Protests against Donald Trump

Protests against Donald Trump
From top to bottom: Protestors in St. Paul, Minnesota, a protest near the United Nations Plaza in San Francisco, and Chicago, Illinois
Date	June 16, 2015 – present (7007464184000000000♠1 year, 172 days)
Location	United States
Causes	Donald Trump's presidential campaign
Methods	Demonstration, riots, Internet activism, political campaigning
Result	Protests ongoing Escalation following the Presidential election results
Number
Presidential campaign Thousands of protesters Chicago protest 2,500+[1] Los Angeles protest 1,000–3,000[2][3][4] New York protest 1,500–2,000[5] Post-election Hundreds of thousands[6] Presidential campaign Thousands of supporters Chicago rally 6,000[1]
Casualties
Injuries	37+[7][8][9]
Arrested	124+ (including a CBS News reporter)[7]

Protests against Donald Trump, or anti-Trump protests, have occurred throughout the United States during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and in the wake of his victory in the U.S. presidential election.

During his presidential campaign, activists occasionally organized demonstrations inside Trump's rallies, sometimes with calls to shut the rallies down;^[10][11][12] fueled by some of Trump's language,^[13] protesters began to attend his rallies displaying signs and disrupting proceedings.^[14][15] Following Trump's election to the presidency, students and activists organized larger protests in several major cities across the United States, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Portland, and Oakland. Tens of thousands of protesters participated,^[16][17][18] with many chanting "Not my president!" to express their opposition to Trump's victory.^[19]

Debate began regarding the United States' electoral college system after the election because Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton lost the election while winning the popular vote. Detractors of the system say that popular votes represent the nation as a whole, whilst supporters of the electoral college say that the system prevents candidates from only focusing on large metropolitan areas for votes.^[20]

Protests and altercations summary

During Trump's presidential campaign, many protesters were part of organized groups such as Black Lives Matter.^[21][22] They sometimes attempted to enter the venue or engage in activities outside the venue. Interactions with supporters of the candidate may occur before, during, or after the event.^[23] At times, protesters attempted to rush the stage at Trump's rallies.^[24] At times, protests turned violent and anti-Trump protesters have attacked Trump supporters; this violence has received bipartisan condemnation.^[25] MoveOn.org, People for Bernie, the Muslim Students' Association, Assata's Daughters, the Black Student Union, Fearless Undocumented Alliance, and Black Lives Matter were among the organizations who sponsored or promoted the protests at the March 11 Chicago Trump rally.^{[10][26][27][28]}

There were reports of verbal and physical confrontations between Trump supporters and protesters at Trump's campaign events.^[29][30]

The key objective of protesters before the election was to stop Trump from becoming the presidential candidate of the Republican Party on the grounds that he was unfit to be president, and then to stop him from being elected President on the same grounds, after he became the Republican Party's presidential candidate.^[31]

Timeline

2015

Protests against Trump began following the announcement of his candidacy in June 2015, especially after he said that immigrants from Mexico were "bringing drugs, bringing crime, they're rapists".^[32][33] The protests proceeded through 2015 and into 2016.

June

• June 17 – At Trump's first rally in New Hampshire, three protesters enter the rally and hold up signs. This is the first documented protest of the campaign.^[34][35]
• June 29 – At a luncheon in Chicago, about 100 protesters gathered across from the City Club of Chicago to demonstrate.^[32]

July

• July 9 – In Washington, D.C., a group of protesters gathered outside of the future Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. to demonstrate and "call for a worldwide boycott of Trump properties and TV shows".^[36]
• July 10 – While Trump spoke at a Friends of Abe gathering, about 150 protesters gathered with signs and hitting piñatas made in Trump's image. A smaller group of Trump supporters gathered near the protests and caused tension, with one Trump supporter beginning to jab at protesters.^[37]
• July 12 – Protesters interrupted Trump at a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, with a large sign and were later escorted out while Trump supporters chanted "U-S-A!".^[38]
• July 23 – Trump arrived in Laredo, Texas, and was greeted by protesters while others gathered in support.^[39]

