No Welcome for Trump: Feminists, Migrants and Anti-Racists Prepare to Take to the Streets

Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland will be met with resistance. ROSA is organising a feminist action in Dublin on 10 September ahead of the wider No Welcome for Trump mobilisation…

ROSA Trump Is a Rapist feminist action poster for O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, on 10 September 2026 ahead of the No Welcome for Trump protest.

Donald Trump is expected to arrive in Ireland on 12 September. The Irish establishment may be preparing to receive the US president, but activists across Dublin are preparing something very different: resistance. Irish authorities are planning a major security operation, while a broad mobilisation against the visit is taking shape.

At our latest ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement meeting, we discussed how we can help build the biggest possible opposition to Trump’s visit while making sure the feminist politics of that opposition are impossible to ignore.  Trump represents a politics of misogyny, racism, attacks on migrants, attacks on bodily autonomy, imperialism and the emboldening of the international far right.

Those politics do not stop at the borders of the United States. They have consequences everywhere, including here in Ireland. One of the strongest themes coming from our discussion was gender violence. Trump’s misogyny cannot be dismissed as the unpleasant personality of one extremely powerful man. When misogyny is tolerated at the highest levels of political power, it sends a message about a behaviour that will be excused.

That is why ROSA will be taking to the streets two days before the main protest for a specifically feminist action. Our message will be direct: TRUMP IS A RAPIST.

In 2023, a New York civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury did not find him liable for “rape” under the particular, narrower definition then used in New York law. But US District Judge Lewis Kaplan subsequently addressed that distinction directly. He said the jury’s finding established that Trump had raped Carroll as the word is commonly understood and later ruled that Carroll’s description of what Trump did to her as rape was “substantially true”.

Trump has also faced allegations of sexual misconduct from at least 28 women. We refuse to pretend that none of this matters because the man concerned is wealthy, politically powerful and President of the United States. The fact that the Irish political establishment is prepared to lay out the red carpet for a man with this record tells us something about the tolerance afforded to misogyny and sexual violence when wealth and power are involved.

There are a billion other reasons to protest Trump’s visit. But as socialist feminists, we are determined that violence against women will not simply disappear into that longer list.

Trump Is a Rapist: Feminist Action: On Thursday 10 September at 5.30pm, ROSA is calling on feminists, survivors and everyone who refuses to accept the normalisation of misogyny to join us at O’Connell Bridge, on the Heineken sign side. The action will include a feminist stunt, stickering and a banner-drop tour of Dublin city. We will carry placards exposing Trump’s record on misogyny and sexual violence. We want to create a powerful feminist presence in Dublin in the days immediately before his arrival and produce photographs and video that can circulate before the main mobilisation.

The visual message will be impossible to mistake. This is about standing with survivors, refusing to be silenced and asking why powerful men are continually afforded respectability that is denied to the women who speak about what they have experienced.

Birds of a feather: We are also preparing a new banner for the action featuring Trump alongside Conor McGregor. BIRDS OF A FEATHER…RAP(C)ISTS NOT WELCOME

Misogyny does not exist in isolation from racism and it does not exist separately from the politics of migration. Attacks on migrants do not exist separately from the growth of the far right. And none of these questions can be separated from wealth and political power.

Migration and racism were another major part of our discussion. Trump’s presidency has made aggressive immigration enforcement and deportation central to his political project. But we do not want migrants simply spoken about at an anti-Trump demonstration. Migrant communities themselves should be visible, organised and heard. Activists are therefore reaching out to different migrant groups to encourage participation and find out what communities themselves want to bring to the mobilisation.

There are also plans for Spanish-language mobilisation material to reach people who might otherwise never encounter an English-language poster circulating through the usual political networks.If we are opposing racism, migrants must be part of that resistance.If we are opposing the far right, the communities targeted by the far right must have their own voices within the movement.

Trump’s administration is also systematically rolling back federal protections for trans people. It has barred transgender people from serving in the military, restricted allowing trans, non-binary and intersex people to obtain passports reflecting their gender identity, restricted federal workers’ bathroom access, and is removing federal support for gender-affirming healthcare. Most recently, it finalised a rule cutting Medicaid and CHIP funding for puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery for minors, due to take effect in October 2026. Several of these measures remain subject to legal challenges.

