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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Instead of John Cusak holding up a boombox, it was 1/2 million women with "Eat shit, Trump signs"
Imagine knowing your hometown hates you so much that more than 400,000 of its residents will march to your front door just to get the message across.
There's one New Yorker who doesn't need to imagine. Last SaturdayDonald Trump's first full day as presidentthe scene outside his window was like the boombox scene in Say Anything..., except instead of John Cusack holding a boombox it was nearly half a million women holding signs with slogans like "Eat shit, Trump."
Trump's two primary residencesmidtown Manhattan, where he has lived for thirty-something years, and downtown Washington, D.C., where he has lived for seven daysbecame sites of enormous, sprawling protest. The main event was in Washington: More than half a million people descended on the National Mall for the women's march. The gathering easily engulfed the size of Trump's own inauguration one day prior, with mothers and daughters and their allies traveling from as far as Iowa or San Francisco to march. It was the largest inaugural protest in U.S. history, and it generated satellite marches across the country and the world (even Antarctica!).
In fact, hating Donald Trump has long been a pastime in this city. "To native New Yorkers, he is more like a burr under the skin that has been irritating us for years," wrote Joyce Purnick back in 2011. (With equal parts fondness and disgust, she recalled the days when he was just "the neighborhood hellion" in Queens.) Trump is a New York institution in the way that Times Square or cronuts are New York institutions: irritating cultural signifiers that are both ubiquitous and roundly mocked by New Yorkers for their unbridled tackiness. Except cronuts arent running the country. At last weekend's march, decades of distaste culminated in massive demonstrations. Protesters thronged Fifth Avenue in such high concentration that it took 20 minutes just to walk a block. Among the more colorfully worded signs I spotted: "Eat shit, Trump"; "He's got 65,844,954 problems & this bitch is one"; "President Dump"; "I used to like Cheetos"; "Impeach the Cheat-O; NYC will never accept you; and Kiss my Muslim ass.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/donald-trump-a-president-despised-in-his-own-hometown/
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"Instead of John Cusak holding up a boombox, it was 1/2 million women with "Eat shit, Trump signs" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2017
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mcar
(42,331 posts)1. K&R
NBachers
(17,110 posts)2. He is despised in his home town of New York, where he craves acceptance. His soul is cinder ash
and his guts are churning with curdled hate.
Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)3. Your comment reminded me of this..
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)4. There should be a group of protesters
assigned AROUND THE CLOCK, 7 DAYS A WEEK to Trump tower.