August

• August 11 – About 150 protesters gathered in Birch Run, Michigan outside of a rally at the Birch Run Expo Center, gathered by the Democratic Party of Michigan due to what they called "anti-immigrant, anti-veteran statements" made by Trump.^[40]
• August 25 – During a press conference, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos began to question Trump since before being called on. After being told "Sit down! you weren't called" and "Go back to Univision", Ramos continued to protest Trump's plan to deport illegal immigrants and their children born into citizenship in the U.S. Trump motioned to his security, with Keith Schiller removing Ramos from the event. Trump later met with Ramos alone.^[41][42][43]

September

• September 3 – Trump's chief of security, Keith Schiller, was filmed punching a protester.^[44]

October

• October 14 – In Richmond, Virginia, several clashes broke out between protesters and Trump supporters.^[45]

November

• November 7 – Over 200 protesters, many of them Latino, demonstrated outside of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where Trump was hosting Saturday Night Live.^[46]

December

• December 4 – After being interrupted ten times during a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trump ended his rally.^[47]
• December 12 – Multiple protesters heckled Trump during a rally in Aiken, South Carolina.^[48]
• December 22 – Trump's speech was interrupted more than ten times at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with dozens of protesters being ejected. Trump characterized the protesters as "drugged out", antagonized them by calling them "so weak for not fighting security", and asked protesters why they interrupted him "in a group of 9,000 maniacs that want to kill them".^[49]

2016

January

• January 4 – Protesters interrupted Trump several times in Lowell, Massachusetts, with some chanting support for Bernie Sanders and the Black Lives Matter movement.^[50]
• January 8 – During Trump's visit to Burlington, Vermont, about 700 protesters demonstrated in the City Hall Park.^[51]

February

• February 27 – In Valdosta, Georgia, 30 Valdosta State University students were asked to leave a college venue leased by the Trump campaign for a speech.^[52][53]
• February 29 – At a rally, veteran photojournalist Chris Morris was grabbed by his throat and thrown to the ground by a member of the Secret Service.^[54]

March

• March 1 – Kashiya Nwanguma attended a Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, with two anti-Trump signs. She reported that Trump supporters ripped her signs away and shouted insults at her.^[55]
• March 10 – As Trump was being led by police from a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a protester was punched by a Trump supporter. Charges of assault and battery were filed by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.^[56][57][58] A protester being led by police from a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sucker punched by John McGraw, a Trump supporter. McGraw later told the media that the next time he saw the protester, "we might have to kill him."^[59] McGraw was subsequently charged with assault and battery.^[56][58][60] On Meet the Press, Trump said that he had instructed his team to look into paying McGraw's legal fees and said, "He obviously loves his country."^[59]
• March 11 – During a rally in St. Louis, at which Trump was "repeatedly interrupted by protesters, violence broke out between supporters of Trump and protesters, resulting in 32 arrests."^[61][62] A planned event for later that day in Chicago drew confrontations between supporters and protesters in the arena at the University of Illinois at Chicago before Trump could come out to speak, due to an unusually large amount of protesters, and the campaign cancelled the rally due to safety concerns. Trump stated that he made the decision himself, commenting, "I didn't want to see people get hurt [so] I decided to postpone the rally."^{[63][64][65][66][67]}
• March 12 – Thomas Dimassimo, a 32-year-old man, attempted to rush the stage as Trump was speaking at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. Dimassimo was stopped by Secret Service agents and subsequently charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and inducing panic.^[68]
• March 13 – Trump refused to take responsibility for clashes at his campaign events, criticized protesters who have dogged his rallies, and demanded that police begin to arrest rally protesters.^[69] His Kansas City rally was interrupted repeatedly by protesters in the arena while protesters outside the event were pepper sprayed by police.^[70][71] In an effort to dissuade future protesters, Trump may begin to request that protesters be arrested "[b]ecause then their lives are going to be ruined."^[71]
• March 17 – During an interview with CNN, Trump predicted "you'd have riots" if were denied the Republican nomination despite having the most delegates at the convention.^[72]
• March 18 – Between 500 and 600 people engaged in a standoff outside of a rally in Salt Lake City, Utah. Police officers formed a human barricade to separate the two groups, who largely remained nonviolent. Towards the end of the rally, protesters tore down a security tent at a Trump rally in Utah and threw rocks at rally attendees as they left. Two people unsuccessfully attempted to breach the entrance of the venue. Secret Service officers secured the inside of the venue and roughly 40 police officers in riot gear repelled the protesters from entering the building.^[73] No arrests were made.^[74][75]
• March 19 – Thousands of anti-Trump protesters in New York chanted "Fuck Trump!" and "Donald Trump! Go away!" as they rallied around the Trump International Tower building near 60th St. and Columbus Circle. The group was followed by dozens of NYPD officers who lined the streets with metal barricades and blocked the protesters path as they tried to cross busy intersections. After violence broke out, police pepper-sprayed the crowd, whom police refused to let cross the street.^[76] During a simultaneous protest, protesters blocked a highway leading to Trump's Fountain Hills, Arizona rally, leading to three arrests.^[77] During a separate rally in Tucson, Arizona later that night, a black Trump supporter was arrested after punching and stomping a white protester who had donned a Ku Klux Klan hood.^[78]

