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Fights break out between Trump supporters and protesters after a US flag is torched while traffic comes to a standstill amid angry scenes as the President arrives for Beverly Hills fundraiser
- Trump arrived to Los Angeles on Air Force One for a fundraising visit on Tuesday
- Protesters greeted the President in Beverly Hills as he enjoyed a $5m dinner
- Furious brawls broke out as anti-Trump demonstrators burned a US flag
- Traffic came to a halt in the city and a Trump baby blimp flew over Palo Alto
By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline, 18 September 2019
Street brawls broke out last night as protesters burned the Stars and Stripes during President Donald Trump’s $15million fundraising visit to Los Angeles.
There were furious skirmishes outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Tuesday when anti-Trump demonstrators were set upon while trying to set the US flag on fire.
Riot police were deployed to deal with the violence and a massive baby blimp of the President flew over Palo Alto as he met with wealthy Republicans to pick up funds for his 2020 re-election bid.
The usual traffic chaos during the LA rush hour was dialed up as joyous Trump supporters and raging self-styled anti-fascists followed Trump’s movements.
President Donald Trump arrives at Los Angeles International Airport to attend a fundraiser on Tuesday
Los Angeles Police officers patrol the ramps over the traffic on the Harbor Freeway for the visit of the President
Officers were forced to separate the two groups and detained some of the more violent members, but did not make any arrests, CBS reported.
Trump supporter, Gregg Donovan, told the broadcaster: ‘I was very disappointed in both sides. I took a neutral stance. I just stood there with my sign the whole time, but the burning of the flag really hurt.’
‘There’s not been a president in living history that is as unpopular in the state of California as Trump,’ said Mike Madrid, a GOP political consultant who is an outspoken Trump critic. ‘But our money spends the same as everyone else’s.’
Trump kicked off his moneymaking with a $3million Bay Area luncheon, to be followed by a $5million Beverly Hills dinner at the home of real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer.
He’ll bring in an additional $7million on Wednesday with a breakfast in Los Angeles and luncheon in San Diego before he visits a section of the border wall.
About 100 protesters lined the road about a mile from Trump’s luncheon site in Portola Valley, with demonstrators inflating giant Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons.
Republican National Committee member Harmeet Dhillon of California said about 400 guests attended the fundraiser at the home of Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy, where the president spoke for about 45 minutes then took questions from the crowd.
Trump tweeted a cheery message as he departed New Mexico on Tuesday to fly to the state: ‘Just departed New Mexico for California, where we are delivering results!’ The tweet included statistics about the state’s unemployment rate and job creation.
An anti-Trump demonstrator can be seen in footage lighting the Stars and Stripes prompting a furious response by nearby Trump supporters
Two men scuffle on the sidewalk in Beverly Hills as the LAPD move in to break them apart
A Trump supporter holds a placard with the President’s new unofficial slogan for 2020: ‘Keeping America Great!’
Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump got in some fresh digs about the state’s problem with homelessness, saying, ‘We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening.’
‘The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up. And we’re looking at it, and we’ll be doing something about it,’ he added.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, said ahead of Trump’s arrival that he hoped the president would work with the city to end homelessness. He said he had not been invited to meet with the president.
California was an incubator for the modern conservative movement that swept the state’s former governor, Ronald Reagan, into the White House in 1980.
But demographic changes and an influx of new residents have helped drastically rework the political contours of the country’s most populated state, with the former GOP stronghold of Orange County now home to more registered Democrats than Republicans.
For Republicans, who have been resigned to political irrelevance at the state level, a donation to Trump can amount to its own form of protest.
Angry protester shout slogans while waiting for the President to arrive in Beverly Hills
A Donald Trump supporter carries a flag as he waits for the arrival of President Donald Trump
‘By showing up to a fundraiser deep in the belly of the beast, one is saying: “I don’t care what the liberal politicians are saying and I want to show my support for him publicly,”‘ said Dhillon, an ardent Trump supporter who said she lined up four tables of donors for the Silicon Valley event.
She said the president’s stopover delivered a jolt of energy for California Republicans, who live in a state where Democrats dominate state politics.
‘It’s been amazing for morale. All the California Republicans … left energized,’ Dhillon said.
California has long been a key fundraising hotbed for politicians of both parties, which have relied on the entertainment industry and wealthy industry heads to finance their political ambitions.
But under Trump, the run-of-the-mill fundraising trip has taken on a complicating dimension because of his harsh criticism of the state’s immigration laws and its forest management practices, which he blamed for fatal wildfires.
Angry protester shout slogans while waiting for the President to arrive in Beverly Hills
+11Angry protester shout slogans while waiting for the President to arrive in Beverly Hills
Protesters hold a banner as they and pro-Trump supporters wait for the arrival of President Donald Trump in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills,
+11Protesters hold a banner as they and pro-Trump supporters wait for the arrival of President Donald Trump in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills,
Earlier this month Trump lashed out at ‘Will and Grace’ TV star Debra Messing after she tweeted that attendees of the Trump’s California fundraisers should be outed publicly.
