Aug 14, 2024 01:27 PM IST
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss was trolled with a lettuce banner throughout a talking engagement
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss stormed off stage throughout a talking engagement after pranksters unfurled a banner behind her that learn “I crashed the economic system.”
Truss was talking in help of US presidential hopeful Donald Trump when the banner was slowly lowered onto the stage behind her. Together with the legend “I crashed the economic system,” the banner additionally featured a sketch of a lettuce – a vegetable that in some way turned synonymous with Truss’s quick time period in workplace.
The prank drew scattered laughter from the viewers, however Truss herself appeared unaware of it till a person walked onstage to attract her consideration to it. All this occurred whereas the British politician was predicting Trump’s victory within the upcoming US presidential election.
“I do not know the place that got here from,” the embarrassed host on the talking tour stammered as Liz Truss walked off stage in a huff.
Check out the video under:
Marketing campaign group ‘Led by Donkeys’ claimed duty for the prank. In posts shared on the social media platform X, the group stated “We simply dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump talking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t discover it humorous.”
Truss might not have been amused by the prank, however social media actually was. The video has racked up over 2.4 million views on X, the place one particular person wrote: “Effectively that response was icy, positively iceberg.”
“That is the very best factor I’ve seen all yr. Religion in humanity restored,” one other wrote.
It’s not instantly clear when and the place the prank occurred. Movies of the incident surfaced on-line early this morning.
Truss turned synonymous with a lettuce after British tabloid Day by day Star started a livestream of an iceberg lettuce subsequent to a framed {photograph} of Liz Truss in October 2022. The tabloid needed to see whether or not Truss would introduced her resignation as UK PM earlier than the vegetable wilted. Liz Truss lasted 49 days because the PM, saying her resignation earlier than the lettuce wilted.
