'We don't want him bringing his hate to Los Angeles,' said Frankie Jester, 27. In downtown Los Angeles, a few dozen demonstrators gathered for an anti-Trump rally organized by social activists. That's contributed to heightened security concerns surrounding the president's visit.
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You talk about racist - Hollywood is racist,' he said. In August, Trump took aim at the state's massive film industry, calling Hollywood 'very dangerous for our country.'
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Trump fans greet the President as he arrives in Los Angeles left energized,' Dhillon said.Ĭalifornia has long been a key fundraising hotbed for politicians of both parties, which have relied on the entertainment industry and wealthy industry heads to finance their political ambitions.īut under Trump, the run-of-the-mill fundraising trip has taken on a complicating dimension because of his harsh criticism of the state's immigration laws and its forest management practices, which he blamed for fatal wildfires. She said the president's stopover delivered a jolt of energy for California Republicans, who live in a state where Democrats dominate state politics. 'By showing up to a fundraiser deep in the belly of the beast, one is saying: "I don't care what the liberal politicians are saying and I want to show my support for him publicly,"' said Dhillon, an ardent Trump supporter who said she lined up four tables of donors for the Silicon Valley event. He said he had not been invited to meet with the president.Ĭalifornia was an incubator for the modern conservative movement that swept the state's former governor, Ronald Reagan, into the White House in 1980.īut demographic changes and an influx of new residents have helped drastically rework the political contours of the country's most populated state, with the former GOP stronghold of Orange County now home to more registered Democrats than Republicans.įor Republicans, who have been resigned to political irrelevance at the state level, a donation to Trump can amount to its own form of protest.Ī Donald Trump supporter carries a flag as he waits for the arrival of President Donald Trump Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, said ahead of Trump's arrival that he hoped the president would work with the city to end homelessness. And we're looking at it, and we'll be doing something about it,' he added. 'The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up. Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump got in some fresh digs about the state's problem with homelessness, saying, 'We can't let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what's happening.' A Trump supporter holds a placard with the President's new unofficial slogan for 2020: 'Keeping America Great!'