Trump tweeted back: ‘I have not forgotten that when it was announced that I was going to do The Apprentice, and when it then became a big hit, helping NBC’s failed lineup greatly, (at)DebraMessing came up to me at an Upfront & profusely thanked me, even calling me ‘Sir.’ How times have changed!’
Trump fans greet the President as he arrives in Los Angeles
+11Trump fans greet the President as he arrives in Los Angeles
In August, Trump took aim at the state’s massive film industry, calling Hollywood ‘very dangerous for our country.’
‘Hollywood is really terrible. You talk about racist – Hollywood is racist,’ he said.
That’s contributed to heightened security concerns surrounding the president’s visit.
In downtown Los Angeles, a few dozen demonstrators gathered for an anti-Trump rally organized by social activists.
‘We don’t want him bringing his hate to Los Angeles,’ said Frankie Jester, 27. ‘We know his rhetoric and there’s no place for it here.’
Overall, Trump continues to rake in cash more than a year out from the November 2020 contest, with his campaign and the Republican National Committee pulling in more than $210million since the start of 2019, Federal Election Commission records show.
That’s more than all the current Democrats seeking to replace him raised combined during that period.
The visit this week marks Trump’s fourth to the state during his presidency. He is set to visit a section of the border wall on Wednesday in the San Diego-Tijuana area before returning home to Washington.
Trump plans to visit two of the earlier wall projects funded on his watch.
Last month, the administration completed 14 miles of steel bollards up to 30 feet high, except for a small stretch where homes in Tijuana, Mexico, blocked the construction path, triggering bilateral talks about whether to knock them down.
Money is seen in the back pocket of U.S. President Donald Trump as he boards Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California on Tuesday
Protesters hold a banner as they and pro-Trump supporters wait for the arrival of President Donald Trump in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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29 Comments
4 years ago
Every Democrat voter HATES America. They want America to be a Socialist Country where no one has anything but a handout check and if we object to the government, we are put in prison or murdered.
4 years ago
Reply to
Raymond Cook
Some Democrats even say their hate supposedly shows their patriotism.
what a load of crap!
4 years ago
Reply to
Raymond Cook
Union of the socialists american states (USAS) sounds awesome to them, because that worked out so fine for the Russians.
As real socialism hasn’t being tried yet, they’re angry, self hating and aren’t parting like it’s 1917.
4 years ago
Reply to
az
They can, and will use the same name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
There will be no more “states,” as there will be no longer be an American constitution that bears any resemblance to the document of 1789.
4 years ago
Reply to
Raymond Cook
The Late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
We should be copying this and pasting it everywhere….I’m giving copies to my grandchildren.
4 years ago
Lol, 100 protesters in Los Angeles, California, but President Trump gets tens of Thousands of rally attendees in Rio Ranch NEW MEXICO, LOL!!!! TRUMP BY A LANDSLIDE IN 2020!!!
4 years ago
It may appear that L.A. is a cesspool of deranged liberals and only that. To be sure, the city is overwhelmingly liberal. However, there is still a fair number of conservatives in the city who get no attention. Only the bastards who burn the precious flag who, by the way, should not have been allowed to walk away from that without broken bones.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
I still have friends in LA, they told me they would not consider having any pro-Trump bumper stickers on their cars or signs in front of their homes, because of possible retaliation — incl. violence.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Once there was a silent majority, now we have a silent minority still hanging on to civility and the constitution.
4 years ago
Excluding the LIBERAL 1%, California has the HIGHEST POVERTY RATE.
This was from 2016 and it has gotten worse and CA still leads the way.
They want this for you!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I can hardly wait to get out of this sh!tehole state. If it won’t secede from the USA it should be destroyed.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Do you live in Cali-Mexiforia?
I am only about 45mins. from the the border. I stopped going there for some time now. I hate it. Last time I went I left for home early. I felt down & depressed when I was there. I just could not wait to get back home to Vegas. And Vegas is getting worse. We have illegal invaders here too. I think Cali-Mexiforia has more though. I’m so sick of all this krappola!
DemocRATS???? always destroys everything they touch.
Sad indeed!☹????????
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4 years ago
Reply to
MISS VEGAS
Yes I live in the hellhole state. Where high taxes, high crime and gridlocked freeways are the only things increasing.
I’m sorry to hear about Las Vegas.
4 years ago
Reply to
MISS VEGAS
Vegas is getting worse because of the Union Supported Demoncrat Machine that is gaining an unbreakable grip on local politics.
They will destroy Southern Nevada in the same fashion that they have destroyed California.
