NEW YORK (AP) — Supporters of President Donald Trump are convening near Trump Tower, the Washington Monument and several other places around the country in marches to show their pride in his presidency.
Saturday’s “March 4 Trump” demonstrations are also intended to show unity in the face of what organizers call “a seditious fringe” aiming to sabotage his vision for the country.
Supporters of President Donald Trump chant slogans during a March 4 Trump rally on Fifth Avenue near Trump tower, Saturday, March 4, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A couple hundred supporters gathered in New York near Trump Tower, chanting “U-S-A.” One held a sign reading: “I am not a Democrat anymore.” Another read: “Yes he is our president.”
Supporters and opponents of president Donald Trump face off in front of the Ohio state house in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, March 4, 2017. The extraordinary clash of several hundred people in one of America’s most closely-divided battleground states featured chanting and name-calling as well as opposing activists leaning in to try to hear each other out on the unconventional president. (AP photo/Julie Carr Smyth)
A rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus turned into a clash of words when Trump protesters shouted “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA” over the supporters’ “U-S-A” chants.
Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, March 4, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump supporters have held rallies in recent weeks to counter demonstrations against him.
An anti-President Donald Trump demonstrators holds a Trump puppet during a counter-rally to the March 4 Trump rally on Fifth Avenue near Trump tower, Saturday, March 4, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Several hundred, eh?
This is so perfect.
The one picture where it looks like an actual crowd is demonstrating, half of them are anti-Trump counter-demonstrators.
If I hear one more person call Trump Supporters “the forgotten people” I’m going to explode. Those people won’t let anyone forget about them and have not let us forget for one second since at least the 80s. They have been outside Planned Parenthood clinics with vile signs and pictures for 40 years at least. The coal miners have had offers of help and in fact get help from the federal government and have since forever.
And they are the people who dressed up and did cos-play demonstrations and Tea Bagged Jesus all over the Obama administration.
Forgotten? Goddamn it I wish they’d let us forget about them for 5 seconds. When did it become de rigeur to propose letting the dumbest among us run things because boo hoo hoo they’ve been forgotten?
I have spent my entire life trying to empathize with others. To do everything I can to make the lives of my fellow beings better and happier in whatever ways I can. To seek the truth with humility, knowing that perfect certainty is impossible for humans, because additional information can always been found that will cause one to adjust one’s judgements.
But with these people…I…just…can’t.
They want to be sympathized with, without having sympathy for others. They want to impose their truth on others, without listening to any information that might undermine their self-certainty.
I have completely lost whatever sympathy I had for them. I have become someone I don’t like, and I don’t know what to do about it.
But yes, I do take comfort in the fact that there are so (relatively) few of them.
Don’t worry, Chuck. By the time Dear Leader tweets about it at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, it will have been millions. Far bigger than the women’s march or any crowd Obama ever got.