Trump and the international far right are growing, including Latin America, Europe and Ireland. Trump’s victories have given confidence to political forces far beyond the United States. That makes his visit an opportunity for something more important than telling one American president that we don’t like him. The politics of attacking migrants, LGBTQ+ people, reproductive rights, feminism and minorities, manufacture fear, then offer authoritarian politics as the solution. Different countries produce different versions of it, but the political method is increasingly familiar. Trump has become one of its most powerful international symbols. That is why resistance to his visit must also be resistance to the politics he helps legitimise.

Palestine was also central to our discussion. Opposition to Trump’s visit cannot be separated from the enormous military, economic and diplomatic power exercised by the United States internationally, including its relationship with Israel. That also raises difficult questions for Ireland. For decades, successive Irish governments have treated access to American political and corporate power as something almost sacred. Ireland’s economic dependence on US multinational investment has been accompanied by extraordinary political deference towards Washington.However, economic power cannot be allowed to buy political silence. Solidarity with Palestine cannot disappear because the President of the United States is visiting.

There is a considerable amount of practical organising still taking place around the main demonstration. Routes, stewarding, speakers, staging, fundraising and mobilisation all have to be dealt with. There is an opportunity to bring together feminists, survivors, migrants, anti-racists, Palestine activists, anti-war campaigners, LGBTQ+ activists, socialists and trade unionists around a common resistance to the politics Trump represents.

The Dublin protest is being organised under the banner “No Welcome for Trump”, with organisers describing the intended mobilisation as peaceful, safe and family-friendly. We should make it enormous and make it political. Trump is not the disease. He is one particularly grotesque expression of a much larger political system. A system that concentrates extraordinary wealth and power in the hands of a tiny minority and permits powerful men to escape consequences unavailable to ordinary people.

Our first call is therefore for Thursday 10 September. Join ROSA at 5.30pm at O’Connell Bridge, Heineken sign side, for our Trump Is a Rapist: Feminist Action. There will be a stunt, stickering and a banner-drop tour of Dublin. Come with us. Stand with feminists. Stand with survivors. Make some noise.

Then on Saturday 12 September, we join the much wider mobilisation against Trump’s visit. The Irish Government may be preparing the diplomatic welcomes and security operation. We will be preparing something else.

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  1. moshe kerr Avatar
    moshe kerr

    This would please me no end :)))

    The Mullahs launched 13 missiles. Three fell into the Jordanian desert and ten were shot down. The IDF and Shin Bet have captured senior Hamas figures in Gaza City.

    Post October 7, 2023, we are in a new era. Israel should establish the Tribe of Reuven, encompassing Gaza, with the Arab population relocated to Syria-Palestine.

    War has consequences. After WWII, Prussia, the heart of the Second German Empire under the Kaiser, was fundamentally changed. Millions of Germans were expelled and territory was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union. Following the October 7 war, Israeli self-determination should likewise include establishing the historic territories of the Twelve Tribes and restoring what I regard as the classical Republic of Israel. Gaza would become Reuven, with its Palestinian population resettled elsewhere.

    Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and granted Palestinians substantial autonomy there, as well as in Area A of the West Bank. In my view, after October 7 Israel has no intention of returning to the previous arrangement.

    Hamas must be completely defeated in Gaza. Israel should determine its own borders, including what I regard as the historic territory of the Tribe of Reuven and the other Tribes.

    Arab countries should take greater responsibility for Palestinian refugees. There is precedent for major population movements following wars. Millions of Syrian refugees, for example, currently live outside Syria. Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas in the 2006 legislative election. The claim made during the Oslo process that the PLO was the sole representative of the Palestinian people was subsequently challenged by that result.

    The displacement of Jewish communities from Arab countries following the creation of Israel should also form part of this historical discussion. Likewise, British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine prevented many European Jews from finding refuge during a period of extreme persecution.

    Vivek Ramaswamy’s foreign-policy framework, often characterised as “America First” realism, prioritises non-interventionism, national self-reliance and reducing US involvement overseas. Based on his public statements, an administration following this approach would probably argue that neighbouring Arab nations should bear primary responsibility for absorbing Palestinian refugees.

