Unpresidented TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS
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Special Edition Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. SU V1 V2 V3 V4 Sunny 75/69 • Tomorrow: Partly sunny 74/68 B6 Democracy Awakens in Action MAY DAY • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 • FREE Unpresidented TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS “BLAME CROOKED Celebrations HILLARY & HFIOR” break out Surge of protests proves worldwide too much for Trump as Trump by Lisa Chung the capital — On May 1, bare- era ends ly six months after the midterm elections, Donald Trump ap- pears to have abandoned the Entire globe breathes White House and abdicated sigh of relief at end of his role as president. He issued no formal statement, though dark period four White House aides — who spoke on the condition of an- by Sara Gabriel Ramos onymity — claim they found a napkin on the president’s desk washington — When news in the Oval Office on the eve- of Donald Trump’s abdication ning of April 30, scrawled in spread through Amsterdam, it red ink with the following mes- literally stopped traffic, as the sage: “Blame Crooked Hillary & normally reserved Dutch lay Hfior & the Fake News Media.” down their bicycles and strang- The aides claim they received ers hugged strangers. no other warning of Trump’s In South Korea, thousands of departure apart from this nap- women gathered in Seoul Plaza kin, and have no knowledge and lit candles in what organiz- of his whereabouts. Similarly, ers there called a group prayer they cannot explain the mean- of gratitude for nuclear peace. ing or significance of “Hfior.” And in New Delhi, a massive Flight-tracking databases show dance party led by LGBTQ ac- Former President Trump slips into a private car in the wee hours of the morning. REUTERS the departure of a private, lux- tivists spilled down city blocks ury helicopter — a Bell 429 and featured a synchronized MAGnificent — from the im- two-minute kiss-in to represent mediate vicinity of the White the half-term that now-Presi- House at 3:15 am on May 1. dent Mike Pence will serve out. Pres. Pence begins ‘clipped duck’ term Tracking shows that same heli- Worldwide, impromptu street copter eventually landed in the parties popped up in major cit- Crimean resort city of Yalta. ies and small towns as people New president starts term ‘Penced In’ by predecessor’s embarrassing reign of failure and crime “This is unprecedented,” said realized the American presi- Tanisha Jones, Distinguished dent had fled. As news spread by Elodie Lewis Professor of American Histo- of what appeared to be the first now Mike Pence will be regarded ry at Columbia University. “No U.S. presidential resignation primarily as the answer to a trivia other president in history has since Richard Nixon, crowds When Mike Pence took the oath question,” said Josephine Ellis, the fled the White House like this.” from Buenos Aires to Seoul to of the presidency on his grand- Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential Jones also remarked that the Cape Town waved American mother’s Bible, with his wife Karen biographer. “And it will seem an massive women-led protests flags, played American music, at his side, he stepped into one of unfairly obscure question, at that.” that paralyzed cities around the and congratulated the United the murkiest sinkholes in Amer- Aside from Gerald Ford’s forget- country last weekend are sim- States. ican history. Two years of a Don- table turn in the Oval Office from ilarly unprecedented, in both In Paris, an estimated ald Trump presidency changed 1974 to 1977, there’s no ready com- their size and the speed with 100,000 people flooded the the office forever, and his suc- parison to the precarious position which they came together. “It’s streets to celebrate as the cessor was always bound to face Pence faces as he takes over the hard to imagine that these two French do: riotously. “Today unique challenges governing. But job. But the new president, known things — Americans rising up is like when we win the World in the aftermath of Trump’s ab- as a savvy operator in his 12 years to demand Trump’s resignation Cup,” yelled Pauline Léon, “ex- dication, the first question facing as an Indiana Congressman, must and Trump disappearing — are cept that the whole world wins.” the 46th president of the United know the score. A solid Demo- unrelated.” She paused for a moment, then States was simply what a Pence cratic majority in the House didn’t In an early morning press added: “It’s universal — could administration might possibly sal- get the satisfaction of impeaching conference, White House vage during the rest of his term. Press Secretary Sarah Hucka- CELEBRATIONS CONT. ON A5 If the initial read by histori- PENCE CONTINUED ON A2 bee Sanders eluded questions ans and political observers is cor- OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO Traits in common about Trump’s departure. “I’m rect, the answer is: not much. President Pence at his hurried swearing in. A man with little time and fewer options Kim Jong Un on Trump’s departure A7 “I suspect that 50 years from President Pence faces narrow path. A2 DEPARTURE CONTINUED ON A5 From The actions that turned the tide How DC #MeToo Women took the lead in ousting Trump stepped to ‘You’re by Francesca Lu time really massive numbers of us up to shut marched over the Brooklyn Bridge “Well done, team.” That message to protest outside Chuck Schum- was posted by the Wisconsin-based er’s apartment,” she said, referring down Trump Fired’ “Cheesehead Indivisible” group on to the Senate Minority Leader. their Facebook page shortly after Wood was part of an action on Feb- by Alexis Berryhill the news broke that Trump had fled ruary 14 in which 15,000 people “Finally!” say women the White House. While Trump’s crowded the streets of the mostly sudden departure was a bombshell residential neighborhood of Park Dody T. Michaels recalls a for many, those who were active in Slope, Brooklyn. “Instead of going night this past winter when he opposing his agenda and his pres- to Times Square or Trump Tow- treated some friends to cock- by Simone Williamson ence in office reacted with a dis- er,” said Wood, “we took it home. tails in the plush environs of tinctly unsurprised tone. Schumer and other Democratic Off the Record. Seated near- by were a couple of 30-some- washington — The nasty, “Cause and effect,” said Ange- SARAH JASMINE MONTGOMERY/THE DAILY DOT leaders had sometimes talked a brutish, and ultimately short la Binai, an organizer with the good line, but they didn’t start do- thing women, and the two presidency of Donald Trump Cheesehead group, when reached ing anything to counter Trump un- groups chatted at the bar, he was only a few hours old when for comment. “We were very strate- til they became the target of highly braced for the inevitable ques- it was met with the counter- gic in what we did, who we target- focused popular pressure.” tion: So, what do you guys do? force that would define his time ed, and how we escalated, especial- Muntaha Arain, the author At the time, Michaels was in office. Women’s Marches ly after January.” That message was and historian of American polit- the Assistant Secretary for Bor- flooded some 650 towns and echoed by representatives of more ical movements, noted that this der, Immigration and Trade cities nationwide with pro- than a dozen other “resistance” and change-up in strategy occurred na- Policy at the Department of testers waving signs, pushing protest groups, independent and tionwide. “There was no one straw Homeland Security, and he’d strollers, chanting slogans, Indivisible-affiliated, in places as that broke the camel’s back,” Arain learned to keep mum in such and wearing crocheted pink disparate as Corvallis, Montana; said. “But this was about changing social settings. That night, his hats topped with cat ears. The Stockton, California; Denton, Tex- targets and tactics.” That evolution friend three drinks in blurted crowd in Washington D.C. as; and Durham, North Carolina. in grassroots strategy in the months out something about Michaels alone was estimated to be three New York City organizer Felicia leading up to May 1 increased the being “Trump’s main hom- times as large as the audience Wood remembers one specific ac- overall sense of the president’s iso- bre for the Mexican border.” tion as a turning point: “You could Top: Teenagers used dresses to blockade offices. #METOO CONTINUED ON A7 TURNED TIDE CONTINUED ON A7 STEPPED UP CONTINUED ON A5 feel the shift in energy the first Bottom: Americans flooded the streets nationwide. 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