Florida supporters of President Donald Trump celebrated his 74th birthday on Sunday with caravans, flotillas and parades in different parts of Florida.
In The Villages, a community in central Florida for people over 55, the demonstration was in golf carts, a vehicle widely used in that Republican stronghold and also alluding to Trump’s fondness for that sport.
In Miami, Trump’s 74th birthday was celebrated with another ‘Trumptilla’, caravans of vehicles of all kinds and a concentration of about a hundred plus people in the place where the statues of Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de León, discoverers of America and Florida, respectively, they were vandalized last week by protesters against racism and police violence.
While very close to there, in the monument known as the Torch of Freedom, followers of the Black Lifes Matter movement gathered in a new protest to call for an end to racism and structural changes in police departments through the country.
In Bayfront Park, in the heart of Miami, another Hispanic, Evelio Medina called today for the defenders of ‘law and order’, as opposed to the protesters of the ‘Black Lifes Matter’ movement protesting against racism and police violence.
Around a hundred people responded to the call and gathered on the shores of Biscayne Bay with ten of the ‘Trumptilla’ ships.
Signs such as’ The lives of (police) officers matter ‘,’ Trump 2020 ‘,’ Let’s keep America great ‘and’ We don’t need community policing ‘could be read on protesters’ banners.
In a message, the president on Sunday highlighted that his birthday coincided with the 245th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s founding.
“Unrelated, going to be my birthday also,” Trump said. “I don’t know if that happened by accident. Did that happen by accident, please? But it’s a great day because of that Army birthday.”
President Trump spent this weekend at his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he has a golf course.
