Protests against Donald Trump

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Protests against Donald Trump in November 2016

Protests against Donald Trump ( anti-Trump protests , resistance against Trump , English Trump Resistance ) deals with public extra-parliamentary and federal activities against the policies of the US President Donald Trump . These began in the USA during his 2015/16 election campaign , intensified after his election victory on November 8, 2016 and, since his inauguration on January 20, 2017, have continued in an increasingly institutionalized form during his presidency .

United States

Protests in the election campaign

Since the beginning of his candidacy (June 16, 2015), Trump has made numerous false claims, for example about the crime of non-naturalized immigrants , and deliberately disparaged certain groups (including African-Americans, the disabled, immigrants, homosexuals, Mexicans, Muslims , media, opposing celebrities) . Among other things, he announced the repeal of the Obamacare Health Insurance Act , the construction of a wall on the southern border of the United States, a general entry ban for Muslims, the reintroduction of torture , the murder of families of Islamist terrorists and the possible use of nuclear weapons . With this he caused a shift to the right in his Republican party before his election and afterwards an enormous increase in hate crime in the USA.

The protests reacted to this. Above all, pupils, students and supporters of opposing candidates disrupted Trump's campaign speeches with heckling and organized counter-rallies. There were acts of violence by supporters of Trump. Opponents blamed Trump's own rhetoric, demagoguery and calls for violence.

A former US Marines soldier revealed in May 2016 that Trump had failed to make donations for US veterans, as he claims, so that he had to pay a million US dollars under public pressure. Such initiatives that were not bound by party politics resulted in more closely networked initiatives at universities, for example against the measures announced by Trump to establish a Muslim card index, deportations of illegal immigrants and the withdrawal of funds for the organization Planned Parenthood .

Not my president

Tens of thousands of demonstrators, mostly school and university students, responded to Trump's election victory on November 8, 2016 and his self-portrayal as President of all Americans in the victory speech with the slogan Not my President! ("Not my President!"). Above all, they opposed racism and entry bans for immigrants. The same slogan was used by the Tea Party movement against Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama .

Many opponents of Trump deny or doubt the legitimacy of his election: he received the most electors in Electoral College , but only the votes of 26.3 percent of all registered voters in the lowest turnout in 20 years and almost 2.9 million fewer votes than his Opposing candidate Hillary Clinton . This received the historically largest share of the votes of a loser in the US presidential election. This sparked a new debate about the US electoral system. In addition, Trump received only very narrow majorities in the three states of Pennsylvania , Michigan and Wisconsin , so that the opposing candidate Jill Stein ( Green Party ) initially tried to enforce a recount in court. Also showed a month-long investigation of US intelligence on 6 January 2017 that Russia with probably of President Vladimir Putin arranged hacking the US elections had affected. Trump himself called for Russian hacker attacks in the election campaign and relied on their data. That is why civil rights activist John Lewis became the first congressman to declare on January 14, 2017 that Trump was not a legitimate president; he would stay away from his inauguration .

Impeachment debate

After Trump's election victory, commentators from all political camps discussed the reasons and chances for impeachment proceedings . Proponents include filmmaker Michael Moore , columnist David Brooks, and historian Allan Lichtman. Former judge Bill Blum believes this debate is unrealistic and premature because of the majority in both chambers of congress and the Republicans' fixation on power. However, the legal justification for this is already possible: Trump is in open conflicts of interest because of around 75 ongoing legal proceedings, over 500 companies abroad, others in Germany and around one billion debts and is therefore in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and Article I / 9 of the United States Constitution ( Emoluments Clause ) ineligible as President. He denied a credible blind trust . A number of his campaign promises were already unconstitutional. This threatens a serious constitutional crisis for which the opposition has to prepare.

Influence on Congressmen

Michael Moore had warned the Democratic Party of Trump's possible election victory since July 2016 and has since then been demanding: The people must recapture the party, remove their party executive, force any democratic MPs who are too willing to compromise to resign, quickly and decisively form a strong extra-parliamentary opposition and from the party executive Calling for an apology to the unsuccessful candidate Bernie Sanders , who had a better chance of winning. The Electoral College is to be abolished, the US president can only be determined by direct election, criminals also have the right to vote and elections are held on a Sunday or public holiday.

At the beginning of 2017, the former labor minister Robert B. Reich proposed twelve resistance methods in order to prepare for Trump's removal from office: 1. oblige the US senators and deputies to uncompromising opposition to Trump's plans with constant phone calls, 2. monthly marches and demonstrations to publicize the opposition demands 3. Require cities and states not to cooperate with federal authorities on mass deportations, 4. Boycott all products and businesses of Trump and his family members, 5. Describe the dangers of Trump's politics in letters to the editor to local media, 6. Daily news about Trump's actions in Spread social media, 7. Donate to the most effective opposition groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Common Cause , the Southern Poverty Law Center , the Economic Policy Institute , Inequality Media and MoveOn.org ; 8. make the resistance visible through optical means (stickers, imprints, etc.), 9. promote progressive politics (including environmental protection, tax progression, higher minimum wages, an end to manipulative constituencies and mass incarceration) at local and regional level, 10. local initiatives for abolition of the Electoral College and oblige district representatives to vote according to the real majority of votes, 11. also speak to Trump supporters and independents about these steps and win them over, 12. arrange family reunions and joint daily contributions to the above steps.

