Finnish Newspaper Lines Trump's Route in Helsinki With Ads Celebrating Press Freedom

Nearly 300 displays were created for the summit with Putin

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While President Donald Trump’s visit to the U.K. was met with widespread protest, some of his critics in Finland took another approach to sending the polarizing world leader a message.

Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat created a massive outdoor ad campaign, focused along Trump’s route to his Helsinki summit today with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The stark ads, featuring only black text on white backgrounds, celebrated the importance of a free press, with some messages aimed directly at the world leaders, while others shared headlines from recent years about the two presidents’ frequent hostility toward journalists.

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