PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Plenty of fire and fury greeted President Trump along Fifth Ave. in Manhattan on Monday [8-14-17] when he made his first visit home since he took office seven months ago.
Thousands of protesters rallied outside the iconic Trump Tower skyscraper where the President is staying, while another group nearby staged a mock ‘die-in’ and funeral for American values before marching to the main event.
Trump touched down at JFK about 8:30 p.m. and then boarded a helicopter for a quick ride to lower Manhattan, where a car took him to his Fifth Ave. home.
A deafening chorus of ‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’ rang out from protesters as the presidential motorcade entered a white tent covering the 56th St. underground entrance to Trump’s building.
Chants of ‘Lock him up!’ and ‘New York hates you!’ followed.
The crowds waiting for Trump had gathered hours earlier, fueled by outrage over the weekend’s deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and the President’s initial refusal to condemn the white supremacists involved.
An inflatable caricature of Trump as a big rat swayed above pedestrians near Grand Army Plaza on Fifth Ave. and 59th St.
A small group of roughly 16 pro-Trump supporters, penned in by police near the rat caricature, taunted demonstrators by shouting ‘Make America white again’ and waving flags. Demonstrators also had to stay inside police pens in front of Trump Tower…
By 11 p.m., the protests had mostly dispersed — and Trump took to Twitter to express his delight at being back in the city.”
-Kerry Burke, Noah Goldberg, and Ginger Adams Otis, “Thousands of angry New Yorkers flood Midtown streets to protest President’s return to Trump Tower,” The New York Daily News, Aug. 15, 2017 11:54am