At the initiative of MPs suspected of corruption , the Republican parliamentary group executive in the US House of Representatives decided in a closed session on January 2, 2017 without a vote to dissolve the non-partisan ethics office of Congress , which was founded in 2008 . As a result of an enormous wave of protests from constituencies and a reprimand from Trump, the parliamentary group's executive board withdrew the decision the following day.

Since election day, many new initiatives want to put pressure on the US Congress to oppose Trump's policies. The Nation magazine rated some of them as particularly promising:

  • Indivisible , a group of ex-Congress staff . They wrote the Indivisible Guide as a general guide to putting congressmen under more effective pressure. It was downloaded about 1.5 million times in the first few days.
  • #KnockEveryDoor , founded by Zack Malitz, wants to activate politically independent volunteers for visits to neighbors and community reviews of MPs.
  • Movement 2017 , founded by Billy Wimsatt, is a website that reviews, evaluates, financially supports and raises donations for little-known local initiatives that have no donors.
  • Movement Match , founded by Talia Cooper, Pippi Kessler, Sonia Alexander and David Mahfouda, consists of 70 volunteers. They put politically inexperienced people who want to get involved with a specially designed quiz to suitable protest groups in their area, led by experienced activists. Over 10,000 people have taken the quiz so far. The regional group file is to be expanded nationwide.
  • Operation 45 is an initiative founded by Ryan Shapiro and Jeffrey Light that prepares inquiries to government agencies under the Freedom of Information Act and professionally supports inquiries from other groups. Due to Trump's election victory, the initiators decided to continue their volunteer work full-time.
  • Run for Something (co-founder: Amanda Litman) recruits and supports progressive "Millennials" (born in 2000 and later) as candidates for local political offices. 3,000 people have already offered themselves.
  • Swing Left (co-founder: Miriam Stone) tries to attract new young candidates for congressional offices in order to “turn around” electoral districts with many swing voters and thus achieve a majority for the Democratic Party in the legislative chambers of the Senate and House of Representatives in the 2018 congressional elections . So far 280,000 people are said to have registered there.

An initial wave of protests was directed against the voting behavior of Democratic senators for Trump's cabinet candidates. Dianne Feinstein then promised on January 31, 2017 that she would definitely vote against Jeff Sessions as attorney general. The parliamentary group leader Chuck Schumer and the representatives of the left wing party Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also received protests because they had offered Trump to cooperate in the termination of the free trade agreements, infrastructure projects and reforms of Obamacare . The many protests took the party leadership by surprise and displaced the initial discussion of whether one should move towards the white middle class of rural Trump voters in the Rust Belt or rather orientate oneself towards the urban, young coalition of various minorities that Obama elected US President in 2008 . They strengthened the willingness of Democratic senators to block Trump's other candidates as much as possible, and the left wing of the party, which is calling for firm opposition to Trump's entire policy. Despite the anti-capitalist attitude of most “millennials”, the group leader Nancy Pelosi reiterated that the Democrats are capitalists .

According to the Indivisible Guide , many local groups were formed that use the tactics of the Tea Party movement against Trump and the Republicans who support him and attend town hall meetings of congressmen with voters in their districts. The protests are directed against, among other things, the abolition of Obamacare , the building of the Wall, Trump's refusal to reveal his tax payments, Russian influence on the elections and the election of Betsy DeVos as Minister of Education. The meetings were recorded and examples of critical questions were shared on Twitter. Many visitors protested against Jason Chaffetz , Diane Black , Mike Sparks and Justin Amash on February 9, 2017 , against Tom Reeds , Tim Scott and Mark Sanford on February 18, 2017 , and against David Brat , Bill Cassidy and Tom Cotton from February 20 , Charles E. Grassley and Dave Reichert . Some MPs made promises that contradicted their earlier statements and promised to keep popular parts of Obamacare . Others avoided the Town Halls, such as Marco Rubio , Patrick J. Toomey , Elise Stefanik , Louie Gohmert . In spite of this, meetings were held in their constituencies, the visitors of which denounced the cowardice of the MPs and ridiculed them through published search advertisements. Some MPs concerned portrayed the anger of the visitors as staged intimidation attempts by paid opponents who had traveled there. However, some of the most violent protests took place in US states with a traditional Republican majority and were attended and organized by politically inactive conservative voters. Activists from Indivisible saw attempts to brush the protests aside as an incentive to escalate them.

