Thousands of people will protest President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm beach this Saturday. Alex Newell Taylor is the West Palm Beach area captain for Women’s March Florida and is helping to organize the march.
Despite some media reports, Newell Taylor confirms that this march has not been canceled. One of the organizers has just dropped out.
“This is Donald Trump’s first visit to Palm Beach County, since he took office. Everybody here, who does not support his policies and his values and what he’s putting out there, we want to make it really clear that we stand in opposition to what he’s doing and that Palm Beach County doesn’t stand with it.”
Well, let’s talk about how many people you might expect. I mean, thousands of people are signing up on the Facebook event page. What do you expect the numbers to be?
“You know, it’s hard to tell, because of course not everybody is on Facebook. At this point, last time I checked a couple hours ago, we were at about 1,600 for sure, going, on the Facebook event and 5,000 interested.
“Generally, in the past, the rule of thumb has been to look at your RSVPs and cut it in half. We are learning with this new movement, because people are so fired up and passionate about their resistance to what’s going on in the Trump administration, that it’s kind of flipped to where now we’re expecting sometimes double of what we think we’re going to get because sometimes it just spreads like wildfire, at the last minute.”
President Trump’s compound, there in Palm Beach, is called Mar-a-Lago and that’s where there will be an International Red Cross ball that evening. Are you protesting The Red Cross, as well?
“No, we’re not. Our fight and our opposition is focused on Donald Trump and the policies that his administration is pursuing at this moment. We chose to have this event, on this night, because we knew he would be in town. We knew there would be visibility from Mar-a-Lago, of us, where we’re going to be protesting.
“I personally have no beef with The Red Cross. I know that these events are planned a long time in advance. Nobody’s looking to start a fight with The Red Cross or in any way disrupt the event. We are just there to send a message to Donald Trump.”
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The libtard march. Loser communists/socialists are going to protest making America great. Don’t forget to take your teddy bears you snow flakes.
They will be protesting fascism in the making by the most traitorous President in history.
Still living home with your mommy and daddy Don?
Protest Gorsuch. Urge every single Senator even the Republicans to vote against him. All the GOP will, but let them hear your NO GORSUCH demand anyway. For one year conservative Merrick Garland got no hearing. Now the GOP need to know the Democrats are fighters, too. THE SCOTUS is where there is so much impact on our lives, probably more so than any other area, and for a long, long time. JUST SAY NO TO GORSUCH. Don’t let the hypocritical, selfish, bullies in the Republican party get away with delay and then just turn the tables and say, “oh let’s be reasonable….” This supreme court opening was for Obama to fill. BE FIGHTING MAD AND LET YOUR LAWMAKERS KNOW.
Also — it just takes a minute to send an email to Bill Nelson. Let him know you want him and his Democratic colleagues in the Senate to STAND UP AND FIGHT — say this in your protests against Trump Saturday — stand up and fight, just say NO — no Gorsuch, whose reputation for helping the rich and mighty and dumping on the weak and poor is so well documented. NO TO GORSUCH