Yesterday 2.9 million demonstrators took to the streets in the US for the Women's March with hundreds of thousands more marching in the UK.
The Women's March is thought to be the biggest protest in US history, and saw men, women and children protesting against the new president.
Protestors were there to stand up for a number of issues such as gender equality and healthcare for women, including Planned Parenthood, which are under threat from Trump.
A host of famous faces joined the march in the UK including Scarlett Johansson, Emma Watson and Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
But undoubtedly the star of the show, for me at least, was Sir Ian McKellen who rocked up to the London march with this amazing sign:
The sign, which has his best pal Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his famous face-palm meme pose. Perfect.
Taking to his own Twitter Sir Ian posted a photo of himself with the Picard placard and this message:
"The Women's March in London was the longest I have been on. Unlike most demonstrations it was not commandeered by any one group with its identical posters.
The women and their allies had devised their own visual protests, hand-written and improvised at home, expressing their personal reaction to the new President, whose name in schoolyard English means "to break wind" appropriately.
The placard of Sir Patrick, by the way, was not my own - I found it at then end of the March in Trafalgar Square. But there were hundreds of others, including the other three here.
President Breaking Wind has impacted us all; and personally. Some like him, think they can identify with him, believe him because they've seen him on television perhaps and think the billionaire and his billionaire team are truly their friends. The rest of us, including the majority of voters in the USA, see through the charade: after all, the schtick is not exactly subtle. But he's riled us, got under our skin, asking us angry and despairing that he should have got through to the final of his show and turned democracy into a tv/twitter spectacular.
What will happen? No doubt his believers will soon be disillusioned. The rest of us cannot let him reign unchallenged. The Marches today were a good beginning. Some who fear him say "give the man a chance" OK - he's started by removing LGBTQ people, climate change and state funding of the arts from POTUS's website. He's had his chance.
Sadly, Sir Pat wasn't there with his own meme placard, which is unfortunate. However, just knowing that Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier are friends in real life is enough for me.
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I mean, the McKellen/Steward bromance is one of the most amazing in Hollywood:
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What did we do to deserve these two, eh?