Boycott movement

Since Trump's election, opponents like the athlete Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , groups with names like GrabYourWallet (“ Grab your wallet ”) and The Donald J Trump Resistance have been calling for a boycott of its products, companies, donor and support companies. They are responding to Trump's calls for boycotts and Twitter threats against his opponents, to the significant increase in the value of the Trump brand during the election campaign, his refusal to credibly decouple himself from his business, and his conflicts of interest, as he maintains political relations as president with states in which he owns companies, hotels and golf courses, decides on banks on whose credit he depends, and on pipelines in whose operating companies he has shares.

Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump had used the election campaign to advertise their products and thus increased their sales many times over. As a result, calls were made on social media to boycott their products. Seven companies, including Nordstrom , took these products out of their range by February 9, 2017 after falling sales. Trump's outraged reaction caused Nordstrom's share value to fall briefly and then rise again. For GrabYourWallet , this shows the effectiveness of the boycotts.

Disrupt J20

Since November 2016, anti-fascists around Legba Carrefour have formed the DisruptJ20 network to disrupt , obstruct or prevent the celebrations for Trump's inauguration by blocking all important transport hubs in Washington DC. On January 14, 2017, right-wing populist media such as Breitbart published a secretly filmed video of the planning of an attack with stink bombs and the triggering of the fire alarm on the DeploraBall , which was to take place on January 19, 2017 in the national press club. The activists then said they knew Trump supporters were filming their meeting and played something to deceive them. A picnic will be organized in front of the press club and visitors to the ball will be filmed, for example to catch them doing the Hitler salute. They also planned a dance party in front of Vice President Mike Pence's apartment building and protest marches during the induction ceremony on January 20, 2017. After the local police announced blockades of many access roads, Legba Carrefour announced on January 17, 2017 that the blockade plans had been deliberately exaggerated to create panic and deter visitors. Only one bridge will be blocked the next morning. Activists from the Standing Rock Reservation and the Black Lives Matter movement took part in this blockade . The following day anti-fascists demonstrated in Washington DC against the “illegitimate” administration of Trump.

Women's March

On January 21, 2017, around 500,000 people demonstrated against Trump's government at the Women's March on Washington in Washington, DC. 750,000 people demonstrated in Los Angeles , and between four and five million people in the United States. This was by far the largest protest demonstration in the country's history. According to polls among the US population, the mass protests received far more approval than comparable protests against Barack Obama. High proportions of the US citizens surveyed declared themselves ready in advance to be more politically active against Trump. His well-known sexist statements played a major role.

The main slogan was “women's rights are human rights ”. The main theme was sexual and reproductive health and rights threatening Trump's withdrawal of funds for Planned Parenthood and the appointment of conservative constitutional judges. The platform's goals included liability for police brutality, reducing gender-specific and racial inequalities in the criminal justice system, freedom from sexual violence, recognition of housework and care as work, the right to strike for a minimum wage commensurate with living, solidarity with and legal protection for sex workers and equal wages for women of colored minorities. This integrated demands from other initiatives whose protests are not limited to Trump's politics.

The women's marches in the USA were organized on a decentralized basis by many local small groups, many of which had only emerged since Trump's election victory and were politically active for the first time. They meet weekly for a "resistance day" or on specific topics such as environmental protection, immigration, health insurance. The main organizers are calling on a website for "10 actions in 100 days", initially to write to or phone US senators to influence the formation of Trump's cabinet negotiated in the Senate. With further actions the high willingness to get involved should be transformed into a resistance movement.

At the annual “March for Life” on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC, several thousand anti- abortion opponents demonstrated against the goals of the women's march. Vice President Mike Pence, keynote speaker, announced the suspension and ban on all government grants to abortion providers and the nomination of a new constitutional judge. This is supposed to overturn previous judgments that allow women to have an abortion under certain circumstances.

One year after Trump took office, several hundred thousand people demonstrated again on January 20, 2018 in many US cities such as Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to protest against Trump's policies and misogyny. Scarlett Johansson , Mila Kunis , Viola Davis , Natalie Portman and Eva Longoria also took part in the protest actions to stand up for women's rights.

Against pipeline projects

Trump's decrees of January 24, 2017 on the further construction of the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPl) sparked violent protests from many environmental initiatives and representatives of the Indians of North America in the USA. Their existing organizations announced the resumption and strengthening of their previous resistance.

The operator Energy Transfer Partners sees Trump's election victory as legitimation for the unchecked expansion of its pipelines. That is why the national protest movement is increasingly networking with local resistance groups against projects such as the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Napoleonville (Louisiana).

On February 7, 2017, the responsible authorities allowed the US Army to continue building the DAPl before the environmental impact assessment had been completed. It followed Trump's order of January 24 to accelerate construction in the interests of local oil and gas companies. Since the Sioux there had asked protesters who had traveled across the region in December 2016 to leave the resistance village on the grounds of the Standing Rock Reservation , only a few hundred activists remained there in February 2017. The police arrested 74 of them at the end of January. Tribal representatives want to stop the construction with legal actions: the environmental impact assessment was wrongly canceled, the pipeline route was wrongly laid through their land, the operators had not uncovered their risk analyzes. The representatives of indigenous peoples in the USA, together with the Sioux, planned a protest march on Washington DC for March 10, 2017, and expected a nationwide influx.

