New York, United States: Tourists carrying luggage clashed with Donald Trump supporters excited to see their idol at Madison Square Garden – and the result was that New York pavements went quiet.
The Empire State Building and naked cowboy guitarist street performers – both highlights of downtown Manhattan – provided the backdrop for a Trump rally held just days before the election.
Eric Milland, 65, from suburban Yonkers, said the Republican candidate and former president deserved a warm welcome despite the city being deeply Democratic.
“It’s great to see him in New York,” said the cane-toting retiree who had changed the date on his pseudo-Trump hat from 2020 to 2024 with an orange pen.
“We’re in big trouble, it’s a crisis. Immigration is a crisis, our emergency rooms are full,” he said, repeating Trump’s campaign message.
New York is where Trump made his name as a playboy property developer, adorning skyscrapers with his name and insinuating himself into popular culture through media appearances and stunts long before he ran for office.
On Trump’s chances of winning New York state in the presidential election, Milland said “it would take a miracle — but miracles have happened.”
Shouting and profanity
The crowded streets near the venue were not free of tension on Sunday.
A woman wearing a green North Face puffer jacket yelled profanity at Trump supporters as a film crew captured the scene.
Nearby, a uniformed NYPD police officer haggled with a Trump T-shirt vendor, taking his measurements for a “Trump is my Savior” shirt before buying one.
An anti-Trump protester held a banner that read “Welcome to your Nazi rally,” recalling a gathering held by an American Nazi group in the “Garden” in 1939.
Undeterred, a Trump supporter in a stylized black-and-white American flag hooded sweater posed for a photo smiling with his arm around a fellow’s neck in front of the banner.
“I hope the terrorists kill you,” one man yelled at a vendor selling red Trump hats and T-shirts commemorating the former president’s narrow escape from a sniper’s bullet.
Police, Secret Service agents and plainclothes officers swarmed the area, which is home to a rail, subway and bus terminal as well as the 20,000-capacity “MSG” Arena.
“We hope people will be happy on November 6,” Salvador, 70, a retired university professor from Barcelona, ​​said as he walked through a crowd of Trump supporters. “We wanted to come and see, for me it’s interesting. Some people think we are against America – but this is left-wing politics in Europe,” he said before heading to the airport to return home. Some tourists were caught in the crowd, surveying the scene with their children, figuring out on a map app how to escape. Laura, a 55-year-old Democratic supporter who works in the lifestyle sector, brought her Trump-supporting son to the rally “and then we can talk about it and discuss it later,” she said. “I don’t think all Trump people are bad,” she added. “Actually people are more normal than I thought.”
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