Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!
President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at demonstrators protesting his election Thursday, saying they are being unfair to him.
Trump spent the day in Washington, meeting with President Barack Obama and Republican leaders as he begins to put his government together and develop a plan for his first 100 days in office.
Trump charged the demonstrations that began Wednesday and continued Thursday were being conducted by “professional protesters” and had been “incited by the media.”
Thousands of protesters took to the streets from coast to coast, chanting “Not my president” and “Donald Trump is not OK,” holding signs reading, “Make America Free Again” and “Tear Down the Fascist.” In Los Angeles, protesters burned Trump in effigy.
"We've got to protest," organizer Elijah Newman, 16, of Brooklyn, told USA Today as he stood with hundreds of other millennials in front of Trump Tower in New York.
"It's not just Donald Trump — it's the system of education," he said. "New York City is like a megaphone to the entire world. It's important that we're protesting here because it will inspire and influence other people to start protesting."
In Chicago, a man was beaten as bystanders yelled anti-Trump slogans following a traffic accident.
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