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Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, December 7, 2017. Around 100 internet justice activists and supporters gathered outside the Washington Hilton Hotel* to protest FCC Chairman's Ajit Pai's party with telecom lobbyists from Comcast, Verizon and other ISPs who are hellbent on ending Net Neutrality. The vast majority of Americans do not want higher prices, slower service and censorship of political and cultural content that will be the inevitable result of the end of net neutrality. The internet has worked astonishingly well for over twenty years now, empowering millions and millions of ordinary people worldwide. Don't screw it up, Pai. We encourage all to send comments to the FCC. We need to keep the dream alive and kick these scoundrels out of DC ASAP.
*AKA "The Hinckley Hilton"; look it up.
Washington DC, Saturday April 22, 2017. Tens of thousands gathered in the pouring rain at the Washington Monument* for a rally and march to the US Capitol in support of science and reason. The new administration of President Donald J. Trump has proposed deep budget cuts to NIH, NASA, EPA and other government agencies that engage in scientific inquiry for the public good. Even worse, Trump and his supporters are openly hostile to any ideas or set of facts that they perceive as standing in the way of their business or political interests.
*Similar events were staged in over 600 cities and towns worldwide.
Washington DC, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, Saturday June 30, 2018. Tens of thousands gathered in and around Lafayette Park near The White House to protest President Trump's cruel and inhumane policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the US Mexico border and imprisoning them in cages. There were hundreds of similar protest events large and small staged all over the USA today.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
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Washington DC, January 20, 2018. Tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial to rally and march to protest the failed Presidency of Donald J. Trump. Similar events were staged in cities and towns all over the United States Of America as we pass the one year mark of Trump's monumentally incompetent reign. Not at all coincidentally, this is also the first day of a Federal government shutdown resulting from Trump's failure to make any deals with Congressional Democrats on a host of vital issues including but not limited to DACA, border security, the budget, fair tax reform, the ACA, CHIP, community heath center funding and much, much more.
Washington DC, Saturday March 23, 2018. Over ten thousand souls gathered on the National Mall for a rally with speeches in support of Reverend Dr. William Barber's renewed Poor People's Campaign. The group marched a short distance to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol but was refused entrance by Capitol Police. We'll be back.
Washington DC, Saturday June 30, 2018. Tens of thousands gathered in and around Lafayette Park near The White House to protest President Trump's cruel and inhumane policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the US Mexico border and imprisoning them in cages. There were hundreds of similar protest events large and small staged all over the USA today.
Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, The US Capitol grounds, November 30, 2017. Progressive activists and supporters gathered here for a "People's Filibuster" in opposition to a Republican tax plan designed to favor the rich at the expense of the working poor and middle class. If passed, the Trump endorsed legislation would add 1.5 trillion dollars to the national debt, strip the health care from 15 million Americans, rip off billions of dollars from Medicare for seniors and redistribute even more billions in wealth to the greedy, undeserving upper 1%. "Who could love such a plan?" asked one of the faith group speakers at the rally. "Satan!" was the reply from the crowd.
Washington DC, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it.
Washington DC, Saturday January 11, 2020. Around 120 peace and justice activists mobilized by Amnesty International, Code Pink, The Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights And Dissent and other groups rallied in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the 18th Anniversary of the continuing barbaric, sadistic, cynical and completely unnecessary incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our Disappointer In Chief President Barack Obama failed year after year to honor his promises to close this shameful facility, free the remaining inmates who were long ago cleared for release and transfer the rest of the men to incarceration in the United States where, hopefully, they can get more humane treatment and the due process under the law they are entitled to. Our current Republican President Donald J. Trump promised not only to keep the Guantanamo prison complex open but to load it up with "bad dudes", Thankfully, the latter threat turned out to be just another one of his countless broken campaign promises.Still, it is extremely unlikely that anybody currently in Gitmo will be leaving until we Remove or Defeat 45. After the rally with speeches and some rousing live music we marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel where our sad yearly gathering dispersed.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered in front on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets and later marched to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Annapolis, Maryland February 4, 2017. Around 500 Maryland activists and supporters mobilized by Progressive Maryland and other social justice and faith groups gathered at Lawyer's Mall for a rally and march around the Governor's Mansion. The focus of the event was the threat to the rights of Muslims, immigrants, LBGT folks, people of color and everybody else by the Trump Administration and Governor Larry Hogan's lack of action or even a spoken commitment to protect the citizens of his state.
Washington DC, May 1, 2017. Thousands of immigrant and refugee rights activists gathered with supporters at Dupont Circle for a march to Lafayette Park across from The White House. This years event was electrified with a sense of urgency in reaction to President Donald J. Trump's bigoted speeches and policies attacking immigrants and refugees. So far, our courts, street activists and regional governments have acted as a firewall against Trumpism's excesses. How long can we hold the line?
