We’re now seeing (safe for work) images of Sunday evening’s “Mass Mooning” of Chicago’s Trump Tower.
Thanks, in part, to an unseasonably warm evening, hundreds of Chicagoans took part in the event, protesting President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The event, announced just a week ago, had quickly gained steam among anti-Trump activists, and by mid-Sunday afternoon, a massive crowd had gathered outside Chicago’s Trump Tower, located downtown. Some carried traditional posterboard protest signs; others told local media that they had messages for Trump printed elsewhere.
At the “crack of 4 o’clock,” the protesters chanted “This is what democracy looks like!” and then dropped trou, mooning the landmark.
Fox 32 Chicago news captured the moment for posterity (the video shows the protesters’ front sides, so its safe for work…mostly).
Thankfully for the protesters, temperatures in Chicago, which typically hover around 10 degrees in early February, were a mild 40. There were no reported injuries, and no frostbitten backsides.
The protest was organized by SH#!Show, a comedy and improv troupe that performs in Chicago. Organizers said that their goal was to get the Republican president’s attention, and to demand that Trump release his tax returns, as he (by some accounts) promised to do during the campaign.
“If 500 people go up to that tower and pull their pants down it’s not going to go unnoticed, and that’s the goal,” SH#!Show’s Bailey Davis told DNAInfo Chicago back in early February.
It’s not immediately clear if Trump, who spent the weekend at his “Winter White House” in Florida, was aware of the mass mooning. The improv troupe plans to produce a professional, narrative video of the event. They have yet to announce a release date.