4 years ago
Reply to
Public_Citizen
…news flash: they are working on the state capitol as well….I just left Nevada….
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I know.
We are in the process of developing a residential property in Rural Northern Nevada.
The “Money Interests” are never going to let Nevada deteriorate to the point where LA, San Francisco, and other leftist run west coast cities are at.
When the epidemic diseases, caused by the grossly negligent mis-management of municipal resources, begin to manifest in these formerly great cities you will see a sea-change in the levels of support for these failing policies in Nevada and elsewhere.
4 years ago
Reply to
MISS VEGAS
I just left Vegas two months ago.
In 2008 the housing prices in Cali went really stupid…so they looked over at us and saw the cheap housing….they flooded into Vegas buying up everything even though many defaulted on the debt….the national housing finance crisis started in Vegas and spread across the country…thanks to the Clintons and their crooked bankers…..
These horrible people infected our local governments like a plague…they took a staunchly Republican town and turned it into Hillaryville…
Now, the Sheriff in Vegas is practicing “sanctuary rules”…he does catch and release….and the town council is set to vote to make Vegas a sanctuary city?!! You can’t fix stupid. Apparently they haven’t seen the streets of San Francisco and LA…and so many other Dimm run cities and states.
Dimms infect every place they migrate with politics …..when crime jumped in my formerly nice neighborhood I loaded up the cat and dog and went back to my home state of TN…..unfortunately, in the small town where I moved….there are MEs all over the place…..not much comfort in that.
4 years ago
He should initiate air strikes against all major cities in Caliphornication — there’s nothing worth saving in this f’ing hellhole, but he can destroy the power base of the f’ing Dem0rats — the allies of the muslum world.
4 years ago
I know how to properly deal with those disgusting leftist roaches but it’s not for the squeamish.
4 years ago
Reply to
Francis
Same protocol as for dealing with any other form of communicable disease.
The leftist/demoncrat mentality represents a complex of Communicable Mental Disorders and the only way to deal with it is to eliminate the disease vectors, which means absolute quarantine of those already infected in 24-7-365 Locked Wards. The alternative is the “Final Solution”.
4 years ago
The loony-left are a bunch of emotional infants. Someone needs to change their diapers, I think they messed them….again.
4 years ago
There is no possibility of working with people who will squander more than the annual income of the average family of four to provide a bed and shower facilities for a single homeless person.
What has to be done is to stand back and allow these Democrat Controlled Cesspits to deteriorate to the point where a Federal Emergency can be declared on the grounds of Public Health and Safety and the incompetents forcibly removed from power. [Then charged criminally for their willful incompetence]
4 years ago
Reply to
Public_Citizen
…..so far that hasn’t worked for the cities they have already infested and made dangerous and uninhabitable….I’m hoping after President Trump enters his second term that he will do just that…declare these areas “Federal emergencies” and take action….it’s our only chance as a Nation.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
The current problem being that the level of Public Health Threat is not “In Your Face” enough for the clueless sheeple to comprehend the threat.
We’ve had Modern Sanitation Practices in place for so long in the USA that people don’t even have a third hand memory as related by a senior citizen relative of what is possible when the Sanitation Codes break down from lack of enforcement of the Statutory Laws that work to support the Sanitation Codes.
It is so bad in Los Angeles, which refuses to engage in the sort of rat control programs that are standard in most eastern cities that have dealt with rat infestations for more than a century, that an outbreak of Bubonic Plague is predicted and Hanson’s Disease [Leprosy] is on the rise.
My great fear is that Cholera and Amoebic Dysentery will become endemic and the lax procedures currently being observed will not be able to control the outbreaks until the death toll reaches levels not seen since the 19th Century.
4 years ago
Ahhhhh….I see the Dimms’ Antifa is up and running in Cali….”coming to a town near you:…as the old commercial used to say….
4 years ago
Democrat’s Agenda:
If you vote for Democrats you are voting for socialism, higher taxes, no energy independence, guaranteed recession, a nuclear Iran (“Death to The USA”,) open borders, free medical for illegals and welfare, no private insurance, rationed single payer government healthcare (cost 32T over 10 yrs., hospitals will go bankrupt,) free college, monthly stipend for everyone, reparations for blacks, the “Green New Deal” (cost trillions, $13.00+ per gallon of gas,) anti-Israel/Semitism and with time China’s economy/military power over the USA.
Freedom and capitalism are what made America great, let’s not take that away. I would rather have a non-politically correct president with a very successful record over Democrat’s destructive socialistic agenda any time or day. The Democrats must never take away our rights and transform America into a socialist state in 2020 or any time thereafter.
4 years ago
The police had it covered and i hope arrests were made though the article does not state anyone was charged. Will violent assaults be judicially determined to be exercise of free speech???
4 years ago
Only when the long awaited “Big One” will shake California, the naive anti-U.S.-leftists probably will change their minds.
