Epstein haunts the castle - Trump's England visit starts with a projection in the face

Donald Trump's visit to England did not begin with the expected splendor but with an image that cast a shadow over his arrival. Hardly had the presidential plane touched British soil when, at night, it could be seen in the sky over Windsor Castle: activists projected oversized portraits of Trump including video, see below - and right next to them the face of Jeffrey Epstein. A ghost of the past that he believed long buried now loomed on the walls of one of the kingdom's most symbolic castles.

The staging hit Trump at a sensitive point. He had come to hold political talks, to invoke the special relationship between London and Washington, to present himself as a statesman - but instead he stood in the first headline of his visit side by side with a dead sex offender whose name and fate are inextricably linked with his own life. That this happened in front of Windsor Castle of all places, a stage that receives worldwide attention, made the action an unmistakable disruption.

While Trump tried with his advisers to keep the planned course of his stay on track, the images had long since found their way into all major news channels. They were more than a provocation: they reminded the world that the Epstein complex is not a closed chapter but an indelible part of his biography that activists and opponents repeatedly bring back into consciousness. For many observers, the projection was a blow of calculated precision - not a chaotic protest banner but a statement that united British restraint and American sharpness in a single light image. Trump, who otherwise dominates the stage so confidently, became the projection surface in both the literal and figurative sense. He could not determine what was shown, he had to endure it.

Thus his visit to England began with an image that will be remembered: a president wrestling with the past while activists reminded him on the walls of Windsor Castle of those connections he would most like to erase from collective memory. A beginning that brought not splendor but gravity - and showed that even abroad the ghosts he hopes to forget catch up with him again.