Local boys watch as a protest caravan of local activist to drives past on back country roads in Lancaster County, PA, on May 20, 2017 to protest the plans of a cross lighting of a Maryland based Ku Klux Klan chapter in QuarryVille, PA. A caravan, led by local activist Carter Farmer rode back country to protest the plans of a cross lighting of a Maryland based Ku Klux Klan chapter in QuarryVille, PA. The caravan was closely watched by locals as it drove passed as well as an unidentified individual who trailed it for some time. (©2017, Bastiaan Slabbers - All Rights reserved. License images via NurPhoto.com and BasSlabbers.com)
Washington DC, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, The National Mall, September 16, 2017. Around a thousand supporters of President Donald J. Trump gathered here today for an event they rather unfortunately named "The Mother Of All Rallies". The organizers boasted that they would pitch an event that would dwarf the massive anti-Trump Women's March that was staged the day after Trump's poorly attended Inauguration. There were militia and other anti-government hate groups in attendance but DC is not crazy Charlottesville, Virginia so there were no open carry firearms. I did observe some participants carrying metal rods and wooden walking sticks clearly intended to be used as weapons. Some participants sported Nazi, Neo-Nazi skinhead and other white supremacist tattoos and clothing. Most of the speakers stuck to the same tired old far right wing talking points; undocumented immigrants are "illegal aliens" and should be kicked out of the country, the media is mostly "fake news", Hillary should be "locked up", folks who refuse to "unite" behind Trump are "un-American" etc.
Washington DC, January 18, 2020. Around ten thousand folks gathered here today for the fourth Women's March to protest the disgraceful Presidency of the Forever Impeached Donald John Trump. Thumbs up to the organizers who staged a beautiful, well planned event and to the DC Police who kept a respectful distance.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
War IS a Racket.
Washington DC, the evening of July 27, 2017. Around 250 healthcare justice activists and supporters were mobilized online on just two hours notice to a rally with speeches on the U.S. Capitol grounds to protest the impending Senate vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Inside, Trump's Republicans were desperately plotting and horse trading to conclude a deal to steal healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and give the very richest in our society a huge tax cut. Thumbs up to Move On, the other sponsoring organizations and all of the sensible good folks who showed up when it mattered. We fight on. Next up single-payer Medicare for all.
Postscript. Around 1:30 AM Thursday morning ACA repeal failed by a vote of 49-51. Republicans John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined with all of the Senate Democrats to defeat the measure. Obamacare remains the law of the land.
Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance on the mic.
Washington DC, Saturday June 3, 2017. Around one hundred supporters of President Donald J. Trump gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to celebrate the tragic withdrawal of The United States Of America from the Paris climate treaty. I give this group very high marks for their organizing prowess. They dressed in a manner that showed an individualized but unified front. They had a great portable PA system and even played some pretty good tunes in between speeches. They had some very attractively colored 'store bought' signs but not so many good homemade ones. They chanted and danced around and got their point across to the passing throngs of tourists. They also had great media coverage and that usually doesn't happen by accident. On the other hand, the views expressed in their speechifying and on their signs were imbecilic, vile and repugnant. Looks like Info Wars and Brietbart News are really popular with this crowd.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
In his 2024 election night victory speech, President-elect Donald Trump referred to his campaign manager and soon-to-be chief of staff, Susie Wiles, as “the ice maiden” for her cool, composed style. “She likes to stay in the back,” he said. For the most part, behind the scenes is where you usually found her, that is, until Chris Wipple's Vanity Fair articles were published in December 2025. For someone who felt more at home on the periphery, these pieces were a major coming-out party.
Since 2022, I've been creating a series of portraits of Trump and those in his orbit, titled "Faces of the Republican Party". To date, I've completed ninety. Two weeks before the Vanity Fair pieces went live, I was considering my next subject. I decided on Susie Wiles (I wouldn't call this decision prescient, but my timing turned out to be perfect).
She presented an interesting challenge. Mainly working behind the scenes, Wiles' personality and actions were "background." Unlike many of the President's sycophants, she had no political aspirations beyond her current position. As Trump's trusted confidant, she was right where she wanted to be. There was no need for her to parrot him. She believed in him. As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio stated, "Her job is to actually facilitate his vision and to make his vision come to life." Her deputy chief of staff, James Blair, has added, "She brings no ego."
At the bottom of each portrait, I include a verifiable fact or quote about each person to contextualize the MAGA political atmosphere. Controversy has followed Trump and the movement he started, ranging from nonstop sexism and racism to lies and defiance of the Constitution. How should I scrutinize Wiles' role in all of this? Vanity Fair illuminated her work and, most importantly, her thoughts about the President (He's got an "alcoholic's personality." He "operates [with] a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing."), the Vice President (Vance is a "conspiracy theorist"), and others. Most interestingly, she confirmed that Trump was prosecuting his adversaries from his personal "enemies' list." Nothing we didn't already know. But confirmation from an insider's perspective was seismic. Trump and his band of "disruptors" went on a major spin campaign to counteract the fallout. I had plenty to consider for my text.
Susie Wiles doesn't hesitate to give the President her opinion. As she believes in him, he trusts her. She has often disagreed with Trump, but once she's had her say, that's the end of it, whether she can alter his trajectory or not. She is a true believer.
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Washington DC, Saturday January 11, 2020. Around 120 peace and justice activists mobilized by Amnesty International, Code Pink, The Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights And Dissent and other groups rallied in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the 18th Anniversary of the continuing barbaric, sadistic, cynical and completely unnecessary incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our Disappointer In Chief President Barack Obama failed year after year to honor his promises to close this shameful facility, free the remaining inmates who were long ago cleared for release and transfer the rest of the men to incarceration in the United States where, hopefully, they can get more humane treatment and the due process under the law they are entitled to. Our current Republican President Donald J. Trump promised not only to keep the Guantanamo prison complex open but to load it up with "bad dudes", Thankfully, the latter threat turned out to be just another one of his countless broken campaign promises.Still, it is extremely unlikely that anybody currently in Gitmo will be leaving until we Remove or Defeat 45. After the rally with speeches and some rousing live music we marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel where our sad yearly gathering dispersed.
Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.