I suspect that the press did not record where he was going because his organizers had no idea where to put him. At first they were going to have him speak in one of the large ballrooms at the Anaheim center. Then they ultimately settled for a side room. The first room can hold up to 5,000 people, according to one report.
The number of people who ultimately attended? Between 750 and 800.
Now that is a pretty stingy little number of people, especially for a former president. Obama was supposed to be this big time Messiah for the county, the guy who would bring the hope and change to make everything all well and good in the country.
Here's the full YouTube Live video that I took at the convention center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxaQDfCw_TI
Not only did that not happen, but many of the Democrats who had supported him walked away, and they voted for Donald Trump. Many of those voters are now fully in the Trump camp and they support Republican candidates cross the board. This development is truly exciting.
So, when we Trump supporters heard about Obama coming to Anaheim, we knew that we wanted to counter-protest.
Crystal Jade helped set up our network of activists, and we showed up Saturday morning right outside the convention center.
Check out our first set of protests:
We had some new people join us, too, men and women who haven't had the chance to protest with us in the past.
Some of the passers-by yelled at us, but some of them were quite supportive, including residents living across or down the street from us.
One of Omar Navarro's campaign staffers joined us, too:
One source told us that President Obama was going to drive down Transit Plaza to enter the convention.
I didn't wait, but went to join with another one of our fellow Trump supporters, who was closer to the entrance:
Robert Lauten speaking with a local reporter |
Robert Lauten joined with another Trump supporter to blare out that all of the Russia-Collusion nonsense was going nowhere fast. I can't wait for President Trump to declassify all the FISA warrants and other redacted reports exposing the abusive, corrupt, treacherous Deep State.
For me, seeing the line of Democrats and pro-Obama people was what this was all about.
I love questioning and confronting these liberals on their fanatical appreciation of Barack Obama. Di they forget so quickly that Obama and the Clintons robbed Bernie Sanders?
Check out the first set of people whom I confronted:
One of the people in line said that Trump was a traitor. Why? He couldn't tell me.
I saw so many people promoting Gil Cisneros for Congress. This guy has serious #MeToo issues, and former campaign volunteers have called him out on his sexual harassment. I also saw David Min, the rude Asian-American Democrat who ran against Mimi Walters in the primary, and he had also shown up to a few of our protests outside of Mimi Walters' office earlier this year.
He didn't have much to say when I mocked him for losing big time in the primary. "That's what you get for not talking to your prospective constituents."
Claudio, the staffer who works in Congressman Lou Correa's office in Santa Ana, was also there. He was really scared when he saw us Trump supporters. He walked away as fast as he could, then buried himself in the line into the Convention Center room.
Then some of the Brown Supremacists showed up! They went to counter-protest our counter-protest! FUNNY!
They made little difference.
It's so strange how the left wants to smear Trump supporters as a bunch of racist white supremacists.
Our group of Trump supporters showed far more diversity than the Democrats lining up to see Obama. Many of us were more than happy to speak with the press and with other people lining up or waiting to get inside.
One lady, born in France but living in the United States, argued with me about health care, and she said that we should have a health care system more like France. There are two aspects to the French system which should be adopted: the medical professionals often bring the emergency room to the patient, in the hopes that they can resolve the issue fully at the person's home. That's a wise move which saves resources in a hospital for those who really need it. The French health care system is also tort averse, in that people cannot just run to court and sue every time something goes wrong health wise.
The reason why Kaiser Permanente provides quality health care at a price which many people can afford is that they resolve health issues and lawsuits through alternate dispute mediation. They have also stayed out of the Obamacare insurance markets, which jacked up the prices while taking away choices.
The lady from France was more respectful than most of the people in line. I saw some of my more friendly political opponents there, including Tom the Vietnamese American, who was born and raised in Whittier, CA.
We talked with them for a while, too:
Final Reflection
I sent this message to a friend of mine after our Trump counter-protest to the Obama rally:
It went so well! I have never had so much fun in in so many months. All
of these silly liberals were lined up to go into this very little room. The
Anaheim Convention Center had originally set aside Ballroom E for Obama, but
the numbers that came were much smaller than anticipated! Ultimately about 700
people attended his little rally in a little room.
Major fail! I don't think people realize, but a lot of people don't
like Barack Obama and the Democratic Party anymore. They see him as way too corporate. I had so much fun on the outside triggering and trolling some of the
Liberals, many of whom could not explain why they hate Donald Trump. There were
other people however, whom I had very civil discussions with. I enjoyed talking
with them. All the emails, photos, and videos are going to be uploaded in the
next 24 hours. I am so tired right now. I have to rest, but thanks for reaching
out.
We assembled a pretty decent team of Trump supporters despite getting information about the details of this event at the last minute.
We had a lot of fun.
I am glad that members of We the People Rising along with LA County and OC for Trump showed up, too:
How staggering it was that so few showed up to see this has-been. His legacy has all but disappeared after less than two years. The hope and change which Obama promised, Trump has delivered for the American people. The voters in this country rejected the regressive leftists bigotry of the Democratic Party and their increasingly socialist leanings. If the Democrats don't learn from history and pay attention to the fact that their numbers are dwindling across the country, they will probably face in deeper losses going into November.
I sincerely doubt that Democrats are going to pick up the requisite number of seats needed to gain the House Majority next year. The fact is that they are not properly targeting the right seats. The radical progressive base is turning off mainstream voters, many of whom now have new work and better pay. The more wealthy the average American becomes, the less likely they are to support tax hikes, regulatory burdens, and rampant assaults against their individual liberties.
Good job Arthur keep up the great work.
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