Will ketchup be part of the Trump resistance?
27 January 2025
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I have previously written about how to respond to Trump’s authoritarian rule politically and financially:
How to be effective as a political activist - what you do NOT need to do
We should change what we buy and watch and increase our political activity
I am not a political organizer and don’t condone acts of vandalism but I predict that others may start to use ketchup to deface the numerous properties owned by Trump or with his name. They may also douse Trump officials and those acting on his behalf with ketchup. This may start soon in Chicago, the site of his initial immigration arrests and the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Trump apparently throws ketchup (or food with ketchup on it) when angry:
Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, on Tuesday delivered bombshell testimony to the Jan. 6 committee about the inner workings of Trump’s White House as his election subversion push mounted.
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After then-Attorney General William Barr gave an interview to The Associated Press in December 2020 saying there was no widespread voter fraud, Trump was so enraged that he threw his plate of food at the wall, smearing it with ketchup, Hutchinson said.
“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson testified, noting that aides nearby conveyed the president was “extremely angry” at the Barr interview. She told the committee that she then grabbed a towel and started wiping the ketchup off the wall alongside a presidential valet. Politico
This is just a prediction - I may be wrong, but it seems likely that there will be a strong populist response to Trump’s authoritarian, bigoted, anti-consumer edicts. If not ketchup, we should expect protests at these properties once spring comes around.
What do you think?
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