Donald Trump's latest visit to California was met with an hours-long protest in front of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Burlingame, twenty minutes south of San Francisco, the site of the state Republican Convention.
More than a hundred rowdy protesters blocked the entrance to the hotel, where Trump was scheduled to give a speech to conservative activists. They beat on drums, danced, chanted. They wore full-body costumes, including masks or bandannas, and brandished Donald Trump mascots. They waved signs. They wrapped themselves in Mexican flags.
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The San Francisco protest was quite the scene, but not a new one. Such is the state of the national election today: Old and new media fully coexist and cross boundaries. No cable? No matter. It's likely your feeds are clogged with all this live content anyway. Even a USA Today reporter used her phone to Periscope—in between taking notes for a newspaper story.
I Snapchatted the topless protestors and those that set fire to a Trump piñata. I tweeted prolifically. For extra info, I obsessively checked social media.
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Around half past two, when the police finally told the throng to disperse, they reluctantly did so, but not before one protester, standing on a barricade, yelled triumphantly through a megaphone: "Trump had to come through the back, but we're leaving in the front."
