Praise for protesters’ passion
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US President-elect Donald Trump praised demonstrators yesterday for being passionate about their country, just hours after he accused them of being “professional protesters” incited by the media.
“Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!” Trump tweeted yesterday morning.
On Thursday night, he had posted: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!”
Mostly peaceful and orderly protests took place in at least eight cities following the Republican businessman’s defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton. Demonstrators have voiced concern Trump would harm Americans’ civil rights.
His critics worry that his often-inflammatory campaign rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims, women and others — combined with support from the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists — could spark a wave of intolerance against minorities.
East Coast protests took place on Thursday in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, while on the West Coast, demonstrators rallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland in California, and Portland, Oregon.
After Clinton conceded defeat early on Wednesday, Trump took a far more conciliatory tone than he had often displayed during his campaign, promising to be a president for all Americans. His campaign rejected a Klan newspaper endorsement days before the election, saying Trump “denounces hate in any form.”
But civil rights groups and police reported a rise in attacks on minority groups, some by self-styled Trump supporters.
More anti-Trump demonstrations are planned for the weekend.
Thursday’s gatherings were generally smaller in scale and less intense than Wednesday’s, and teenagers and young adults again dominated the racially mixed crowds.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus yesterday acknowledged the tight race with Clinton, but said anti-Trump protesters had to accept the election result.
“Everyone needs to just take a deep breath, take the weekend ... count our blessings, and let’s come back on Monday,” Priebus said.
Police have set up security barricades around two Trump properties that have become focal points of protests — his newly opened Pennsylvania Avenue hotel near the White House and Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he lives.
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