TODAY’S edition of The National comes with an exclusive Scotland Says No To Trump poster.
Share your pictures of peaceful protest around the country with us on social media using the hashtag #ScotlandSaysNoToTrump.
We’ll put the best on our social media streams throughout the weekend, and may also use your photographs in Monday’s edition of Scotland’s only independence-supporting daily newspaper.
If you’ve displayed yours in a window or on a door, send us your images along with the hashtag.
And let us see you amongst the crowds at the various public demonstrations planned across the country.
These begin today, when events will be held in several major landmarks.
Events kick off in Dundee’s City Square at 5pm, with another held at George Square in Glasgow at the same time.
Meanwhile, a branch of the Scottish Green Party has organised a rally in Dumfries town centre which begins at the Robert Burns statue at 5.30pm.
Demonstrations continue tomorrow, when critics of the Trump administration will gather outside the Scottish Parliament at noon in what is widely expected to be the largest show of opposition in Scotland.
Parliamentarians including Green co-convener Patrick Harvie and Labour leader Richard Leonard are expected to address those in attendance.
A “carnival of resistance” will follow in The Meadows area at 2.30pm.
The afternoon action will be preceded by activity outside the Trump Turnberry resort near Girvan in South Ayrshire.
The US leader is set to stay at the resort, which he acquired four years ago.
Anti-racism activists have already attended the coastal golf retreat this week bearing banners and masks in his likeness.
And in the North East, locals will make their voices heard at Trump International Links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire – the tycoon’s other Scots sports resort – from 11am to 3pm.
Those joining in are advised to remain peaceful and respectful.
Kirsty Haigh, of Scotland United Against Trump, said the events aimed to show that the ex-Apprentice judge’s “policies are not welcome here”, despite the “Scottish connections” he “likes to talk up”. His mother Mary Anne MacLeod emigrated from Lewis in 1930.
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