A group of high school students were kicked out of a Donald Trump rally after holding up a protest sign saying, “Trump Makes America Hate Again.” More than a dozen students turned up at the Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in order to “to remind Trump and his supporters that while different political ideologies are completely acceptable, hateful and divisive rhetoric is not.”
With the words written on a large sheet, they made their way into the center of the crowd and held it up. One of the students, Noah Miracle, said that the banner was then ripped out of their hands and stomped on by Trump supporters.
Their actions were praised on social media, with many people saying that they had “won the internet.”
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The students had skipped school in order to go to the rally, despite warnings from their parents about being grounded if they did so.
“I didn’t feel like two weeks of being grounded and losing my car was worth not going with my group of supporters to go against someone or something that I believed in,” Kieran King-Sellars, another of the students, said.
He added that he was happy because both the cameras and Trump saw the protest banner.
As they were being escorted out, one of Trump’s supporters yelled, “You can go to prison with Hillary,” while pointing at one of the students. There were reportedly many people wearing the popular “Hillary for Prison 2016” t-shirts at the rally, a reference to the desire of some Republicans to see Hillary Clinton brought to justice for alleged mishandling of the Benghazi US Embassy attack in 2012.
