Donald Tump

Trump circus comes to town in a deafening cacophony of heliopters, skirmishes, drums and traded insults

Amid the noise and the mayhem, the former US president was finger-printed in a vast seventeen-storey courthouse in Lower Manhattan which had been cleared of everyone except those directly related to Trump’s arraignment

Supporters and opponents of former US president Donald Trump at Manhattan Criminal Court during his arraignment last week. Picture: Getty

A Martian who landed in Lower Manhattan last Tuesday morning would be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into an open-air audition for carnival barkers.

The sounds of helicopters whirring overhead competed with the sounds of bells, whistles, bullhorn-amplified tirades, drums and a cacophony of “Fuck You” “No! Fuck You” exchanges that reached a deafening crescendo.

Signs mocking Trump – “There’s no hairspray in prison Donnie” vied with giant flags proclaiming “Trump or Death”.

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