Post on teen getting booted from Trump rally goes viral Tresa Baldas , Detroit
Free Press One wore a 'Dump the Trump' T-shirt with a toilet painted on it.
The other had on a Bernie Sanders hat. For 45 minutes, no one bothered the two
young women as they stood quietly among the crowd of Donald Trump supporters
at the Warren rally Friday. But then a group of teenage boys started pointing
at them, yelling, booing trying to get Trump's attention. It worked. "Throw
em out! Get em out of here! one of the women recalled Trump yelling from the
podium. Lauren Underwood, 19, a first-time voter from Garden City who went
to the rally with an open mind and a crass T-shirt, said she went numb as two
security guards escorted her and her friend out, and told them not to come
back or they'd be arrested. "I was shocked and numbed. I wasn't concerned for
my safety. I was shocked that all these people have so much hatred toward
people," said Underwood, who went home and shared her story with the world on
Facebook. Underwood's post about her Trump experience has gone viral, triggering
more than 50,000 shares. "I expected friends to comment, but I didn't expect it
to go crazy so quickly," Underwood said. Underwood, who is studying social
science at the University of Michigan, said she felt compelled to share her
story because she wants people to know how Trump acts when he's confronted
with people who disagree with him. Efforts to reach the Trump campaign Saturday
were unsuccessful. As for the Trump supporters, Underwood said she met
a lot of nice and friendly people, including some who complimented her
clothing, and one male who stuck up for her and her friend, Stephanie Suboch,
telling
the security guard, "Wait. They didn't do anything wrong. They weren't being
disruptive. "We weren't looking to cause a scene. We had intentions of standing
there quietly" she said. "I went in to hear what he had to say. I even agreed
with him on some points. She conceded that her T-shirt wasn't exactly
Trump-friendly.
I figured I'd get some comments. But I didn't think I'd get kicked out of the
building," she said, noting the incident hasn't tainted her view on the
political
process, or taken away from the excitement of voting in a presidential election
for the first time "It just kind of made me more sure about my own views,"
said Underwood, who has a question for Trump: " 'Why are you so angry? If you
want to be the president, why would you not acknowledge that people disagree.
In a democracy, people disagree. That's how it runs. That's how it works. I
don't' know how you can just assume people will be on your side all the time.
