Chaos and 'New York Values' at Manhattan's Donald Trump Protest
http://www.vice.com/read/in-defense-of-donald-trumps-new-york-values
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On Thursday night, inside Manhattan's Grand Hyatt Hotel, a ballroom full of wealthy Republican bigwigs poked at their $1,000 plates of Parmesan-loaded salads and mozzarella balls, and listened as Donald J. Trump told them about his life.
It was a classic, Trumpian dose of incoherency and braggadocio perfectly tailored for the night's event, an annual fundraising dinner known as the New York Republican Gala. In story after rambling story, Trump regaled the audience with tales of early childhood dreams of condos, explained how he deals with his foes ("I won't say his namebut his name was Richard Ravitch."
, and listed off his many, many business accomplishments, beginning with his 1976 renovation of the very hotel they were all sitting in.
"Who the hell wants to talk about politics?" the Rpublican presidential frontrunner asked the audience. "Politics is boring."After going on like this for a while, Trump then turned to his notesa rare move for the reality-TV star turned populist crusader. "I want to just talk, just for a second, about New York values," he began, before launching into a lengthy, semi-scripted tangent about his home state and its many attributes. Everyone in the room knew he was attacking Ted Cruz, reappropriating the dog-whistle criticism the Texas Senator has used to imply Trump's blue-state Otherness.
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They describe the protest as becoming "massive" between Lexington and Park Aves. but, as anyone who's been there knows - that's not a real big amount of territory but exactly one average sized block. (??)