Against the entry ban

Protests at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City against Trump's travel ban

On January 27, 2017, Trump issued Presidential Decree 13769, a 90-day entry ban for nationals from seven predominantly Muslim states and an unlimited entry ban for Syrian refugees . Thereupon tens of thousands protested spontaneously at many airports in the USA and numerous organizations, politicians and celebrities worldwide. Lawyers offered free legal assistance to passengers who were often incarcerated by the entry ban. The accommodation portal Airbnb granted them free accommodation until the end of the procedure. Federal attorneys from the states of Washington and Minnesota sued the decree, supported by many high-ranking diplomats, security experts, 280 law professors. Nearly 100 influential tech companies, including Google , Apple , Microsoft , Twitter, and Tesla , were also critical . The Starbucks company plans to hire 10,000 refugees in the next few years. Many commercials for the Super Bowl (February 5, 2017) were critical of Trump's anti-immigrant and refugee policies.

On January 29, 2017, New York City taxi drivers went on strike for an hour at JFK Airport against the entry ban. The company Uber offered inexpensive transport services during the strike, but lost 200,000 customers as a result after a Twitter call ( #DeleteUber ) in the following week. Uber chairman Travis Kalanick left Trump's economic advisory staff on February 2, 2017.

On February 2, 2017, thousands of US citizens from Yemen demonstrated in Brooklyn, New York City , against the entry ban, which directly affects many of their relatives. Mayor Bill de Blasio showed solidarity with their protest. Many participants also closed their bodegas and other shops. Over 1000 shops took part in this strike. In the evening, the Muslims among the participants performed a great public prayer at Brooklyn Borough Hall .

On February 3, 2017, Federal Judge James Robart (Washington) provisionally overturned the decree nationwide as inconsistent with the Constitution. The government announced legal steps up to the Supreme Court . Trump disparaged the federal judge as a "so-called" judge and made him responsible for possible future terrorist attacks by Muslims who had entered the country. This was widely understood as an attack on the independence of the judiciary and thus on the separation of powers and heightened protests against the decree and against Trump's candidates for the Supreme Court in the US Senate.

On February 4, 2017, Trump visited his clubhouse Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Thousands protested against his decree there. On the same day at the historic Stonewall Inn, New York City, thousands of members of the LGBTQ community demonstrated in solidarity with those affected by the entry ban. There were other protests with thousands of participants at City Hall (San Francisco) , in Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Toronto (Canada).

On February 19, 2017, several thousand members of different religions demonstrated under the motto Today, I am a Muslim too (“Today I am a Muslim too ”) in Times Square in Manhattan against Trump's entry ban and the attacks on Muslims that have skyrocketed since his election in the USA. The music entrepreneur Russell Simmons initiated this solidarity event.

On February 21, 2017, activists from the Twitter account Alt Lady Liberty hung a giant banner with the words Refugees welcome on the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan as a protest against Trump's entry ban .

Against deportations and the building of the wall

Protest sign in San Francisco, February 4, 2017

As early as 2015 in Trump's election campaign, some municipalities and the states of California , Connecticut and Rhode Island declared that they would offer sanctuaries to the immigrants living there and not cooperate with the federal authorities in their deportation. Trump then threatened them with the withdrawal of federal grants. This would particularly affect law enforcement agencies. Nonetheless, some cities have passed laws against police interrogations on immigrant status, issued local ID cards to immigrants, and established funds for mutual legal assistance in deportation proceedings. Chicago is training 200 “community navigators” for immigrants and hiring lawyers for an expected 1,000 cases in 2017. It is hoped to legally delay deportations and to increase the costs so that Congress does not approve Trump the necessary funds.

In the greater Chicago area, networks of neighborhood groups, church congregations and schools are forming, who want to jointly oppose the deportations of non-naturalized immigrants. They are sticking to the goal of naturalizing around eight million immigrants and are aware that their deportation would be legal, their blockade actions not.

In Austin, Texas , the group Grassroots Leadership (Bob Libal) has been fighting against exploitation, mass incarceration and deportation of prisoners since 2009. Since Trump's election, the group has been training citizens to prevent the arrest and deportation of immigrants. They form telephone chains to quickly mobilize many protesters for non-violent sit-in strikes on the streets against police patrols. People's Action (George Goehl) also offers nationwide training in non-violent direct action and networking against deportations with over a million volunteers and 600 paid organizers. Together with the Working Families Party group, you have been organizing a "Resistance Tuesday against Trump" in over 100 cities every week since January 24, 2017. They are planning a three-day Rise Up Convention in Washington, DC in April 2017 . Volunteers want to make house calls to Trump voters in the Rust Belt with Democratic MPs and clarify the contradiction between Trump's actions and his campaign promises.

