Trolling Trump: How viral visual taunts have changed protest in nation’s capital

The following article by Steve Hendrix and Perry Stein was posted on the Washington Post website October 25, 2017:

Anti-Trump protesters have gotten creative in expressing their disagreement with the president’s actions and policies. (Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)

An hour before dawn on Oct. 6, Robby Diesu directed a trailer onto the Mall near the Washington Monument. At a spot with a good sightline to the White House, he and a small crew set up a 160-square-foot video screen, hooked it to a laptop and hit play.

What ran on the screen for the next 12 hours was a relentless Jumbotron rewind of Donald Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” tape,” the hot-mic remarks that had roiled the 2016 campaign one year earlier — complete with audio and subtitles. Continue reading “Trolling Trump: How viral visual taunts have changed protest in nation’s capital”