April

• April 14 – Hundreds of protesters gathered in a New York City Hyatt hotel against the wishes of the hotel staff.^[79]
• April 24 – Sean Morkys, a 20-year-old man, was arrested and charged for threatening to bomb a Trump rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut.^[80]
• April 26 – Clashes between Trump supporters protesting an anti-Trump resolution and anti-Trump protesters in Anaheim resulted in five Trump supporters, including two children, being pepper-sprayed.^[81]
• April 28 – Several hundred protesters in Costa Mesa, California, clashed with police and Trump supporters outside the OC Fair & Event Center, where Trump was holding a rally. Seventeen people were arrested and five police cars were damaged.^[82]
• April 29 – Around 1,000 to 3,000^[2][3][4] protested in the area surrounding Burlingame, California, where Trump was to give a speech at the California GOP convention.^[83] Protesters rushed security gates at one point and were seen harassing Trump supporters.^[84] Activists blocked a main intersection outside the event and vandalized a police car. Eventually, the police restored order in the area.^[85] For safety reasons, Trump himself was forced to climb over a wall and enter through a back entrance of the venue.^[86]

May

• May 1 – Thousands of May Day demonstrators marched in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, some speaking out in support of workers and immigrants, others criticizing Trump. LAPD Sergeant Barry Montgomery told The Los Angeles Times that no one was arrested. Some protesters carried a big inflatable figure of Trump holding a Ku Klux Klan hood in his right hand.^[87]
• May 7 – Protesters shouting "Love Trumps Hate" met Trump supporters before his second rally in Washington. Many protesters outside spoke out against Trump's words and policy stances regarding women, Hispanics, and Muslims, including his plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Later in the day, a group of protesters blocked a road near where Trump was supposed to speak, hoping to keep him from reaching the location. According to authorities, "a small number of arrests" were made.^[88]
• May 24 – Following a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, protesters began throwing rocks and bottles at police and police horses, smashed a glass door at the convention center, and burned a number of Trump signs and flags, filling the street with smoke.^[89][90] Video footage of the incident also showed protesters jumping on top of several police cars.^[91]
• May 25 – Anti-Trump protesters were arrested after clashing with Trump supporters in Anaheim.^[92]
• May 27 – Anti-Trump protesters clashed with Trump supporters and with police after a Trump rally ended in San Diego. Protesters waved Mexican flags and signs supporting Bernie Sanders.^[93] Some protesters were arrested when they attempted to push past railings separating them from the Convention Center where Trump was speaking.^[94] The clashes, largely verbal and resulting in no injuries or property damage, began after the Trump rally ended and his supporters poured into the street. Individuals on both sides shouted and threw trash and the occasional punch, but no injuries or property damage were reported. Police then declared the protest an illegal assembly and ordered the crowd to disperse. Further arrests were made when some members of the crowd failed to disperse. A total of 35 people were arrested in that protest.^[93][94][95]

