A year to the day since President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time, New Yorkers marked the anniversary with a different ceremony \u2014 a protest.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Outside Trump Tower on Tuesday, hundreds chanted in opposition of President Donald Trump
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Hundreds more gathered at Bryant Park, bringing their message through the heart of Midtown
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Meanwhile, Trump in Washington, D.C., said the year was a success<\/p>\n
Outside Trump Tower, hundreds chanted in the shadow of the golden letters.<\/p>\n
Hundreds more gathered at Bryant Park, bringing their message through the heart of Midtown.<\/p>\n
The temperature was brutal, but that didn\u2019t keep people at home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he\u2019s doing with ICE, I mean, they murdered a woman in cold blood in Minneapolis. They\u2019re dragging American citizens and carting them off. They\u2019re deporting immigrants [who] haven\u2019t committed crimes,\u201d Manhattan resident John Amatrudo said.<\/p>\n
But Trump in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday said the year was a success.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of accomplishments,\u201d Trump said. \u201cLook at the border. The border is now secure for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others at the protest in the city say this isn\u2019t just about one man, it\u2019s about the system that lets it happen.<\/p>\n
And for some, this was personal, grief turning into resolve.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery morning, I want to cry for what\u2019s going on in this country,\u201d Manhattan resident Mary Jo Amatrudo said. \u201cIt seems like we\u2019re all powerless, and when I come to a group like this, I feel empowered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year to the day since President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-106784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}