On February 6, 2017, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began arresting and deporting hundreds of undocumented immigrants. She was complying with Trump's January 25 order, which extended an existing law to expel criminals from among the estimated eleven million illegal immigrants living in the United States to include petty offenses and undocumented undocumented persons. This affects up to three million immigrants. The authorities presented the actions as a routine that was limited to six cities and mainly directed against serious criminals. Observers, however, noted an increase in arrests, road checks, house and passport controls and deportations from ten states, including people who had been tolerated for decades without a criminal record. Immigrant initiatives reacted with alarm. Spanish-speaking radio stations informed those affected about their rights every hour. Some of the target persons hid from the access of the ICE agents. Some local politicians demanded clarification from the ICE, which of the target persons were actually criminal and dangerous. Some activists suspect the increased arrests are Trump's retribution on cities that had offered immigrants as havens. Opponents of Trump blocked a freeway near Los Angeles on February 9 . Further protests followed on February 10 in New York City and Los Angeles.

On February 13, 2017, over ten thousand people of Latin American origin demonstrated against Trump, the ICE, and District Sheriff David A in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under the motto A Day Without Latinos, Immigrants and Refugees . Clarke . They demanded his resignation because he wanted to work with the ICE to deport immigrants. Trump welcomed the previous ICE actions and announced that they would be expanded.

On February 16, 2017, thousands of restaurants, shops and businesses closed on the nationwide Day without Immigrants , students stayed at home and immigrants demonstrated against Trump's deportation and wall plans. Immigrants make up the majority of US hospitality workers and employees, particularly in large cities. An estimated 1.3 million of these are not formally resident in the United States. The strike calls arose on social media, but followed on from historical forerunners. Their effect on the immigration policy of the time remained limited. As of February 20, 2017, over 100 people had been laid off because of their participation. As a result, calls were made on social media to reinstate them or to boycott the dismissing companies.

Strikes

On January 30, 2017, the New York writer Francine Prose proposed a non-violent nationwide general strike against Trump according to European tradition. She referred to the immediate successes of the spontaneous airport protests against Trump's entry ban. One cannot avoid inconvenient forms of action that interrupt processes, since the government can all too easily ignore mass demonstrations such as the women's march. It has since been discussed on social media under the hashtag #National Strike . The strike dates were February 17th (the Friday before Washington's birthday ), March 8th ( International Women's Day ), April 4th (anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968) and May 1st (traditional holiday of the labor movement ) 2017 in conversation. The strike will be against Trump's entry bans, his planned border wall, the cancellation of the health reform and for fair wages. One example is the successful women's strike in Iceland in autumn 1975. General strikes were much rarer in the USA than in Europe and were often violently suppressed. The Occupy Wall Street movement called for a general strike for the last time and unsuccessfully in 2011.

The first strike date should involve volunteer social work on the ground and encourage Congressmen to defend the US Constitution. On February 6, some feminists , including Angela Davis , called for a general strike on March 8, 2017. Trump's misogyny triggered the women's march, but women were attacked long before that. All factors that suppress it should be addressed at the same time: male violence, precarization of work, wage inequality, homophobia , transphobia and xenophobic immigration policy. A new international women's movement with an expanded agenda against racism, imperialism , hetero- sexism and neoliberalism could emerge from this. On February 14, 2017, the leaders of the Women's March also called for a “day without a woman” on March 8, 2017 and invited them to use February 17 for preparation. Tens of thousands of participants had announced themselves for this first date.

States

In addition to protective measures for immigrants and family planning and legal suits against the entry ban, some states ruled by the Democrats are testing various resolutions, petitions or laws against Trump's policies. California passed a resolution to abolish the Electoral College . A California state senator demands that Melania see Trump's immigration papers. Others are calling on Trump University to governmental review its possible involvement in illicit financial deals and Russian interference in the 2016 election. Illinois , New Mexico and California will only have the names of presidential candidates printed on ballot papers who have previously revealed their tax payments. Illinois and New York penalize companies that sign contracts to build the border wall with Mexico and terminate their pension funds. Illinois invited Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto to speak about the damaging effects of the border wall on mutual relations. Other laws are designed to protect women from punishment for abortion if the Supreme Court revokes their previous permission. Protective measures for LGBT rights and against police attacks are also expected. This is intended to encourage other states and congressmen to take similar action.

