PHILADELPHIA — A man who started a crowd source funding account to bring a balloon ridiculing President Donald Trump to the United States hopes to fly it near the president’s New Jersey golf club.
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The "Fund To Bring Baby Trump To America" raised more than $5,800 as of Sunday evening, more than its $4,500 goal, since it was started Friday by Didier Jimenez-Castro, who wants to fly it at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.
Jimenez-Castro worked with the People’s Motorcade, a group that protests out front of Trump’s New Jersey golf club, to create the GoFundMe, after he found out about the anti-Trump effigy and wanted to bring it across the Atlantic.
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"This is about doing some real activism," Jimenez-Castro, who works at a homeless shelter, told WPHT. "We want to go on a tour. We will definitely bring (the balloon) to Central Park."
He expects to receive the 20-foot tall balloon, that features Trump as an angry, cell-phone carrying caricature, which has flown in London and Scotland during the president’s visit to the United Kingdom, in mid-August.
"The baby Trump is not just a piece of humor, but it is also a symbol of the administration," Jimenez-Castro told The Star-Ledger. "It's symbolic of the children that are in cages, it's a symbol of racism, and we know that he hates to be ridiculed."