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Demovictory9

(32,419 posts)
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:27 PM Mar 2018

activists rent room in nyc trump hotel and(temporarily) release rats and dismantle room

vhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5565155/Activists-release-live-rodents-Trump-hotel-room-unauthorized-art-installation.html

'He deserves to be imprisoned with his own breed': Masked protesters release live RATS inside a Trump hotel room and put a mock POTUS in a locked cage filled with McDonald's wrappers
Activist group INDECLINE rented a suite at Trump International Hotel in New York City on Thursday
Seven masked artists removed the room's paintings and furniture and made it look like a grungy prison, adding a cage where a Trump impersonator sat
He was surrounded by rats, McDonald's wrappers, and portraits of 'American Revolutionaries' such as Muhammad Ali painted on U.S. flags

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5565155/Activists-release-live-rodents-Trump-hotel-room-unauthorized-art-installation.html#v-210964987107520645


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activists rent room in nyc trump hotel and(temporarily) release rats and dismantle room (Original Post) Demovictory9 Mar 2018 OP
A swing and a whiff, as protest and as art.... marble falls Mar 2018 #1
I don't like this. murielm99 Mar 2018 #2
room left as they found it. temp art installation Demovictory9 Mar 2018 #3
They didn't destroy anything. Left the room exactly as they found it. ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #6
If you had read the article, you would see nothing was damaged. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2018 #7
Except they brought live rats from outside into the room oberliner Mar 2018 #16
Some can't wait to self righteous. JNelson6563 Mar 2018 #18
Ha ! magicarpet Mar 2018 #4
Caption of one of the photos aka-chmeee Mar 2018 #5
yep. and watch the video..even the rat got a cuddle Demovictory9 Mar 2018 #8
I realize this. murielm99 Mar 2018 #9
Why ? Other than it gives trump money i don't see the problem JI7 Mar 2018 #11
Why? murielm99 Mar 2018 #13
They paid money to rent out the space. JI7 Mar 2018 #14
So, Do you really beleive the Orange Turd aka-chmeee Mar 2018 #12
Except rats from the street were brought into the room and crawled around the floor oberliner Mar 2018 #17
I object to this JI7 Mar 2018 #10
"The bleeding hearts and artists make their stand, BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #15

murielm99

(30,712 posts)
2. I don't like this.
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:30 PM
Mar 2018

We don't have to be destructive when we protest him.

I see that they put things back, but I still don't like this being done in one of his properties. Not comfortable at all with this!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
7. If you had read the article, you would see nothing was damaged.
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:37 PM
Mar 2018

The installation was completed without any problems or arrests, the group said, and they left the room just as they found it.

INDECLINE told DailyMail.com: 'There were no issues and the hotel staff was extremely helpful and supportive throughout the process, despite having no idea what they were assisting with.'

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
16. Except they brought live rats from outside into the room
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:50 PM
Mar 2018
The source said that because they paid for the room and they left everything as they found it, no laws had been broken. “The big question is the rats,” said one, “They’re not emotional support rats. I’m sure it’s a health code violation, but I’m not sure what kind.”

aka-chmeee

(1,132 posts)
5. Caption of one of the photos
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:35 PM
Mar 2018

The installation was completed without any problems or arrests, the group said, and they left the room just as they found it.

murielm99

(30,712 posts)
13. Why?
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:43 PM
Mar 2018

It is his property. Stage this exhibit/protest somewhere else, somewhere more public. We don't have to be like them.

And I don't have to agree with you that this is funny. I think it is childish.

aka-chmeee

(1,132 posts)
12. So, Do you really beleive the Orange Turd
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:41 PM
Mar 2018

will be good enough to return everything to it's original condition when he leaves?

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
17. Except rats from the street were brought into the room and crawled around the floor
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:53 PM
Mar 2018

So not quite exactly as they found it.

BigmanPigman

(51,565 posts)
15. "The bleeding hearts and artists make their stand,
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:46 PM
Mar 2018

and when they've given their all some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy banging your head against some mad buyer's wall"....The Wall by Pink Floyd.

The moron is the maddest/craziest "bugger" of them all.

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