Donald Trump is not happy about the anti-Trump protests that are underway nationwide, nearly two days after he was elected president.
“Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!,” Trump’s tweet read.
Trump’s assertion that the demonstrators were professionals “incited by the media” was seen as a dismissal of concerns many of the protesters have.
Thousands of people flooded streets and freeways in major cities — from New York, to Chicago, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Detroit — to express their distaste about Trump’s election.
The protests have continued since Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a historic upset early Wednesday morning.
Many of those demonstrators say they are afraid of what the Trump administration will do after he ran a campaign that leaned heavily on what they call racist, xenophobic, and sexist bombast. The protesters are also troubled by white-supremacist groups emboldened by Trump’s victory.
Trump was cosigned by both the Ku Klux Klan and former KKK leader David Duke. Though the real-estate businessman has disavowed those endorsements, both the KKK and Duke have doubled down on their adulation. Duke, during a Louisiana US Senate debate earlier this month, declared that he would be Trump’s “most loyal advocate,” if he wins the seat.
And after Trump won the White House, Duke said “our people played a huge role” in electing him.
The president-elect was at the White House on Thursday for his first meeting with President Barack Obama. The highly anticipated pow-wow comes after what has been a bitter election — one in which both Trump and Obama threw rhetorical jabs at each other on the campaign trail.
Trump, in an another tweet, had only positive things to say about the meeting, and said that he and Obama had “great chemistry.”
As reported by Business Insider