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10 Crazy Things I Saw at CPAC 2017

By Samuel Smith, Deputy Managing Editor FacebookTwitter
Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate outside the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at the same time in which President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of conservatives gathered for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Feb. 24, 2017.
Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate outside the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at the same time in which President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of conservatives gathered for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Feb. 24, 2017. | (Photo: The Christian Post / Samuel Smith)

5. Anti-Trump protesters

As President Donald Trump gave his address to the CPAC crowd Friday morning, there was a small group of protesters in the public lawn area out front of the hotel holding up signs and mildly chanting.

Some of the signs read: "Impeach Putin's Poodle," "Unlike My Healthcare, My Rage is Free of Charge," "Hands of My ACA," and "Not My President."

The demonstrators also chanted things like "Hands off our health care!" and "No hate! No fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

"We are protesting Donald Trump's policies," a local Prince George's County resident named Betty told The Christian Post. "Especially the health care because so many people are going to be without health care and we feel for those people because they are going to be in the streets and they are going to have choose between medicine or eating."

The protesters dispersed shortly after Trump's speech ended.

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