About three thousand protesters have rallied near President Donald Trump’s Florida estate to voice their outrage at his executive order shutting the nation’s doors to citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries.
The demonstration began with a rally outside Trump Plaza in West Palm Beach on Saturday and proceeded with a march to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s “Winter White House,” where the president and his wife Melania were attending the annual Red Cross fundraiser.
Protesters shouted slogans against Trump and set up a flag-covered casket they said represented “the death of democracy” in the United States.
Several hundred people crossed a bridge in the evening and rallied in front Mar-a-Lago, where they were met with two dozen police officers in riot gear. However, no arrest was made.
“It is time for all of us to stand up and shout and say ‘We are not going to let you take our rights,'” Erica Rudolph, a West Palm Beach resident, was quoted by The Associated…