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Protesters crowd New York streets on President Trump’s first visit home

Police and Secret Service walk along the front of a designated protest zone in front of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on May 4, 2017. More than a thousand protesters showed up to greet President Trump on his first visit to his home city of New York since becoming president. Photo Credit: James K. Galloway
Police and Secret Service walk along the front of a designated protest zone in front of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on May 4, 2017. More than a thousand protesters showed up to greet President Trump on his first visit to his home city of New York since becoming president. Photo Credit: James K. Galloway

NEW YORK – Donald Trump returned to his home city on Thursday, for the first time since becoming President of the United States.

Demonstrators appeared at the Intrepid military museum, a decommissioned warship docked in lower Manhattan, where President Trump met right-wing Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

As people outside chanted “New York hates you,” Trump and Turnbull participated in a ceremony to commemorate the Battle of the Coral Sea, a joint effort in the Pacific between the US and Australia during World War II.

Approximately one thousand protesters gathered to protest Trump administration stances and policy.

Audio from the protest

Afterward, Turnbull and Trump were scheduled to play an evening round of golf on a Trump course in Westchester.

Fewer than one in five New Yorkers voted for Trump in the 2016 election.