Sri Lankan rights activists demonstrate outside the US Embassy in Colombo on January 20, 2017, ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. / AFP PHOTO
The waxwork was displayed for around 30 minutes outside Deoksugung palace in central Seoul. Meanwhile most Asian markets turned lower as nervous investors await the inauguration of Donald Trump, while there was little early reaction to data showing a further slowdown in China’s economic growth last year. / AFP PHOTO

Protestors gesture outside the National Press Club where the Deplorable Ball is being held in Washington, DC on January 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO

An activist holds up a sign at the “We Stand United” rally on the eve of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration outside Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York on January 19, 2017 in New York.

Activists from the ëBridges not Wallsí movement display messages on Tower Bridge in London on January 20, 2017 to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.
Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20 — capping his improbable journey to the White House and beginning a four-year term that promises to shake up Washington and the world. The Bridges not Walls movement dropped banners with themed messages from London bridges across the Thames as an act of defiance against Trump’s inauguration and to amplify their message against what they say is a rise of new far right politics in western democracies. / AFP PHOTO

Security guards try to stop photos being taken of an anarchist, who as part of the disrupt J20 movement, protests the Donald Trump presidency by chaining himself to the front gate of the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong on January 20, 2017.
Refusing to give his name or nationality but identifying himself as “Snufkin”, the bearded man in his late 30s said Trump “represents everything bad in the world”. / AFP PHOTO

Sri Lankan rights activists demonstrate outside the US Embassy in Colombo on January 20, 2017, ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. / AFP PHOTO

Sri Lankan rights activists demonstrate outside the US Embassy in Colombo on January 20, 2017, ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. / AFP PHOTO

Sri Lankan rights activists demonstrate outside the US Embassy in Colombo on January 20, 2017, ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. / AFP PHOTO
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