Donald Trump in Poland: Women stage Handmaid's Tale protest against 'sexist' US President's visit

Activists took to the streets in Warsaw branding the US President a 'sexist'

Jacob Stolworthy
Friday 07 July 2017 08:19 BST
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Elisabeth Moss in 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Elisabeth Moss in 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Female citizens of Poland have been dressing up as characters from The Handmaid's Tale to protest the visit of Donald Trump.

Activists based in Warsaw donned the red robes and white bonnets seen in the dystopian US series centred on the removal of women's rights starring Elisabeth Moss and Joseph Fiennes. They were lashing out against the arrival of the US President who addressed the country on Thursday (6 July).

A video on Twitter, captioned “We will never become handmaids!” showed demonstrators holding signs that read “Dumb Trump.”


One protestor interviewed on the scene said: “The current president of the United States is not only a sexist and a misogynist who often brags about molesting women but also someone who really endangers our Earth."

Protestors later ripped their bonnets in unison.


The Handmaid's Tale has been used in several US protests fighting the Planned Parenthood bill in a bid to defend rights involved with abortion and women's access to contraception.

Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale - which also stars Ann Dowd and Alexis Biedel - is set in a future where a Christian fundamentalist government has subjugated women's rights due to worldwide infertility.

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