Flashmob protesters block New York’s 5th Avenue in front of Trump Tower on Presidents Day

Hundreds of New Yorkers marked Presidents Day by gathering extracurricular Trump Tower connected Monday to raise their mediate fingers against Donald Trump.

According to videos and section media reports, demonstrators filled 5th Avenue conscionable aft 1 p.m. Monday and apparently blocked conveyance traffic, while banging drums, playing music, and changing "f*** Trump!"

Photos showed marchers pinch signs branding Trump a "TRAITOR", and a wannabe dictator, arsenic good arsenic a immense banner calling for him to beryllium impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

A spokesperson for nan NYPD told The Independent that "multiple people" had been arrested, but could not opportunity really galore aliases what they had been charged with.

The protestation was organized by Rise and Resist, a nonstop action group, and 50501, nan loose anti-Trump network down last year's No Kings demonstrations, according to an Instagram post by Rise and Resist.

It was 1 of galore mini protests and rallies organized astir nan state for Presidents day, ranging from California's Coachella Valley to New England and upstate New York.

"He’s violating each rule that we judge he should beryllium upholding, and that nan Constitution requires," 1 demonstrator successful Waterville, Maine, told nan Morning Sentinel.

"We don’t declare Trump arsenic our president. He’s not representing america successful immoderate benignant of measurement that anyone would want to beryllium represented," different successful Concord, New Hampshire told InDepthNH.org.

Numerous chants and signs focused connected Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein, his attempts to centralize powerfulness nether nan agency of nan president, and his mass detention and deportation run against immigrants.

On Saturday, an investigation by Reuters recovered much than 4,400 cases successful which nan Trump management was ruled by a judge to person detained immigrants illegally.

Polls show that Trump has go profoundly unpopular crossed a wide scope of U.S. voters, pinch four abstracted polls connected Monday registering nan lowest support ratings of his word truthful far.

Trump was not coming successful Trump Tower connected Monday. Still, nan protestation location reportedly had a "party-like atmosphere", pinch loudspeakers playing euphony and immoderate protesters dancing, according to nan amNewYork newspaper.

"There’s nary logic for ICE to beryllium successful nan streets, for them to beryllium undercover, for them to return citizens unwillingly and put them into camps, essentially, and stealing them from their families," protester Elaine Wong told nan paper.

"It is my work arsenic a citizen... to protect my neighbors, my friends, and each my family. They merit to beryllium present conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic anybody else."

The White House and nan New York City mayor's agency did not respond to requests for comment.