Around the 300 people gathered outside the US Consulate General in Edinburgh to protest at Donald Trump's inauguration.

Protestors waved banners, including one with Trump's face painted with Scottish flag stating "Donald Dinnae Comb-Over' Here" and another saying "Trump Making America Hate Again".

Trump's mother was from the Isle of Lewis, and he owns two golf courses in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire.

The protest included an “excommunication ceremony” by an organisation called The Order of Perpetual Indulgence, which describes itself as “a worldwide order of queer people of all sexualities”.

One elaborately dressed bearded protestor with white facepaint, who gave his name as ‘Sister Ann Ticipation’, said: “We were excommunicating him from the great divine for promulgating negativity, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and everything he has done which does not serve the interests of the community.”

Don Glickstein, 62, originally from London, a lecturer at Edinburgh College, said: “Like millions of people around the globe we are shocked that Donald Trump has become US President and we are here to show support to all those people in the US who are really going to suffer because of what he is planning to do.

“The fact that he’s probably paying poverty wages to people in Scotland does not endear me to him.

“I don’t like his Islamophobia, his racism, his attitude women is absolutely shocking, and he’s proud of it.

Proud of my folks back home in my city of birth.

Anti #Trump protest march in #Edinburgh #Scotland pic.twitter.com/nZMi9aSOE7 — DivaKnevil ❄️ (@DivaKnevil) January 20, 2017

“He’s also expressed a readiness to use nuclear weapons, which really frightens me.

“He will not get away with it. One man can be stopped if a lot of people are prepared to stop him.”

Hanna Moy, 28, who is from Texas and teaches in Glasgow, said: “I find it incredibly disturbing that Trump is being treated as a legitimate president after the violent racism, mysoginy and confessing to assaulting women, it’s a disgrace that he’s going to be in a position of power.

Might be over 3,000 miles away but this definitely says a lot. (Anti-Trump Rally - Edinburgh, UK) pic.twitter.com/gYuPUInQbu — Molly Simmons (@Baggy_tr0users_) January 20, 2017

“It’s a dark day for democracy when someone who didn’t win the popular vote is leading the nation.

“As a Texan I grew up in a state that had problems with racism, but I thought that America was moving forward and to see things slipping back to the way they were when I was a child is atrocious and terrifying.

“I am also gay, and when I was growing up it was still illegal to be gay in Texas, until the Supreme Court decision in 2003.

“To see things go from illegality to equal marriage, and then to see Trump getting so many anti-gay politicians in his cabinet after saying he was going to support the gay community, I find it terrifying, really disturbing for the human rights of LGBT people.”