By mid-afternoon, organizers had decided the crowd was too big to formally march to the White House Ellipse, although protesters were already on the move. “They are going to tell the crowd they can go to the Ellipse if they want, but they are not doing the normal parade route, there is too many people,” said Chris Geldart, director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Similar scenes unfolded around the country. In Chicago, after a 150,000 demonstrators swamped downtown blocks, officials cancelled the march portion of the event. The Boston transit system added extra trains to accommodate tens of thousands of protesters there. Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, New York and Miami also drew big crowds.
The scene was in stark contrast to the number of Trump supporters who showed up yesterday.
Marchers choked Metro lines. Inbound trains were packed with pink-hatted protesters, and the transit agency reported parking lots full at several stations by early in the day. By 11 a.m., Metro had clocked 275,000 transit rides. (By the same hour on Inauguration Day, 193,000 trips had been taken.)
....“You won’t get in. We can’t move,” said one woman on the phone from an overrun spot near American Indian Museum. She advised other marchers to seek other spots along the planned route. of yesterday's inauguration.
The sea of pink hats I saw had several men among them.
Protests were also held in Sydney, Berlin, London, Paris, Nairobi and Cape Town, and in Central and South America. Even Antartica chimed in.
Michael Moore ripped up his copy of the Washington Post.
Filmmaker Michael Moore held up a copy of today’s Washington Post, with the headline “Trump Takes Power.”
” I don’t think so!” he said. “We are here to vow to end the Trump carnage!” Then he ripped up the newspaper.
...“Twice now, we won the White House, yet they walked through the door!”
