Putting the Trump baby balloon in a museum could help make his ideas history | Kirsty Major

A display in London will share the spirit of the 2018 protests with a wider audience - and create new chances for change

No sooner had the Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi thrown his shoes in protest at the US president George Bush than people were calling for the offending items to be displayed in a national museum. They didn't make it that far: US security forces destroyed them while checking for explosives. Luckily, the Trump baby balloon dodged a similar fate in July 2018, when it floated above crowds that had gathered to protest the president's visit to the UK.

Ahead of Trump's departure from the White House, the activists who designed and handled the blimp (its self-described babysitters") have decided to donate it to the Museum of London. The balloon will sit alongside ephemera from the movements led by the suffragettes and Chartists. Still, unlike these causes, the fight against Trump and everything he stands for - from rising inequality to the pollution of public discourse and the rise of the far-right - is far from over.