June

• June 2 – Protests and riots occurred outside a Trump rally in San Jose, California. During a series of protests, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters waving Mexican flags climbed on cars, and harassed supporters of Donald Trump. There were reports of violence including instances of bottles being thrown and assaults against Trump supporters.^[96][97] A police officer was assaulted.^[7][97][98] At least one American flag was burned by protesters.^[99] Video footage went viral of a female Trump supporter being pelted by eggs thrown by protesters.^[100]
• June 3 – Vox suspended writer Emmett Rensin for allegedly inciting anti-Trump violence at protests.^[101]
• June 10 – Anti-Trump protesters and Trump supporters clashed outside a rally in Richmond, Virginia. One Trump supporter was punched and several protesters were pushed to the ground by police. Five people were arrested but only one was charged.
• June 16 – A photographer for the Dallas Advocate was hit on head with a rock that had been thrown from a crowd outside a Dallas rally that included both Trump supporters and protesters.^[9]
• June 19 – During a rally in Las Vegas, Michael Sandford, a 19-year-old British national, was arrested for assault and held in the county jail until he was arraigned in federal court and charged with "an act of violence on restricted grounds." He was accused of attempting to seize a police officer's firearm and later claiming he intended to kill Trump. A British citizen, he was in the U.S. illegally and is being held without bond.^[102][103]

July

• July 1 – Three people were arrested after a conflict occurred between Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters outside the Western Conservative Summit. According to The Gazette, a man grabbed pro-Trump bumper stickers from a woman selling them outside Denver's convention center, ripped some of them, and threw them in her face. A pushing match then ensued, with many people spilling into the street.^[104]

August

• August 4 – Protesters stood silently among seated attendees at a Portland, Maine Trump rally, and held up pocket Constitutions, in reference to Khizr Khan's DNC speech days earlier. The protesters were ejected from the rally.^[105]
• August 19 – Protesters harassed, pushed, and spit on Trump supporters outside a fundraising event in Minneapolis.^[106]
• August 31 – A group of approximately 500 people protested in downtown Phoenix, Arizona chanting and hitting a Trump piñata. There were no arrests, although police had to usher two anti-Trump protesters off the sidewalk where speech-goers for a Trump rally entered the Phoenix Convention Center, saying that the protesters were causing conflict with the Trump supporters.^[107]

October

• October 10 – Dave Eggers and Jordan Kurland launched the all-star music project 30 Days, 30 Songs, scheduled to publish one song per day advocating against Donald Trump.^[108][109] Due to overwhelming response of more artists, the project was meanwhile renamed and rescheduled to 30 Days, 40 Songs and 30 Days, 50 Songs. Musicians include stars like R.E.M., Moby, Franz Ferdinand, Jimmy Eat World, Loudon Wainwright and many others.^[110]
• October 18 – Dozens of women, some who are sexual assault survivors, gathered in front of Trump Tower on a Tuesday morning to begin a series of protests across the nation pushing women to leave the Republican party and un-endorse Donald Trump. Dressed in black, the protesters sat in front of Trump Tower holding signs such as "Grab my pussy, muthafucker I dare you" and "Don't tread on my pussy".^[111]
• October 26 – Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed with a sledgehammer and a pickaxe.^[112]

November

• November 5 – During a rally at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, Trump was rushed off stage by Secret Service agents when someone yelled "gun" while others tried to take a protester's anti-Trump sign. The protester was questioned and found to have no weapons on him. Trump returned minutes later to resume his rally.^[113][114]

Post-election protests

Following the announcement of Trump's election, large protests broke out across the United States with some continuing for several days, and more protests planned for the coming weeks and months.^[115][116]

Protesters have held up a number of different signs and chanted various shouts including "Not my president" and "We don't accept the president-elect".^[116][117] The movement organized on Twitter under the hashtags #Anti-trump and #NotMyPresident.^[118][119]

Comparisons regarding the size and extent of the protests have been made to the Arab Spring.^[120]

November 9

Protests against Donald Trump that occurred in cities on November 9, 2016
Atlanta Ann Arbor Chicago Cleveland Dallas Dallas Detroit Houston Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Nashville New York Oakland Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Portland Portland Providence Reno Richmond San Diego San Francisco San Jose Salt Lake City Seattle Syracuse Washington, D.C. Winston-Salem Des Moines

Protests occurred in several major cities, including, but not limited to:

High school and college students walked out of classes to protest.^[127][134] The protests were peaceful for the most part, although at some protests fires were lit, flags were burned, people yelled rude remarks about Trump, and a Trump piñata was burned.^{[135][136][137]} Celebrities such as Madonna, Cher, and Lady Gaga took part in New York.^{[138][139][140]} Some protesters took to blocking freeways in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Portland, Oregon, and were dispersed by police in the early hours of the morning.^[141][142] One protester was hit by a car.^[143] In a number of cities, protesters were dispersed with rubber bullets, pepper spray and bean-bags fired by police.^{[144][145][146]} While protests ended at 3:00 a.m. in New York City, calls were made to continue the protests over the coming days.^[147]

