Dion Cini, a former Marine from the Upper West Side of Manhattan climbs into his 18-foot rowing boat and paddles the Hudson River with a flag that says
Trump 2020
He does it a lot. And he does it to get a reaction and, boy does he ever.
“Sometimes you hear ‘I hope you get hit by a boat! I hope you drown From the top of their lungs as loud as they can. I get it all the time.
There’s so much fear of Trump in New York.“
He started this routine this spring after seeing a swell of protests against Trump in the city.
“Donald Trump is a piece of shit!”
“Fuck Trump!”
Cini taunts and provokes them more and argues back. In his months of rowing he finds that support for Trump increases in areas with visiting tourists. But he gets a lot of thumbs down, and many extend a different finger.
He has no plans to stop.
“I’m out of goals. I have nowhere else to go in the world. I don’t really want to climb Mt. Everest. I almost see this as climbing Mt. Everest. It’s one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever done in my life –knowing how many people do not like me in a small space and continue to survive.“
The definition of an asshole, if you ask me.
(Photos, Screengrab; via CNN)
