‘Not My President’: Anti-Trump Protests Erupted Across America Last Night

Over a Dozen Cities Saw Huge Protests 

Barely 12 hours after the election was called for Donald Trump, protestors began marching across more than a dozen cities Wednesday to voice their anger at the election of Donald Trump as president. From New York to Los Angeles, protestors showed their anger over the election of a racist, misogynistic, white nationalistic, anti-gay bully.

Thousands of protestors marched in New York City. At Union Square they chanted, “Donald Trump, go away, racist, sexist, anti-gay.” Uptown, in front of Trump Tower, they opted for a more simple and direct chant: “Not my president.” 

“This is whitelash,” 25-year old Ashlee Danielle told Newsday, referring to the election of Trump. “This is hell on earth. I feel disgusted, betrayed. I don’t think anything positive will come out of this.” She observed, “We have a black president who is about to hand the baton to a candidate endorsed by the KKK.”

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“Not my president” was also the chant of choice in Chicago, along with, “F— Trump” outside Trump International Hotel & Tower, “in what seemed like a grand uprising — one in which minority groups that have felt targeted by Trump over the past 18 months hoped to send a direct message to the president-elect,” NBC News reports. 

“I’m here today because I’m speechless at what happened,” Rebecca Gomez, 22, told NBC News. “I’m Mexican, but I was born in the United States. I’m afraid people won’t care about that, though. I’m afraid they will be violent.”

NBC adds:

• More than one hundred people shut down a major highway through downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night NBC Los Angeles reported.

• A crowd that police estimated at several thousand marched Wednesday night through downtown Seattle chanting “not my president” and carrying signs reading “Fight Racism” and “Impeach Drumpy,” NBC station KING reported.

• Dozens of young people chanting “Hey hey! Ho ho! White supremacy’s got to go!” burned a U.S. flag on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C., NBC Washington reported.

• At Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, which has significant populations of Hispanics and African-Americans, students staged a walkoutwhile chanting “Love trumps hate” and “Not our president.”

• In the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, hundreds of protesters chanting “No Trump” and “Not My President” marched down Bond Boulevard on Wednesday night bearing a banner reading, “We must stand together against fascism,” NBC station WPXI reported.

• Protesters shut down Interstate 5 in both directions in Portland, Ore., the Oregon Transportation Department said. One protester spray-painted “Impeach” on the side of Moda Center, home of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, NBC station KGW reported.

• More than 400 people chanting anti-Trump slogans clogged the streets of downtown Austin, Texas, and marched to the state Capitol, NBC station KXANreported.

• Scores of students walked out of classes at historically black Fisk University to march through the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, NBC station WSMVreported. The group sat down at the intersection of Charlotte Pike and 6th Avenue and shouted, “This is what community looks like.”

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