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Hundreds 'Flip Off' Trump Tower, Briefly Shutting Fifth Avenue on Presidents' Day

Organizers cast the nonviolent stunt as a protest of Trump's immigration policies.

Overview

  • Rise and Resist led the one-hour action outside the Midtown skyscraper, staging chants, drums and a coordinated middle-finger salute.
  • Demonstrators counted down and then raised foam and real middle fingers while shouting profanities and anti-ICE slogans.
  • Traffic on Fifth Avenue was briefly blocked as hundreds gathered; an organizer put turnout as high as 1,000, an estimate not independently verified.
  • The group said it will ask Guinness World Records to recognize the display; the event dispersed without arrests or incidents.
  • Some signs referenced accusations linked in public discourse to Jeffrey Epstein; Trump has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged in those matters.