WASHINGTON – Anti-Trump protesters jeered and screamed at supporters of the president-elect who were attending the “DeploraBall” at the National Press Club on Thursday night, in one case throwing an object that struck a partygoer in the head.<\/p>\n
District of Columbia police closed off a block to motor vehicles as hundreds of demonstrators filled the roadway. Some protesters raised their middle fingers, and shouted obscenities and terms such as “racist” and Nazi” to those attending the celebratory ball on the eve of Trump’s inauguration.<\/p>\n
A small group of protesters in hoods and black masks set a fire in the center of the street. Another fire was set in a trash can. A different group used a floodlight and stencil to project the phrases “Bragging about Grabbing a Woman’s Genitals” and “Impeach the Predatory President” onto the side of the Press Club building. Others inflated a 15-foot-tall white elephant with a banner attached that said “racism.”<\/p>\n