Donald Trump went home to his gilded tower in Manhattan on Monday, and while his staff may have given him a big welcome inside, the scene outside was not so friendly. Thousands of protesters turned out to greet him, but Trump avoided them, the New York Times’ Matthew Haag and Sarah Maslin Nir report:
His presidential motorcade avoided Fifth Avenue and pulled up to Trump Tower after driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
Going down a one-way street to slip in the back rather than making a grand entrance under the big Trump sign—that had to make him seethe. But if he’d gone in the front, Trump might have had to see people like this:
“His hateful rhetoric caused what happened in Charlottesville,” said Ronald Gerring, who was visiting New York from Chicago along with his wife, Lachandra Geri. Though it was a birthday trip for Gerring, the two decided to protest. [...]
“This is personal for me,” said Bihn Thai, a New York City teacher whose family fled Vietnam after the war. He said his family’s experience as refugees had made him critical of Trump’s strict stance on immigration and accepting refugees.
Not that he would have listened to them, but Trump couldn’t even be driven past them in the end. He knows, though. He knows that far from being the prince of New York, he’s the despised ogre in the tower. And that it’s not just New York that hates him.