Protesters blast Donald Trump, but he says they should be thankful
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in hundreds of US cities for the second Women’s March, marking the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The co-ordinated rallies in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and about 250 other cities were a reprise of the mass protests that marked the beginning of Mr Trump’s presidency.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti estimated the crowd in the city at 600,000, and said it was largest march in the country. Organisers have hailed it as a new era of political activism, saying they are hoping to keep up the momentum from last year’s antiTrump march, which became one of the biggest mass protests in US history.
“While we have this President celebrating his one-year anniversary, let’s give him an ‘F’ for his performance,” Democrat Nancy Pelosi told a Washington crowd, adding: “We don’t agonise, we organise.”
Despite wave of the protests, Mr Trump said the day was a good opportunity for women to celebrate his time in office.
Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months,” he tweeted.
“Lowest female unemployment in 18 years.” Joblessness among women was 3.7 per cent in December, below the overall US unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, according to the Labor Department.
But Katie O’Connor, a 39-year-old lawyer from Knoxville, Tennessee, who travelled to the National Mall, said she wanted Mr Trump out.