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By David Nakamura January 21 at 7:58 PM
The chanting and cheering could be heard Saturday from the White House lawn.
And, if one craned their neck over a shrub or two, the protest signs, in pink and yellow and white, could be seen barely a block away from the West Wing driveway bobbing along with a slow-moving mass of human bodies, encircling 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as close as they could get. But inside the bubble, as reporters refer to secure perimeter around the president of the United States, the massive womens march on Washington might as well have been in another Zip code.
Neither President Trump nor his staff gave any indication they had seen anything.
Instead, the president and his aides went about their first full day by getting to know their new workplace and the responsibilities that come with it. Staff members began slowly staking claims to offices. Technicians helped activate phones and computers. Press secretary Sean Spicer huddled with staff behind closed doors that less than two days before had belonged to his predecessor, Josh Earnest.
Trumps aides did not appear to venture out for a look at the marchers beyond the gates. The president, meanwhile, busied himself with a mix of tradition a post-inaugural morning prayer service at Washington National Cathedral and with business. Trump traveled by motorcade to Langley, Va., to meet with CIA leaders and deliver remarks to 400 employees, hoping to ease tensions over Trumps dismissal of the agencys intelligence reports on Russian hacking.
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BumRushDaShow
(129,304 posts)It's only a matter of time. Whatever Drumpf "says" will become what the "reality" is and they will dutifully fall in line.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The illegitimate Russian-Republican Regime, Inc. don't give a shit about the people or the voice of the nation.