    Under this rationale, a large movement of Palestinians into Syria or other neighbouring countries would principally be regarded as an issue for Middle Eastern governments rather than one requiring direct American intervention.

    Rather than deploying American forces, imposing sanctions or taking responsibility for peace negotiations, such an administration would probably seek to minimise US involvement while allowing regional governments to make their own security decisions.

    Ramaswamy has also been strongly critical of international institutions, including the United Nations and international legal bodies. His approach would therefore be unlikely to favour American enforcement of international resolutions concerning the conflict.

    His economic policies also oppose substantial foreign-aid expenditure, making it unlikely that he would support American taxpayers financing the infrastructure or long-term costs of population resettlement.

    More broadly, Ramaswamy has advocated expanding bilateral economic and security agreements between Israel and Arab states through what he has described as “Abraham Accords 2.0”, with an emphasis on regional economic normalisation.

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    1. Sorcha Avatar
      Sorcha

      Moshe, I had to edit your comment before I would even allow it to appear here. I corrected some of your language and removed the most disgusting racist rhetoric and racial slurs. I will not provide a platform for that filth.
      But even after removing it, what remains is extraordinary.
      You are openly advocating the destruction of Palestinian society in Gaza, the removal of its people, the seizure and renaming of their homeland and their forced displacement into another country. Call it “population transfer”, invoke the Twelve Tribes, reach back to Prussia or dress it up as Israeli “self-determination” if you like. I will call it what it is: the advocacy of genocide.
      And there is something particularly obscene about reaching into the horrors of twentieth-century Europe to find precedents for doing it.
      “War has consequences” is not an argument for collective punishment. Hamas fought back on 7 October. That does not make every Palestinian guilty. It certainly does not make Palestinian children guilty. Many of the people you would expel from Gaza were not even alive when Hamas won an election in 2006.
      Your argument about self-determination is also breathtakingly contradictory. You demand an absolute right to self-determination for one people while apparently believing another people can simply be driven from their homes when their existence becomes inconvenient to that project. Rights that belong only to the people you approve of are not rights at all.
      And let me be absolutely clear about the racism. The racial slurs in your original comment were disgusting. They have no place here. They have no place in any serious political discussion, and that kind of racist rhetoric is not welcome in the Ireland I know and fight for.
      You posted all of this underneath my article opposing Donald Trump and the politics that surround him: racism, misogyny, authoritarianism, the persecution of minorities and the deliberate dehumanisation of people so that increasingly appalling things can be done to them.
      You appear to have missed the point of the article spectacularly.

      I oppose those politics when Trump employs them. I oppose them when the far right employs them in Ireland. And I oppose them when somebody arrives on my website advocating the removal of Palestinians from Gaza while throwing racial slurs at Arabs. So consider this your boundary. Debate me. Disagree with me. Challenge every political position I take if you want.
      But racist rhetoric and advocacy of genocide are not welcome here.

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      1. moshe kerr Avatar
        moshe kerr

        That’s exactly what the Arab countries did to the Jews of ’48 – almost 1 million Jews expelled and its defines the war of both ’48 and ’67 to throw the Jews into the Sea!

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        1. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, you are proving my point rather than answering it.
          The persecution, dispossession and expulsion of Jewish people from Arab countries was wrong. Absolutely wrong. I have no difficulty saying that.
          But here is the part you seem determined not to understand: one historic injustice does not provide moral permission to inflict another injustice on a different population generations later.
          If your argument is that the expulsion of Jewish families was a terrible crime, then the lesson should be that forcibly removing people from their homes because of their ethnicity or nationality is wrong. The lesson cannot seriously be: “It happened to us, therefore we are entitled to do it to somebody else.”
          Palestinian children living in Gaza today did not expel Jewish families in 1948. They did not start the 1948 war. They did not fight in 1967. Many were not even alive when Hamas won an election in 2006.
          They do not inherit collective guilt.
          You originally advocated removing the population of Gaza, sending them to another country, taking their land and even renaming it. When challenged, your defence is that Jews suffered expulsion elsewhere nearly eighty years ago.
          That is not a defence of what you proposed. It demonstrates precisely why forced displacement should horrify you.
          Jewish suffering matters. Palestinian suffering matters. There is no contradiction in saying both.
          What I will not accept is the idea that the historic persecution of Jewish people creates a licence to dehumanise Palestinians, advocate their removal or use disgusting racial slurs against Arabs.It doesn’t.And if your response to historical ethnic cleansing is to demand another ethnic cleansing, you have learned entirely the wrong lesson from history.

