MANHATTAN — Thousands of protesters jeered and chanted "shame on you" as President Donald Trump returned to his Fifth Avenue home Monday night.
This seems to have been the moment Trump arrived, around 9:13 p.m. pic.twitter.com/MGmme6Lcc4
— Allegra Hobbs (@AllegraEHobbs) August 15, 2017
The president had spent the day in Washington, D.C., as controversy grew around his tepid comments on a deadly white supremacist rally on Saturday in which he blamed the violence "on many sides."
On Monday afternoon, Trump delivered remarks specifically singling out neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, but many were still angry at his tardy condemnation.
Protests erupted in Manhattan Monday night, which also marked his first return to his home in Trump Tower, at 725 Fifth Ave., since he assumed the presidency.
When the lights in his residence flickered on, a wave of jeers erupted among the thousands who had gathered around his eponymous tower.
Home again. @realDonaldTrump is back at Trump Tower for the first time since his inauguration as president. pic.twitter.com/nToUkwhuw0
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) August 15, 2017
"Shame on you!" they began to chant.
Feels good to be home after seven months, but the White House is very special, there is no place like it... and the U.S. is really my home!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2017
By the end of the night, only three people were arrested in the mostly peaceful protest, police said Tuesday morning.
