in World News Photos taken at an anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., Saturday night show a man holding high above the crowd a sign that read in large black letters on a white background, “RAPE MELANIA”. Melania is the wife of President-Elect Donald Trump. The protest was held in front of the new Trump hotel that opened on Pennsylvania Avenue at the site of the Old Post Office Building.
According to the man who photographed the sign, who goes by the handle “Beck @thereal_beck”, the ‘RAPE MELANIA” sign was held aloft without any reaction by the estimated one-hundred-fifty Hillary Clinton supporters protesting the election of Trump. It was not until a lone Trump supporter waded into the protest and confronted the man that he took down the sign and fled.
DC Trump Protestor “Rape Melania” pic.twitter.com/ZFmjbEiOHl
— Beck (@thereal_beck) November 13, 2016
“DC Trump Protestor “Rape Melania””
— Beck (@thereal_beck) November 13, 2016
DC Protestor “Rape Melania” pic.twitter.com/US2OLTyBDF
— Beck (@thereal_beck) November 13, 2016
“DC Protestor “Rape Melania””
The first two minutes of this Periscope video shows the eyewitness describing what he saw.
LIVE on #Periscope: DC Anti-Trump Protestor Sign-Tape Melania https://t.co/3bZZDIAfrb
— Beck (@thereal_beck) November 13, 2016
Other pro-Hillary protests against Trump this week have seen Trump effigies being lynched and torched while riots have broken out in several cities as part of the protests.