‘Today – right now!’ Trump orders Secret Service to remove protest tent outside White House

A video of President Donald Trump showed him ordering the Secret Service to remove a blue tent representing a protest against nuclear warfare.

The president was speaking to reporters in the White House when he was told about an “anti-nuclear tent” in Lafayette Park, used by opponents of nuclear weapons and warfare. Dubbed the White House Peace Vigil, the tent was part of a 44-year protest, which the reporter stated had “morphed into more of anti-America sometimes, anti-Trump at many times.”

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Omg. A reporter just told Trump that there’s a blue tent out front of the White House used by radical leftists and Trump turned to the Secret Service and told them to get rid of it.

“TAKE IT DOWN! Today — right now! … Lafayette Park. Take it down!”

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“All of us have to walk right by it every day. It is an eyesore,” the reporter explained to Trump.

“Oh, I didn’t know that,” the president said, immediately looking around the room and speaking to the Secret Service. “Take it down. Take it down. Today – right now. Nobody told me that.”

“So you’re saying there’s a blue tent?” Trump pressed, turning back to the reporter.

“It’s been there for thirty-plus years. It was originally a peace tent, but it’s kind of-” the reporter continued.

“Morphed into radical left? Okay,” Trump said, finishing the man’s sentence.

The Hill had more on the protest:

However, the peace vigil in Lafayette Park stands out as a permanent stakeout for free speech and is widely known as the longest continuous act of political protest in U.S. history.

Activist William Thomas propped up the free standing structure in June 1981 parallel to the North Lawn, where dignitaries and world leaders arrive for discussion and dissent.

As years flew by, Thomas remained posted out front of the White House and faithfully manned the station through the course of seven presidents and various wars, until his death in 2016.

Philipos Melaku-Bello and a rotating gaggle of activists have taken over manning the tent and have continued its history of protesting against nuclear war and the use of nuclear weapons. Aged signs with sayings like “Live By the Bomb, Die By the Bomb” and “Ban All Nuclear Weapons or Have a Nice Doomsday” still adorn the site.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, has previously pushed for the tent to be removed.

“No group should be above the law, and the continued allowance of this permanent occupation sends the wrong message to law-abiding Americans,” he said in a letter obtained by The Washington Post. “This isn’t about stopping protest. It’s about upholding the rule of law, preserving one of America’s most iconic public spaces, and ending a double standard that’s made a mockery of both.”

Critics of the action believe that the protesters are well within their First Amendment right to continue protesting.

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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