November 10

As Trump held the first transition meeting with President Obama at the White House, protesters were outside.^[148] Protests continued in cities across the United States. International protests were held in London, Vancouver, and Manila.^[149][150] Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani called protesters "a bunch of spoiled cry-babies."^[151] Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti expressed understanding of the protests and praised those who peacefully wanted to make their voices heard.^[152]

In Austin, Texas, a young girl rallied protesters behind the mantra: "I am a female, I am mixed race, I am a child and I cannot vote. But that will not stop me from getting heard" after which chants of "Love is love, and love trumps hate" followed.^{[153][154][155][156]} In Los Angeles, protesters continued blocking freeways.^[157] A peaceful protest turned violent when a small group began rioting and attacking police in Portland, Oregon.^[158] The protests in Portland attracted over 4,000 people and remained largely peaceful, but took to the highway and blocked traffic.^[159] Acts of vandalism including a number of smashed windows, vandalized vehicles, and a dumpster fire caused police to declare a riot.^[159][160] Protesters tried to retain the peaceful nature of the protest and chanted "peaceful protest".^[161]

In Chicago, a Trump supporter named David Wilcox was harassed by a group of young African-American men who noticed the Trump bumper sticker on his car. The group eventually shoved Wilcox to the ground and repeatedly beat him, before one of them stole his car with Wilcox hanging onto the window from outside.^[162][163]

Protests were held in the following cities:

Numerous petitions were started to prevent Trump from taking office; including a Change.org petition started by Elijah Berg of North Carolina requesting that faithless electors in states that Trump won vote for Clinton instead, which surpassed three million signatures.^[180]

November 11

Protests occurred in the following cities:

Protests also occurred at the following schools:

A protest also occurred at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.^[214][215] The American and Mexican national soccer teams also posed together in a Unity Wall in response to Trump's election before their World Cup qualifying match in Columbus, Ohio.^[216]

November 12

During a peaceful march in Oregon in the early hours of November 12, one protester was shot by an unknown assailant.^[217] Police in Portland, Oregon, said that they have arrested more than twenty people after protesters refused to disperse.^[218]

On the first weekend day after the election, a march of over 10,000 people in Los Angeles went from MacArthur Park and shut down the busy Wilshire Blvd corridor.^[219][220] In New York City, another crowd cited by NBC News as 25,000^[221] marched from Union Square to Trump Tower.^{[115][222][223]} In Chicago, thousands of people marched through The Loop.^[224]

International protests also occurred in cities such as Berlin, Germany, Melbourne and Perth, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.^{[225][226][227][228]}

November 13

Protests continued in the following cities:

International protests have occurred in cities including Toronto, Canada, where about a thousand people gathered in Nathan Phillips Square.^[233][234]

November 14

A group of 40 protesters in Washington, D.C. staged a sit-in at the office of prospective Senate minority leader Charles Schumer, in an effort to change Democratic leadership and prevent the party's collaboration with Trump. Seventeen arrests were made at that sit-in.^[235]

At a small protest at Ohio State University, protest leader Timothy Adams was attacked from behind and knocked down to the steps he was standing on, breaking his bullhorn and glasses.^[236][237]

Several school districts experienced walkouts from high school students, many of them too young to have voted.^[238]

November 15

Student protests occurred in the following cities and universities:

• Montgomery County, Maryland^[239]
• New York City^[240]
• Penn State University^[241]
• Rutgers University^[242]
• St. Mary's College of California^[243]
• Stanford University^[244]
• University of California, Riverside^[245]
• University of Chicago^[246]
• University of Illinois at Chicago^[247]
• Washington, D.C.^[240][248]

Other protests occurred in:

• Akron, Ohio^[249]
• Beltsville, Maryland^[250]
• Kalamazoo, Michigan^[251]
• Santa Barbara, California^[252]

November 16

Student protests continued for a third day in Montgomery County, Maryland.^[239]

Students around the country walked out of classes in an effort to push their schools to declare themselves a "sanctuary campus" from Trump's planned immigration policy of mass deportations.^[253] The Stanford, Rutgers, and St. Mary's protests on November 15 were among the first.^[243] Rutgers President Robert Barchi responded that the school will protect the privacy of its undocumented immigrants.^[254] California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White made a similar affirmation.^[255] Iowa State University reaffirmed continuation of their already existing policy.^[256]

