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Trump canceled his trip to the U.S. Embassy in London, but his Madame Tussauds waxwork made it

January 12, 2018 at 8:40 a.m. EST

President Trump may not be coming to London, but that didn't stop his waxwork figure from turning up outside the new U.S. Embassy in the British capital.

While politicians and Britons reacted strongly to Trump's canceled trip, staff from London's Madame Tussauds museum relocated the effigy in chief for a short while.

Claire Treacy, a spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds in London, said the decision to move the life-size Trump waxwork was made spontaneously within minutes. “Just like the rest of the country, we woke up to the news of Trump having canceled his visit. And we thought: 'Wouldn’t it be fun [to move] our own President Trump there, instead?'”