracy has been “hijacked” by “corporate interests and billionaires,” calling former and future President Donald Trump a “fake populist.”
London’s Metropolitan Police arrested two of the group’s activists, Reuters reported.
“This activity is vandalism purporting as protest and we will continue to have a zero tolerance attitude to actions such as this,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said in a statement.
The activists were recorded being arrested and led away by police.
