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Photo Diary: Trump Rally v. Anti-Trump Protest at Madison Square Garden, NYC

By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com[email protected]

20,000 packed Madison Square Garden for Trump’s rally, while thousands more were turned away after waiting hours on lines that stretched for blocks around the arena.

Trumpamania comes to New York City © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Out on the street with the MAGAs waiting for hours as we inched toward Madison Square Garden (only to be turned away), I heard the emphatic belief that Trump would win by a landslide, and anything less was theft. There were remarks about 2020 being stolen but not letting that happen again, and “fake news” of anything that was vaguely negative about Trump. No mention of indictments, convictions, being called a fascist by his own chief of staff and generals. There were also vulgarities spewed against Harris.

Those who couldn’t get in were offered a chance to watch the rally on a jumbotron outside the arena.

Meanwhile hundreds of anti-Trump protesters, waving signs that said “No Dictators in the USA,” “Fascist,” “Unfit” and “We’ve Seen This Before” (a reference to the 1939 American Nazi rally held at MSG and the rise of Hitler and Fascism that led to World War II) lined the Post Office steps across 8th Avenue from the Garden.

Here is what the scenes looked like:

Admiring the Trump golden high-top © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters waited on line for hours in order to get into his Madison Square Garden rally; some 40,000 tickets were issued but the arena only holds 20,000, so thousands were sent away © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters waited on line for hours in order to get into his Madison Square Garden rally; some 40,000 tickets were issued but the arena only holds 20,000, so thousands were sent away © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters waited on line for hours in order to get into his Madison Square Garden rally; some 40,000 tickets were issued but the arena only holds 20,000, so thousands were sent away © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters waited on line for hours in order to get into his Madison Square Garden rally; some 40,000 tickets were issued but the arena only holds 20,000, so thousands were sent away © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Those Trump supporters who couldn’t get into the arena could watch rally speakers like  Rudolph Giuliani on a jumbotron outside © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.comHall

Meanwhile, anti-Trump protesters were also out in force:

Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Trump protesters outside Madison Square Garden © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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