{"id":287422,"date":"2016-12-27T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyc-protesters-condemn-trumps-views-on-nuclear-weapons\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:11:55","slug":"nyc-protesters-condemn-trumps-views-on-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyc-protesters-condemn-trumps-views-on-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC protesters condemn Trump&#039;s views on nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Activists in New York City have staged a protest against President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s recent call for a nuclear arms race with Russia and other countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hitting the streets in Midtown Manhattan on Monday night, dozens of protesters marched to Trump Tower while chanting \u201cNo nukes, no Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The demonstrators said they were enraged by the incoming president\u2019s recent remarks about the escalation of the nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, about a dozen protesters staged a \u201cdie-in\u201d in Union Square against the real estate magnet\u2019s nuclear tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in a tweet last week that the US must \u201cgreatly strengthen and expand&#8221; its stock of atomic weapons until &#8220;the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161227\/6dd8761c-43de-4ee8-af24-7fed389bd4fb.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Dozens of demonstrators protested President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s recent&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/27\/503675\/US-Trump-rally-nucleararsenal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists in New York City have staged a protest against President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s 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 \u201cNo nukes, no Trump.\u201d \u00a0The demonstrators said they were enraged by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}