Artist, satirist, actor

Satirists , cabaret artists and comedians like Seth Meyers ( Late Night ) and John Oliver ( Last Week Tonight ) had initially welcomed Trump's candidacy as a joke and material for jokes. However, some television entertainers have been criticized for being too gentle. So did Jimmy Fallon ( Tonight Show ) Trump made during the election campaign with combing his hair acceptable. John Oliver regretted his candidacy in 2016 and dedicated the Make Donald Drumpf Again campaign to Trump's narcissistic and authoritarian tendencies. Alec Baldwin's portrayal of Trump on Saturday Night Live (SNL) angered him so much that he recommended that the show be canceled. However, the amalgamation of politics and entertainment contributed to Trump's election victory. So some like Judd Apatow didn't feel like comedy afterwards . Trevor Noah ( Daily Show ) and Kate McKinnon (SNL) initially only expressed the ire of the losers. Satire seemed to have lost its earlier critical power with voters and only triggered laughing reflexes instead of reflection because the satirists were part of the liberal urban elite, some also ridiculed Trump's voters and therefore no longer represented the interests of the "common people". Jon Stewart , on the other hand, always focused his satirical criticism on politicians in power. Trump has complained several times since he took office about skits by SNL, one that portrays him as manipulated by his advisor Stephen Bannon.

Many celebrities used appearances and award ceremonies for public statements against Trump, for example the actress Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes on January 8, 2017. At the Grammys ceremony on February 13, 2017, Paris Jackson , the daughter of Michael Jackson , showed solidarity with the Protest against the DAPl and invited the audience to take part. On February 24, 2017, the day before the Oscar ceremony, some Hollywood stars demonstrated against Trump's policies at a United Talent Agency event in Beverly Hills , particularly because his entry ban also affected possible award winners. Keynote speaker Jodie Foster said: No matter where you were born, who you voted for and what skin color you are, once civil rights are attacked, the time has come to resist. Original wording:

"We know the first attack on democracy is an assault on free expression and civil liberties and this relentless war on truth. Unfortunately, it's too familiar because history repeats itself. No matter where you're born and no matter who you voted for, red or blue, whether you're white, black or brown and all the colors of the identity rainbow - this is our time to resist. "

A musical protest against Donald Trump is the 1,000 Days, 1,000 Songs project initiated by the author Dave Eggers , which started on October 10, 2016 as 30 Days, 30 Songs , with the aim of producing one song every day for a “Trump- Free America ”. With the inauguration of Trump, the project was expanded for the duration of his term of office. The playlist Our First 100 Days , published by the independent label Secretly Canadian , has a similar goal . Other musical protests against the Republican were provided by rappers YG and Nipsey Hussle in March 2016 with their single FDT , Moby , who released the track Erupt & Matter the day before Trump was inaugurated , or Fiona Apple with her Tiny Hands written for the Women's March .

Media and software

Trump had repeatedly attacked the media during the election campaign, mocked, threatened and aped reporters, considered resigning the offices of the White House Press Corps and abolishing regular press conferences after his election victory, labeled CNN as fake news and refused to ask questions. The press corps then wrote him an open letter on January 17, 2017: They would monitor his government work all the more intensively and report on it. If he sets up a message check, they will find other sources for the necessary information, as in the pre-election campaign, and network. If he yells down individual reporters, he will face a solidary front. The Washington Post announced on January 9, 2017 the formation of a Rapid Response Investigations Team to immediately examine Trump's statements and, if necessary, contradict them. The New York Times invested $ 5 million in coverage of Trump's government despite budget cuts.

Protest actions against Trump are mostly organized through social media . From numerous hashtags on Twitter , #Resist developed into the most popular abbreviation of the protest movement before #Resist Trump and #TheResistance by early February 2017. It was also popularized by a Greenpeace banner outside the White House at Trump's inauguration. The US National Park Service used Twitter to undermine the Trump-ordered closure of its environmental damage websites. When Trump also closed the Twitter account, individual parks and park employees provided the information in question with their own tweets.

The Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign team founded anti-Trump news websites like Shareblue by David Brock and Crooked Media, and the radio show Pod-Save-America by Jon Favreau .

Media Matters is an initiative by journalists against disinformation in the media. They not only want to correct and neutralize fake news of the alt-right , but also resist the normalization of their ideas and change the attitude of many mainstream media, which is classified as too uncritical. In January 2017, they started a petition to the White House Correspondents' Association to react to Trump's targeted downsizing of certain media ( blacklisting ) either with increased inquiries or closed boycotts of his press conferences.

Developers of software to Trump's tweets to use -Industrie invented products against him. For example, the Twitter bot @ Trump2Cash , distributed by the company GitHub , registers company names that Trump mentions and simulates a fund that will sell or buy the company shares concerned. The inventor encourages users who generate profits to donate them to non - profit, non - governmental organizations such as the ACLU, the National Resources Defense Council, and Planned Parenthood . The anonymous Twitter accounts @MatureTrumpTwts and @PresidentialTrump reformulate Trump's tweets into a rational, sensible language in order to counter the decay of civilian manners caused by his rabble. A programmer invented an online push button that automatically donates five dollars to the ACLU with every click. He published the script so that anyone can add this button to their website. Three days later, Planned Parenthood had a similar button.

