Anti-Trophy Hunting Activists Protest Trump Brothers and Safari Club International
The News
On February 25th, approximately 30 animal rights activists in New York City staged a disruption in the lobby of Trump Tower as part of the Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting (WRATH), an annual multi-city demonstration produced by CompassionWorks International. Organizers of the NYC rally chose Trump Tower because Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have participated in many well-publicized trophy hunts and have posted photos with their victims.
Activists also staged rallies in Denver, Chicago, Birmingham (U.K.) and Nashville, where Safari Club International’s annual hunting convention took place. WRATH, which is timed to coincide with the annual convention, aims to “raise awareness about the ego-driven and senseless murder of countless wild animals by trophy hunters.”
During the Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting, animal rights activists in NYC staged a die-in in Trump Tower in memory of the animals who Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump slaughtered on their trophy hunting expeditions. After the lobby disruption, the activists continued the rally on busy Fifth Avenue.
In NYC, organizers rented a mobile billboard that projected images of trophy hunters, including the Trumps, and played a wrap song called Hunter! Listen up by Entyce. The song is featured in TheirTurn’s video about the NYC rally.
As part of the Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting (WRATH), a mobile billboard driving through Midtown Manhattan displayed images of trophy hunters and their victims
After protesting and staging a die in inside of Trump Tower, the activists exited the building and conducted educational outreach with tourists in the bustling midtown neighborhood. While most of the pedestrians who acknowledged the rally were supportive, some Trump supporters and hunters taunted the activists.
In an apparent effort to taunt WRATH participants, a pedestrian repeatedly stated that hunting is fun and encouraged protesters to try it.
In 2015, anti-trophy hunting sentiment moved into the mainstream when Cecil, a beloved lion in Zimbabwe, was shot and killed by Walter Palmer, a big game hunter from Minnesota. The killing of Cecil, which was widely reported in mainstream media outlets, led U.S. Fish and Wildlife to add lions in Africa and India to the endangered species list, making it more difficult for Americans to partake in lion hunting.
Walter Palmer, a trophy hunter from Minnesota, killed and beheaded Cecil, a beloved lion in Zimbabwe.
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How scummy, arrogant and barbaric this guy is. A perfect poster child for the people who trophy hunt.
TROHY HUNTING IS BARBARIC ? & Anyone that does this is a monster , There is NO SPORT in this just Mudering a INOCENT ANIMAL THAT WANTS TO LIVE LIKE ANY LIVEING PERSON
“There’s no such thing as an ethical hunter! Forget hunters’ feeble rationalizations and trust your gut feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior”.
The Oxford Dictionary defines sport as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for entertainment”. In hunting, the stalked animal is not an equal, not a competitor; not a willing participant and certainly not there, for “entertainment”. Thus, hunting is actually not a “sport”, and those who participate are clearly not “sportsmen”. They are in fact nothing more than KILLERS, MURDERERS…COWARDS wearing camo, hiding in blinds, safely behind powerful weapons, the powerful rifles that will destroy, maim, and cause suffering.
We’re no longer living in caves! Lies, ignorance, indifference to suffering, are hallmarks of those who kill for the thrill! Hunting, trapping of innocent wildlife, is indicative of a modern-day pathology that persists in spite of greater awareness and evolution of our species.
These are not “hunters”, those who in times long gone by “hunted” and killed for survival….so let’s stop dignifying animal murderers, killers, butchers – pathologically disturbed, sadistic, perverse monsters, with what THEY want to call themselves, and tell it like it is! These bottom-crawling sub-humans, exist in their own subterranean universe, where they see themselves as some kind of “super-man”, when in actuality they need to prove their “manhood”, over and over again, by slaughtering innocent animals, the bigger, the more savage, the better. But babies, injured, and nursing mothers will do, as well. They are pitiful specimens of our species, demented left-overs, that sadly, have not yet been eliminated by evolution!
And what are we teaching our children when we ignore and/or attempt to suppress their innate compassion and love for animals and teach them instead, that it is OK to kill defenseless creatures? Violence and pathological behavior begin with the belief that you have the “right” to harm, maim and, in the case of hunting, take satisfaction and pleasure from killing innocent animals – living, breathing, sentient beings – who want to live as much as we do.
Hunters are narcissistic, insecure cowards, who doubt their own manhood – ignorant, often disturbed, pathological animal killers – lacking compassion or empathy for other living creatures. “Every species values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value. All sentient beings, human and non-human alike, are morally equal.”
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is, and do something about it – whether the victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in this world…We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.”
~Rachel Carson
I voted for President Trump two times and appreciate his efforts to help the victims in East Palestine Ohio especially. He is a necessary support at critical times. I DO NOT SUPPORT ERIC TRUMP’S TROPHY HUNTING AND HAVE SEEN THESE PHOTOS! I HAVE READ PRESIDENT TRUMP STATEMENTS THAT HE DOES NOT TROPHY HUNT PERSONALLY. ERIC TRUMP! STOP TROPHY HUNTING! PROTECT THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS! WORK FOR THE ANIMALS! ENCOURAGE THEIR SURVIVAL INSTEAD OF DESTROYING.