{"id":346244,"date":"2018-02-01T01:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-protesters-target-trump-during-state-of-the-union\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T01:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:15:41","slug":"presstv-us-protesters-target-trump-during-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-protesters-target-trump-during-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US protesters target Trump during State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 200 protesters rallied outside Congress to denounce US President Donald Trump as he arrived for his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While waiting for Trump\u2019s motorcade to arrive that the US Capitol, the protesters held placards that read \u201ceverybody hates you\u201d and chanted \u201clock him up\u201d and \u201chey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators expressed their outrage over Trump\u2019s failure to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico to women\u2019s rights to immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the protest, including Resist DC, said they weren&#8217;t gathering because of one key issue and hoped the event would serve as a forum for those angry with Trump and his policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here for one reason: I want our president to know that I do not approve of him,\u201d said Gayelynn Taxey, an activist who participated in the march. \u201cHe needs to know that we aren\u2019t happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While carrying a sign reading,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/31\/550835\/Donald-trump-state-of-the-union-congress-protest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 protesters rallied outside Congress to denounce US President Donald Trump as he arrived for his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. While waiting for Trump\u2019s motorcade to arrive that the US Capitol, the protesters held placards that read \u201ceverybody hates you\u201d and chanted \u201clock him up\u201d and \u201chey hey, ho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346244","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=346244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}