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          1. moshe kerr Avatar
            moshe kerr

            Simply stated – what’s good for the goose, good for the gander. Its not simply “one” historic injustice. Injustice defines the courts of Par’o and all the Courts of the Goyim which failed to hold war criminals among their own people and make them stand before justice. Never a Catholic poop Pope ever condemned for the 3 Centuries of Ghetto gulags or the post WWII rat-lines which assisted Nazis to flee from justice or the Polish pogroms post WWII!

          2. moshe kerr Avatar
            moshe kerr

            During the British mandate the only “Palestinians” – Jews! When did Arabs start to accept the idea of Palestine? The 1939 White Paper wherein Chamberlain the coward repudiated the League Mandate of 1922 based upon the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Compare that British puke with the Obama supported UN SC 2334. You will be shocked by the similarity of language.

          3. moshe kerr Avatar
            moshe kerr

            The church throughout the Dark and Middle Ages called Jews “Christ killers” – weigh that against the poor dhimmi Arab babies in Gaza today. Shakespeare talked of the anger of revenge as a dish best served cold.

        2. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, “they did it to us” is not a defence of doing it to somebody else. The persecution and displacement of Jewish communities from Arab countries was wrong. I have already said that unequivocally. But Palestinians living in Gaza today are not collectively responsible for what Arab governments did in 1948, nor for wars fought before most of them were born.

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      2. moshe kerr Avatar
        moshe kerr

        UNWRA schools promote racism. UN 3379 – Zionism is Racism! And the Durban Human Rights Conference in SA which only condemned Israel!

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        1. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, you’re doing it again. We have gone from 1948, to 1967, and now to UNRWA, a UN resolution from 1975 and the Durban conference.

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      3. moshe kerr Avatar
        moshe kerr

        The 1948 Arab states’ actions against ~850,000–900,000 Jews were a deliberate, state-directed expulsion campaign that included property seizures, massacres (e.g., in Aleppo, Tripoli, etc.), forced marches (e.g., from Iraq), bank account freezes, citizenship revocation and more! That mass population transfer coordinated to erase the Jewish presence from the Arab world. The Arab League’s 1948 resolution (as reported by its own officials) encouraged or tolerated it. The 1948 Arab expulsions – a textbook case of ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Holocaust, committed by Arab governments against their own Jewish populations.

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        1. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, you are still not answering the argument.

          I have already said clearly that the persecution, dispossession and expulsion of Jewish communities from Arab countries was wrong. You do not need to convince me that those people suffered a profound historical injustice.

          What you need to explain is how that injustice gives anyone the right to inflict another one on Palestinians today.

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          1. moshe kerr Avatar
            moshe kerr

            Wrong? An incorrect metaphor. Eye for an Eye a Torah concept of justice. The Talmud describes the Prime First Cause of the collapse of the 2nd Republic of Judea to “Hatred without Cause”. Goyim addiction to blood libel slanders not a past tense history but rather an ever present reality to day as in the Dark Ages! Only fair compensation for damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B can righteous justice heal hatred without cause.

          2. moshe kerr Avatar
            moshe kerr

            Thank you Sorcha for your excellent opinions.

        2. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, stop using the Holocaust this way. The persecution, dispossession and displacement of Jewish communities across Arab countries was real, shameful and historically important. Nobody here is denying it. What did a Palestinian child living in Gaza today have to do with the persecution of a Jewish family in Iraq, Egypt, Libya or Yemen generations ago?

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      4. moshe kerr Avatar
        moshe kerr

        Post Shoah Israelis define: Once “burned” twice weary.

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        1. Sorcha Avatar
          Sorcha

          Moshe, the phrase is “once bitten, twice shy”, but I understand your point. After the Shoah, Jewish fear of persecution and annihilation is not difficult to understand. But “never again” cannot mean “never again for us, and whatever happens to everyone else is acceptable”.

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