Activists in New York City have staged a protest against President-elect Donald Trump’s recent call for a nuclear arms race with Russia and other countries.
Hitting the streets in Midtown Manhattan on Monday night, dozens of protesters marched to Trump Tower while chanting “No nukes, no Trump.”
The demonstrators said they were enraged by the incoming president’s recent remarks about the escalation of the nuclear arms race.
Moreover, about a dozen protesters staged a “die-in” in Union Square against the real estate magnet’s nuclear tweets.
Trump said in a tweet last week that the US must “greatly strengthen and expand” its stock of atomic weapons until “the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”
Experts viewed the tweet as a response to comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said hours earlier that his country needed to boost its nuclear deterrents.
