New York Times
By Colin Moynihan
November 4, 2015
Donald
J. Trump has appeared unconcerned with the possibility of angering
Latinos since declaring during the announcement of his presidential
campaign in June that Mexico
was sending rapists to the United States.
On
Wednesday evening, in an event organized by the League of United Latin
American Citizens, about two dozen protesters gathered behind metal
barricades opposite NBC headquarters
at Rockefeller Center in New York to demand that the network rescind an
invitation that Mr. Trump had accepted to host “Saturday Night Live”
this week.
There
were claps and chants of “Dump Trump” and “Fight back.” There were
placards reading “S.N.L. stop the hate.” There were people dressed in
costume, including a man
appearing as a cartoon-style plutocrat, replete with a black top hat
and a papier-mâché mask featuring eyeballs emblazoned with dollar signs.
Among
the protesters was Juan Sanchez, 45, a translator from Midtown
Manhattan, who said that he believed that Mr. Trump, racial views aside,
might be driven by ego.
“It’s
all ‘I do, I do, me, me, me, myself, myself,’ ” Mr. Sanchez said,
shaking his head. “I don’t think America deserves that kind of
leadership.”
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, declined to comment on Wednesday evening about the protest.
Xiomara
Santos, 20, said she had come to New York to join the demonstration
from Washington, where she is an intern with the League of United Latin
American Citizens.
Mr. Trump seemed most interested in spreading negativity, she said, and
it would therefore be a bad idea for NBC to provide him with yet
another platform.
Asked
who she supported for president, Ms. Santos said quickly that she was a
fan of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, adding, “He seems more
truthful than all the other
candidates.
Does that mean that Mr. Trump was being less than truthful when he made his inflammatory statements?
If Mr. Trump believed what he said, “he is a racist,” Ms. Santos said. “If it’s a publicity stunt, he’s just destructive.”
Nearby,
Nicola DeMarco 57, from Riverdale, in the Bronx, held aloft an
illustration he had drawn of Mr. Trump with his lips pursed as if
whistling and featuring his trademark
haircut.
“I
don’t want to see people rounded up and deported,” Mr. DeMarco said,
referring to a proposal of Mr. Trump. “What he’s proposing is right out
of the Nazi playbook; these
are Mussolini tactics, to rile up people.”
Around
6:30 p.m. several protesters walked slowly across West 49th Street
holding a cardboard box that they said contained a flash drive bearing
522,080 signatures to
a petition demanding that NBC revoke Mr. Trump’s invitation.
The
chants stopped briefly as Juan Escalante, a member of an immigration
reform group called America’s Voice, was permitted to enter the
Rockefeller Center lobby to deliver
the cardboard box to “someone named Adam.”
Then, as he emerged from the lobby, the chants resumed.
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