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This weekend, a few hundred LGBTQ protesters swarmed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s ritzy Washington D.C. neighborhood to have a giant “Queer Dance Party for Climate Justice” outside their home.
This isn’t the first time during this administration that activism has taken the form of a queer dance party–remember the same group, WERK for Peace, threw Mike Pence a welcome-to-the-neighborhood party?
The Daily Mail had pictures of the protestors dancing and marching, but there was one photograph that immediately stood out: that of one of Trump and Kushner’s neighbors, in a big fur coat, wine in hand, delighting in the goings-on.
Je Suis Ivanka’s Petty Neighbor pic.twitter.com/u3ymnvW31F
— Mitchell Sunderland (@mitchsunderland) April 3, 2017
And the internet promptly fell in love.
The neighbor watching the LGBT protest in front of Ivanka Trump’s house while drinking white wine is definitely invited to gay brunch. pic.twitter.com/Lum7pwuOsz
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) April 3, 2017
I aim for the level of petty of being Ivanka Trump’s neighbor watching her house being protested in fur with a glass of wine. pic.twitter.com/KIV2Hq7jv3
— Eliel Cruz-Lopez (@elielcruz) April 3, 2017
current mood:
Ivanka’s neighbor gleefully watching the protest outside her house while wearing a fur and holding a glass of wine. pic.twitter.com/mRJy3LiMjT
— Blake Parker (@blakeaparker) April 3, 2017
Aesthetic goals: Ivanka Trump’s neighbor sipping wine in a fur coat as a protest goes down 💅🏼🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/osvamoECkj
— C.J. Hᴀsᴡᴇʟʟ (@carpeydiem) April 3, 2017
Whether it’s because of her opinion on the Trump family’s politics, or because having Ivanka in the neighborhood is reportedly pretty awful, this neighbor with her wine is the new Kermit sipping tea.
The protest must have been inconvenient to the neighbors, sure. (And it turns out Trump wasn’t even home. She was in New York that night. But I think the message still got through.) But aside from reports of one 82-year-old man threatening to hit a protestor, the neighborhood, made up mostly of Democrats, and mostly of people who have already been inconvenienced by Trump, seemed like they were on-board.
Ivanka’s my next door neighbor. Tonight I was not in DC, and missed the greatest chance I’ll ever have to throw the sweetest house party. https://t.co/1D7YLXlZvG
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) April 2, 2017
The wine-sipping neighbor, whose name is Dianne Bruce, told TIME she wasn’t the only one enjoying it. According to her, a few neighbors were all drinking and watching the party together. She says “It was the entertainment for Saturday night.”
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