Trump jeered with boos and shouts of “lock him up” at NYC Veterans’ Day rally
BY VINNIE LONGOBARDO
PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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The ballyhoo over the booing of Donald Trump bulldozed its way into New York City’s Veterans’ Day parade today as the president made his way back to the hometown he recently announced he was abandoning to speak to the crowd assembled in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
With Trump having faced sustained jeers at both a World Series game in Washington DC and a UFC match at Madison Square Garden in New York, appearing at an outdoor public event in a city where he is generally regarded as reviled as the cockroach and rat population of the metropolis was a risky move for a president who thrives on mass adulation and bears little patience for criticism.
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Trump mitigated that risk by appearing at a podium surrounded by bulletproof glass while reportedly wearing a bulletproof vest that amplified his considerable girth.
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The president may have calculated that he’d be able to coax at least some cheers from a crowd at an event celebrating veterans and — with representatives of the metropolitan area’s small minority of Trump supporters arriving early at the park to pepper the crowd with a smattering of MAGA hats — his obligatory comments praising veterans — read from a teleprompter — did draw some applause, according to media accounts.
Restive resisters in New York made their presence loudly and visibly known, however, as boos, jeers, and chants of “lock him up,” “traitor,” “impeach,” and that Game of Thrones favorite, “shame” echoed across the walls of the city’s concrete canyons.
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Meanwhile, office workers in a nearby building plastered large signs reading “impeach” and “convict” on the highly visible windows across from the stage the president occupied.
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The New York Times spoke to one protestor at the event carrying an “Operation Bone Spur” sign to highlight the hypocrisy of the draft-dodging president addressing an event dedicated to those who weren’t too cowardly to serve their country or at least weren’t rich enough to buy their way out of the then-obligatory military service.
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Donald Trump may have had a brief respite from the fury of a public outraged over his abuse of power, extortion, and obstruction of justice when he attended the carefully-stage managed college football game in the deep-red state of Alabama this weekend — where the university admission threatened students with a loss of seating privileges if they booed — but the response in New York City — where the public has known and hated him for the longest period — demonstrates the reaction the president should expect whenever he ventures out in public beyond his safe spaces in these post-impeachment inquiry times.
It’s hard to argue that he doesn’t deserve every bit of it.
BY VINNIE LONGOBARDO
PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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The ballyhoo over the booing of Donald Trump bulldozed its way into New York City’s Veterans’ Day parade today as the president made his way back to the hometown he recently announced he was abandoning to speak to the crowd assembled in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
With Trump having faced sustained jeers at both a World Series game in Washington DC and a UFC match at Madison Square Garden in New York, appearing at an outdoor public event in a city where he is generally regarded as reviled as the cockroach and rat population of the metropolis was a risky move for a president who thrives on mass adulation and bears little patience for criticism.
Add your name to the millions demanding accountability of the president. Tell Speaker Pelosi and the House: Launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump!
Trump mitigated that risk by appearing at a podium surrounded by bulletproof glass while reportedly wearing a bulletproof vest that amplified his considerable girth.
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Behind bullet-proof glass, wearing a bulletproof vest. #CadetBoneSpurs https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1193914693032779779 …
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Trump appears to be giving his Veterans Day speech from inside a hockey penalty box
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The president may have calculated that he’d be able to coax at least some cheers from a crowd at an event celebrating veterans and — with representatives of the metropolitan area’s small minority of Trump supporters arriving early at the park to pepper the crowd with a smattering of MAGA hats — his obligatory comments praising veterans — read from a teleprompter — did draw some applause, according to media accounts.
Restive resisters in New York made their presence loudly and visibly known, however, as boos, jeers, and chants of “lock him up,” “traitor,” “impeach,” and that Game of Thrones favorite, “shame” echoed across the walls of the city’s concrete canyons.
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Protesting Trump at the NYC Veteran’s Day Parade. Trump deports vets, fires them (Vindman), and privatizes their health insurance.
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Meanwhile, office workers in a nearby building plastered large signs reading “impeach” and “convict” on the highly visible windows across from the stage the president occupied.
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The New York Times spoke to one protestor at the event carrying an “Operation Bone Spur” sign to highlight the hypocrisy of the draft-dodging president addressing an event dedicated to those who weren’t too cowardly to serve their country or at least weren’t rich enough to buy their way out of the then-obligatory military service.
The large presence of protestors apparently inspired the Secret Service to think better of an initial plan for Trump to emerge from his protective enclosure to lay a wreath at a veterans’ memorial in Madison Square Park, so the president and his wife Melania chose instead to simply watch the ceremony safely from the stage.
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Anti-Trump chanting on megaphone couldn’t be heard at the ceremony after the first few minutes of Trump’s speech. Bagpipes drowning out most of the background noise now.
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It was initially reported that Trump would lay a wreath at a memorial in the park after his Veterans Day speech. He and the first lady watched that part of the ceremony from the stage.
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Donald Trump may have had a brief respite from the fury of a public outraged over his abuse of power, extortion, and obstruction of justice when he attended the carefully-stage managed college football game in the deep-red state of Alabama this weekend — where the university admission threatened students with a loss of seating privileges if they booed — but the response in New York City — where the public has known and hated him for the longest period — demonstrates the reaction the president should expect whenever he ventures out in public beyond his safe spaces in these post-impeachment inquiry times.
It’s hard to argue that he doesn’t deserve every bit of it.
