Impeach balloon set to sail
By RAY CHAVEZ
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2019 at 7:01 pm
UPDATED: June 30, 2019 at 4:39 am
... “We came up with this impeach balloon idea,” said Roger Hu, of Oakland, as he and fellow trumpchickensf members inflated the balloon for the first time after its arrival from China. The 20-ft. tall by 21-ft. wide peach-shaped balloon will be sailing on a boat in the San Francisco Bay on the Fourth of July, around the same time that President Donald Trump will deliver his speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
“There’s a lot of exhaustion with Donald Trump in general,” Hu says, “we found a new way to celebrate July 4th.”
The anti-Trump group have appeared on several previous occasions with a 33-ft tall inflatable Trump chicken balloon, since president Trump refused to release his tax records. “He’s too chicken for that,” Hu said in an interview before Presidents’ Day.
“We worked on the tax march in 2017, but new times demand new inflatables,” says Danelle Morton, book author and writer. “We’re hoping to get people to pay attention to the impeach message, which hasn’t seemed to gain much interest ...
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