Since November 8, 2016, software developers around Jesse Pickard ( Elevate Labs ) have been holding regular " hackathons " where they invent and demonstrate new Internet programs for effective resistance against Trump's government. The HelloGov program, presented at the first meeting, makes it easy for influential bloggers and their followers to call political officials in their region. The third meeting was an app of Facebook hacked and the Messenger Second Opinion presented: It assesses spread via Facebook right Fake News and finds surprising sound sources with counter information. The Stand Up platform directs signatories of online petitions that are mostly politically inconsequential and authors of Facebook posts to effective protests in their region, such as coordinated phone calls and visits to parliamentary offices. The BotArmy program transforms your own Twitter account into a bot for 24 hours each, which reacts to right-wing fakenews with masses of fakenews from links. The inventor explained that the amount of right-wing fake news could not only be stopped with common sense, transparency and serious counter-articles, but that the authors had to be beaten with their own weapons. Thousands of false tweets were sent during the test run. However, the deliberate spread of false claims is controversial. Inventions by women that are not only popular with mostly young white male nerds are considered to be forward-looking . Further hackathons are planned for April 2017.

science

In the election campaign, Trump described man-made climate change as a hoax to weaken the US economy, announced the dismantling of environmental protection laws and cuts in funds in the environmental sector. As the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he successfully nominated the EPA opponent Scott Pruitt . A few days after taking office, Trump ordered the EPA, US national parks and other environmental agencies to remove all information about global warming and emissions from their websites and banned their employees from communicating via social media. These steps were widely understood as the beginning of anti- science politics and aroused strong fears among scientists. They first tried to secure the most important EPA data that had been compiled over many years from possible access by the government, and set up protected websites for this purpose. Many anonymous accounts quickly emerged on Twitter, through which government officials anonymously exchanged information. The Union of Concerned Scientists set up secure channels for the anonymous sharing of researchers' documents.

At the world's largest science conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on 18./19. February 2017 in Boston were ignorance, concealment, manipulation, repressing and denial of scientific knowledge on the part of the Trump administration and the possible resistance and protest against it a main topic. Following the conference, thousands demonstrated against Trump's anti-science policies. The protest is considered a preliminary to a planned international scientist march.

Science March

Protest poster for the March for Science 2017 in Washington, DC :
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!
("In times of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!")

On April 22, 2017, Earth Day , climatologists and other scientists organized a March for Science for Washington DC , with around 40,000 participants. Demonstrations were also held in many other cities in the USA on this occasion, and the “march” met with around 600 “satellite marches” worldwide - including 22 in Germany - but was also controversial in some cases. The organizers emphasized that it is not against Trump, but against science hostility in society, against the generation and use of “ alternative facts ” with the establishment of a “ post-factual politics ” and “for the value of science and research as a basis for our open society and democratic society ”.

Climate March

On April 29, the 100th day after Trump took office, thousands of people took to the streets across the United States. About 15,000 people demonstrated on the main march in Washington DC, and there were similar marches in 300 other cities. The reason for the “People's Climate March” was Trump's energy and climate policy : Trump has repealed several important environmental and climate protection provisions and announced major cuts for the US environmental protection agency EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , which is active in climate research . He is also aiming for a renaissance of coal-fired power generation and an expansion of oil and gas production . The United States of America became the only country in the world to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2020 .

Trump's Tax Day

Protests on April 15, 2015 for the publication of Trump's tax return ( San Francisco )

A petition to the White House asking Trump to publish his tax payments reached over 500,000 signatures (a record) between January 20 and 31, 2017, and has to be answered by the White House. On April 15, 2017, the annual nationwide Tax Freedom Day , demonstrations with thousands of participants under the motto Trump's Tax Day took place in a total of about 40 cities in the USA, including Washington, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to uncover his income taxes. He is the first US president to refuse this announcement in the election campaign, and he has not yet kept promises to announce it later. In Berkeley , California , clashes broke out between supporters (" alt-right representatives") and opponents of Trump, and around 20 people were arrested.

Families belong together

Protest against the separation of families of "illegal immigrants"
on June 30, 2018
( Miami Dade College , Miami , Florida )

Under the motto “Families belong together”, about 250,000 people demonstrated against Donald Trump's “zero tolerance” immigration and border policy in more than 750 cities in all 50 US states on June 30, 2018 who u. A. on the border with Mexico had led to the separation of over 2,000 children of “illegally entered” migrant families from their parents and their subsequent internment in a camp by the US Immigration and Customs Police United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protest marches were called and organized by the American Civil Liberties Union ("American Civil Rights Union "), the platform MoveOn.org , the National Domestic Workers Alliance ("National Housework Alliance") and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious , the association US- American religious in the Roman Catholic Church .

