A noisy majority: Anti-Trump protesters to line inaugural parade route
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump will get an earful from America’s noisy majority as he moves into his new home Friday. He’ll be jeered on the parade route as he enters the White House with the lowest approval rating of any new president of the modern era.
One protest organizer expects thousands in a plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue, halfway between the Capitol and the White House. He says the goal is to produce a show of force to encourage Trump to back down from his most controversial policies.
“We want to make it very clear there’s going to be permanent, sustained, massive mobilization all throughout the Trump presidency,” says Walter Smolarek, who is organizing buses of protesters from Philadelphia.
“They’ll make the calculation that it won’t be worth it to pursue these types of policies.”