Around 350 Harvard University faculty members signed a letter urging the administration to denounce hate speech, protect student privacy, reaffirm admissions and financial aid policies and to make the university a sanctuary. One of the first to sign the letter was Henry Louis Gates Jr.^[257]

The Idaho Secretary of State reported that Idaho's four GOP electors are being aggressively lobbied to abandon Trump, with phone calls "crossing into what could reasonably be considered harassment."^[258] The letters of Trump's name were also removed from three buildings in Manhattan, including Trump Place due to angered residents.^[259]

November 17

• In the early morning in Los Angeles, protesters chanted "Fire Bannon" in reference to Trump appointing Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist and senior counselor on Sunday.^[260][261] After the appointment, Bannon was trying to divert accusations of his being a "white nationalist."^[262][263]
• In Washington, D.C., protesters stormed the GSA building lobby holding signs that read "Fire Bannon".^[264]
• Two students were arrested at a protest at the University of Pittsburgh^[265]
• A rally was held at the University of Miami^[266]
• Around 100 students protested at Portland State University^[267]

November 18

• Students from several high schools in Prince George's County, Maryland walked out of class in a coordinated protest.^[268]
• About 300 protesters gathered in Cleveland's Public Square and marched through downtown Cleveland.^[269][270]
• Hundreds of protesters blocked a major intersection in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.^[271]
• Protesters marched to the state capitol in Sacramento, California.^[272] A protest was also held at the state capitol in Augusta, Maine.^[273]
• A group of protesters were outside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. where the white nationalist think tank National Policy Institute was meeting inside to celebrate Trump's victory. The crowd outside chanted things like "No Donald Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!." A video crew from the NPI meeting came outside, asking a man in the crowd if he was a "self-hating white person." A scuffle ensued, the NPI photographer emerged with a gash in his forehead and was taken away in an ambulance.^[274]
• Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended the musical Hamilton in New York City, where he encountered protests.^[275]

November 19

• About 3,000 formed a hand holding ring around Green Lake in Seattle, Washington.^[276]
• In Chicago, approximately 2,000 protesters marched from Federal Plaza to Trump Tower Chicago.^{[277][278][279][280]}
• Several hundred protesters rallied and marched in downtown San Francisco.^[281]
• In New York City, three separate protests converged on the heavily secured area surrounding Trump Tower in New York City, where security guided them into a demonstration pen that had been erected outside of the president elect's offices and residence. One group marched from Queens.^[282] One group protesting Trump's appointment of Bannon marched from Washington Square Park. A smaller but more dramatic group wearing stage special effects makeup of wounds and scars, marched from Union Square to indicate the damage a Trump administration will have on "marginalized people" including women.^[283]
• International protests occurred in Toronto, Canada, where at least one man was arrested;^[284] Melbourne, Australia;^[285] and Paris, France.^[286]

November 20

• A 69-year-old man dressed in a U.S. Marine uniform set himself on fire in the Highland Square in Akron, Ohio, after ranting about the need to protest Trump's election. He was hospitalized in stable condition.^[287][288]
• A protest in Brooklyn Heights attracted Adam Horovitz to Adam Yauch Park (a park named after his late-Beastie Boys bandmate), where multiple spray painted swastikas and the message “Go Trump" had been discovered two days before.^[289] At the protest, Horovitz released a statement against Trump.^[290]
• A group called "Not Up For Grabs: Portland" marched in Portland, Oregon.^[291]
• During a live performance on the American Music Awards of 2016, Green Day performed their new song Bang Bang. In the middle of the song, lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong included the anti-Trump chant "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!"^[292]

November 21

• A rally was held outside the Rhode Island State House in Providence, Rhode Island.^[293]
• A protest was held in front of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.^[294]
• Protests continued outside Portland City Hall in Portland, Oregon, and a march was held later in the evening.^[295]

November 22

Students at Christopher Newport University protested.^[296]

November 23

A protest occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protesters called for President Obama to pardon all immigrants before the end of his term.^[297]

November 25

• On Black Friday, protesters blocked entrances to stores on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.^[298]