Many protesters wore white clothes in the historic solidarity color of social protests in the United States. Leaders were u. A. Democratic politicians and Hollywood stars; At the Central Washington rally, over 35,000 people gathered at the White House and then marched past the Trump International Hotel to the US Department of Justice to piles up their protest signs. Donald Trump did not comment at first: beforehand he had dismissed the protesters as “leftists” by tweet; during the protests, as often on weekends and the like. A. to play golf in his residence Mar-al-Lago in Florida , on whose access road about 200 people also protested.

successes

The media reported the following successes of the protest and resistance activities until February 7, 2017: The abolition or power limitation of the ethics office was stopped. Trump's entry ban was limited, then suspended. The confirmation of the cabinet members he had nominated was significantly delayed, even though the Senate had facilitated the confirmation process. Republicans withheld their bills privatizing Medicare and state lands. The proposed repeal of Obamacare caused enormous anger. The protest movement must remain permanently aware of these examples despite the expected progress of Trumpism .

The entrepreneur Andrew Puzder , whom Trump had nominated for the office of Minister of Labor, withdrew his candidacy on February 15, 2017 without giving any reason. Puzder is known as a staunch opponent of minimum wages and unions, as well as an advocate of strike bans. American union leaders and Democratic politicians hailed his withdrawal as the success of their collective protests. In particular, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) organized dozens of nationwide protests against Puzder as part of its Fight for $ 15 minimum wage campaign , stressing that his nomination contradicted Trump's election promises for workers.

On March 24, 2017, Trump withdrew the vote on the new Trumpcare law, which was supposed to replace Obamacare , because House Speaker Paul Ryan was unable to secure a majority of Republicans in parliament. He did not involve the Democrats in the bill; they had not decided on a joint rejection of the draft. The draft failed because of the internal dispute between the Republicans, so that Trump was unable to implement a key election promise. The citizen protests to obtain Obamacare in constituencies of the Republican MPs contributed significantly to this .

Institutionalization

The New York Times reported in October 2017 that the resistance against Trump has now become institutionalized; Political committees, grassroots movements, watch groups in the legal field and profit-oriented technology companies have now created their own infrastructure outside of parties, which is maintained by major political donors and could shape the future direction of the Democratic Party. According to a study by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation , between the beginning of 2016 and the end of 2017, a fifth of US citizens took part in demonstrations or political rallies, 19 percent of them for the first time (in the last presidential election, 40 percent of the electorate failed involved, 60 percent in the last congressional elections). Of these, 70 percent were critical of Trump. 44 percent were 50 years or older. 10 percent of adults had joined rallies on Trump during this time, 6 percent for and 4 percent against his presidency . The history professor Michael Kazin described the results of this survey as evidence that an organized resistance against Trump had developed, which was comparable to the protest movement against Lyndon B. Johnson in the second half of the 1960s.

Other states

Trump's campaign slogan America First , with which he summarized his goals in his introductory speech, was popularized in the United States by the media mogul and Nazi supporter William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s. At the time, it expressed a claim to white supremacy in domestic and foreign policy. The slogan was previously used by Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Warren Harding without referring to race. The Anti Defamation League unsuccessfully urged Trump to drop the slogan. By February 6, 2017, parodies of the slogan appeared in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, South Tyrol, Morocco, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland. These video clips praise the advantages of their own country with Trump's rhetorical phrases and compete for “second place” after the USA.

On January 21, 2017, hundreds of women's marches took place around the world, like in the USA, the largest with around 100,000 participants in London , others in Berlin , Paris , Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa), Mexico- City , Nairobi (Kenya), New Delhi (India), Sydney (Australia). There were major protests against the entry ban until the end of January 2017, for example in London, Manchester , Cardiff (Wales), Edinburgh (Scotland), Ottawa (Canada) and Tokyo (Japan). On February 4, 2017, tens of thousands demonstrated in London against Trump's entry ban and against Prime Minister Theresa May's invitation to him on a state visit to Great Britain . In Berlin on the same day around 1200 people demonstrated against the entry ban and the planned border wall.

On February 10, 2017, the anniversary of the 1979 revolution , a large state-organized demonstration against Trump and the USA took place in Tehran (Iran). Hundreds of thousands took part, including many soldiers and police officers. Banners thanked Trump for showing the "real face" of the US. His government had previously imposed new sanctions on Iran and threatened to terminate the 2014 agreement with Iran to limit Iran's nuclear program .

On February 12, 2017, tens of thousands demonstrated against Trump's construction of the wall in 20 major cities in Mexico, demanding respect and calling for resistance to his policies. An alliance of universities, civil rights groups and business associations supported this day of protest.

Since Trump's election victory, the number of US emigrants has reached a record high. They took part in protests against Trump abroad and organized solidarity campaigns with those affected by the entry ban and funding for Planned Parenthood . They formed initiatives such as the Alliance for an Inclusive America , Democrats Abroad and American Expats Organizing Against Donald Trump in Japan, Mexico and Berlin. Some of them adopted ideas from the Indivisible Guide .

Since 2017, some German media have published calls for "resistance" against Trump, such as the taz on January 15 and the magazine Der Spiegel on February 4 in the editorial of a controversial cover image.

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Individual evidence

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