Trump NYC rally crowd pissed about lack of toilets for supporters outside MSG: Like a third-world country!
Trump supporters in Midtown Manhattan for Sunday’s blockbuster rally at Madison Square Garden were forced to find creative ways to relieve themselves when they arrived to find no portable toilets in sight — and some wondered whether the oversight was intended as a thumb in the eye to the MAGA crowd.An estimated 2,000 supporters camped out on MSG overnight — and some said they had been waiting up to 48 hours before doors opened Sunday morning.By 10 a.m.there were more than 10,000 people waiting for blocks and blocks around the Midtown venue.
And not a toilet to be found.“We’re peeing in bags and little cups, and we had to put up a little portable privacy shower so people didn’t have to look at each other when they did that,” said Dorothea Ohlandt, 59, who got in line for the Madison Square Garden rally at 10 a.m.
Friday after driving all the way from North Carolina.She said she’s been to Trump rallies all over the country, but that New York City was the only place that failed to provide even basic accommodations.Ohlandt, who said she had a hysterectomy five weeks ago and is diabetic, said when she asked officers if she could leave the secure area to go to the bathroom, she was told she couldn’t return to her spot in line.“So we had to do this,” she said.
She gestured to a pile of bottles with urine around her makeshift campsite, adding that it’s “insane!”“Why didn’t they put any porta potties out here for us? Why did the city decide not to do that? It’s like a third-world country!”As the security barriers erected around Madison Square Garden started filling up early Saturday, Trump supporters learned to their dismay that venturing beyond their confines for a pee break would be a one-way ticket, and that they wouldn’t be allowed back in line.“This is just like a screw you to the Trump supporters from New York City!” Jennifer Sasser, 46, who arrived in New York City Friday morning after driving from Wisconsin to ensure she n...