For a brief moment, Trump comes face-to-face with political reality
The night after President Trump won the 2016 election, he was at home in Trump Tower — and probably not too eager to head outside. He probably couldn’t see the surrounding streets from his penthouse windows, but he might have been able to hear the crowds filling them: a spontaneous and uproarious gathering serving as catharsis for the many voters in the city for whom the outcome was not what was hoped. (That includes the precinct around Trump Tower itself, which Trump lost by 38 points.)
It was one of the last times since then that Trump would have to deal with a hostile crowd, thanks to his aggressive embrace of a hyperfriendly political bubble.
On Thursday morning, we saw one of the rare exceptions. Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Supreme Court to pay their respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who died last week. When Trump emerged from the building, within view of the assembled crowd, a rumble of opposition emerged. Soon, it became a chant: “Vote him out.” Trump was likely thankful that, for once, he was wearing a mask; no reaction was visible on his face.
Other incidents in which he’s faced public opprobrium can be counted on one hand: boos at his inauguration, boos at a Nationals baseball game last year and, again, at a UFC event a few days later, and, unusually, boos after disparaging the press at an international summit in Switzerland in 2018. Beyond that, opposition manifested directly to Trump’s face is rare precisely because he rarely gets his face in front of hostile critics.
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