November 26

• A small protest occurred at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon. Protester Bobby Lang said, "It's either sit in horror or go out and do things."^[299]

November 27

• A protest occurred at the Nebraska State Capitol building.^[300] The crowd was estimated at around 200 people.^[301]

Response

Domestic reactions

Trump's reactions

During the campaign, Trump was accused by some of creating aggressive undertones at his rallies.^[303] Trump's Republican rivals blamed him for fostering a climate of violence, and escalating tension during events.^[304] Initially, Trump did not condemn the acts of violence that occurred at many of his rallies, and indeed encouraged them in some cases.^[56][305]

In November 2015, Trump said of a protester in Birmingham, Alabama, "Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing."^[306] In December, the campaign urged attendees not to harm protesters, but rather to alert law enforcement officers of them by holding signs above their head and yelling, "Trump! Trump! Trump!"^[307] Trump has been criticized for additional instances of fomenting an atmosphere conducive to violence through many of his comments. For example, Trump told a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that he would pay their legal fees if they engaged a protester.^[308]

On February 23, 2016, when a protester was ejected from a rally in Las Vegas, Trump stated, "I love the old days—you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks." He added, "I'd like to punch him in the face."^{[309][310][311]} Following criticism from the media over his language towards protesters, Trump began to backtrack and started encouraging supporters at rallies to not injure any protesters. He also admitted at his San Jose rally that he was wrong to make such inflammatory comments in the past.^[312]

After the election, Trump said on Twitter that the groups still protesting were professionals "incited by the media", and that the protests were "unfair".^[313] Trump later tweeted that he loved the passion the protesters had for America and that "We will all come together and be proud."^[314]

Security

From fairly early in the campaign the United States Secret Service assumed primary responsibility for Trump's security. They were augmented by state and local law enforcement as needed. When a venue was rented by the campaign, the rally was a private event and the campaign might grant or deny entry to it with no reason given; the only stipulation was that exclusion solely on the basis of race was forbidden. Those who entered or remained inside such a venue without permission were technically guilty of or liable for trespass.^[22] Attendees or the press could be assigned or restricted to particular areas in the venue.^[21]

In March 2016, Politico reported that the Trump campaign hired plainclothes private security guards to preemptively remove potential protesters from rallies.^[315] That same month, a group calling itself the "Lion Guard" was formed to offer "additional security" at Trump rallies. The group was quickly condemned by mainstream political activists as a paramilitary fringe organization.^[316]

After becoming President-elect security around Trump and his family became noticeably more stringent. Sources reported that there were concerns about the ability to secure Trump's Manhattan residence due to its location and the large number of people who live there as well as the number of people coming and going. Restrictions on private and commercial air traffic were imposed on airspace over Manhattan and other parts of the city until Inauguration Day.^[317][318]

Threatening the safety of the President of the United States, the Vice-President, President-Elect, Vice President-Elect, or any person under the protection of the Secret Service including presidential candidates is a criminal offense under Title 18 of the U.S. Code.^[319] Prominent public officials do, however, receive threats and these are routinely investigated by the Secret Service who carefully consider the nature of the threat and how serious it is. Many threats are uttered or written in the heat of the moment and do not always result in prosecution. During the campaign and subsequent to his election, Trump received a number of threats against his life.^[320]

International reactions

•  China – On November 14, 2016, the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco warned "Chinese exchange students, visiting students, teachers and volunteers" to avoid participating in the protests.^[321]
•  Turkey – The Government of Turkey warned its citizens who may be traveling to the United States to "be careful due to protests" and that occasionally "the protests turn violent and criminal while protesters [are] detained by security forces" while also stating that "racists and xenophobic incidents increased in USA".^[322]

Fraudulent ads on Craigslist

FOX News reported on a Craiglist advertisement that claimed to pay people $15 per hour, for up to four hours, if they took part in protests against Trump.^[323] The Pulitzer Prize-winning fact checking website, PolitiFact.com, rated a separate story titled "Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: 'I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trump's Rally'" as "100 percent fabricated, as its author acknowledges."^[324] Paul Horner, a writer for a fake news website, took credit for the article, and said he posted the hoax ad himself.^[325]

See also

• Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Reactions
• Conflicts of interest of President-elect Donald Trump

References

External links

• Media related to Demonstrations and protests against Donald Trump at Wikimedia Commons