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WATCH: Protesters Chant 'Shame on You' as President Arrives at Trump Tower

August 15, 2017 8:50am | Updated August 15, 2017 8:50am
President Donald Trump returned to his Fifth Avenue home as thousands of protesters thronged around it.
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MANHATTAN — Thousands of protesters jeered and chanted "shame on you" as President Donald Trump returned to his Fifth Avenue home Monday night.

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.

"Shame on you!" they began to chant.

By the end of the night, only three people were arrested in the mostly peaceful protest, police said Tuesday morning.

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