Law enforcement officials on Sept. 7 removed a blue tent outside the White House under the order of President Donald Trump, who alleged that the tent was linked to the “communist cause.”
The blue tent marks a 44-year-long protest against nuclear weaponry, started by activist William Thomas in 1981 on Lafayette Square.
At a nearby red umbrella tent, which was still there on Monday, a handful of individuals played the Chinese anthem.
“We got it down very quickly. It’s down,” Trump said in a speech at the Museum of the Bible, adding that the removal “wasn’t easy” and that “people chained themselves to a tree.”…
Trump Removes Decades-Old Blue Tent in Front of White House, Citing ‘Communist Cause’
