President Donald Trump was heckled in New York City on Saturday one day after news that Michael Flynn would cooperate with the Special Counsel
President Trump was heckled by protesters upon his arrival in New York City on Saturday. The Commander-in-chief was in town for a GOP fundraiser at the ritzy midtown restaurant Cipriani.
“Lock him up,” screamed protesters as Trump rolled into his old stomping grounds. There were also cries of “shame on you” and “traitor.”
Footage of the event was captured by Justin Hendrix, Executive Director of NYC Media Lab.
“People are rightly angry at this President, who has revealed himself as racist, unfit and uninterested in appealing to anyone other than his dwindling base,” Hendrix told TheWrap.
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Trump Motorcade arriving to chants of „Lock Him Up“ in NYC https://t.co/fIFcUCLuIO
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) December 2,2017
The “lock him up” line is no doubt an allusion to the 2016 chant “lock her up” often directed by Trump and his surrogates toward his Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton.
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Trump promised that if he became president, he would imprison Clinton for a number of alleged crimes — something he notably backpedaled on after his election.
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It’s unclear if the NYC protesters were demanding Trump’s incarceration or that of his former National Security Adviser Flynn, who famously led a “lock her up” chant at the Republican National Convention last year.
Flynn has since pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the FBI and may very-well find himself behind bars in the coming months.
13 Stars Who Imagined Violence Against Donald Trump, From Kathy Griffin to Snoop Dogg (Photos)
Since the election, several celebrities have voiced their displeasure — even anger — with the Trump administration. Some have gone so far as to suggest violent measures. From Robert De Niro to Snoop Dogg, here are nine left-leaning noteworthy people who have fanned themes of violence toward Trump and the GOP. Getty Images
Rosie O’Donnell
In July 2017, O’Donnell tweeted out a link to a game called „Push Trump Off A Cliff Again.“ This made many conservatives want to push her off a cliff, not POTUS.
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Mickey Rourke
In a TMZ video from 2015, this boxer-turned-actor directed his rage toward Trump, calling him a „big-mouthed bitch bully,“ saying he would „love 30 seconds in a room with the little bitch.“ Rourke has also expressed a desire to „give [Trump] a Louisville slugger.“
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Larry Wilmore
In late February 2016, the host of Comedy Central’s now-canceled „The Nightly Show“ joked about then-candidate Donald Trump: “I don’t want to give him any more oxygen. That’s not a euphemism, by the way. I mean it literally. Somebody get me the pillow they used to kill [Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia and I’ll do it — I’ll do it!“
George Lopez
During the Republican primaries in March 2016, the Mexican American comedian tweeted a cartoon image of former Mexican president Vincente Fox holding the decapitated head of Donald Trump aloft, with the caption „Make America Great Again.“
Marilyn Manson
Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson had to take his turn in the Trump-bashing festivities. In a teaser video for his song, „Say10,“ released just after the 2016 election, a Trump-like figure wearing a suit and a red tie lies decapitated on a concrete floor, in a pool of his own blood. Getty Images
Madonna
Madonna told a crowd of thousands at the Women’s March on Washington in January that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.“ The singer’s profanity-riddled jab at the Republican administration provoked the anger of many conservatives.
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Robert De Niro
The actor is not afraid to express his disdain for the commander in chief. De Niro confirmed to ABC’s „The View“ in February 2017 that he would like to punch Trump in the face. He clarified earlier comments, saying „It wasn’t like I was gonna go find him and [really] punch him in the face, but he’s gotta hear it.“
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Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg’s music video for „Lavender,“ released in March 2017, (literally) paints POTUS as a clown and orchestrates his death. At the video’s end, the „Gin and Juice“ rapper points a gun at the harlequin Trump figure and shoots. But instead of a bullet, a red flag that reads „Bang!“ fires out of the gun.
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Kathy Griffin
The comedian landed in hot water in May after photos surfaced of her holding a fake bloody, decapitated Trump head. Griffin was promptly dropped from her annual New Year’s Eve gig by CNN. Toilet stool company Squatty Potty also pulled its ads featuring Griffin. Trump himself called the photos „sick“ and tweeted that his youngest son, Barron, was „having a hard time“ with the images. Griffin later apologized.
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NYC Public Theater’s „Julius Caesar“
The nonprofit theater staged a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s „Julius Caesar“ in May-June 2017 that made conservative viewers want to revolt. In the production, a Trumplike figure playing the title role is stabbed to death by a band of angry Senators. The Public Theater subsequently lost sponsorships from Delta Airlines and Bank of America.
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Moby
The musician’s new video, released in June 2017, is simultaneously nostalgic and dystopian. In 1980s cartoon fashion, a giant Transformer-like Trump morphs into a swastika/dollar sign and wreaks havoc on a city before meeting a fiery, explosive demise.
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Johnny Depp
During an appearance at the U.
