Trump's motorcade was met with chants of 'Lock him up!'

Protesters against President Trump in NYC — (Image credit: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)

President Trump traveled from Washington to New York City on Saturday to attend fundraising events, and his reception in Manhattan was less than friendly. Protesters chanted "traitor," "Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go," and "Lock him up," the latter a reference to the president's supporters chanting "Lock her up" about his then-rival Hillary Clinton in 2016.

It is unclear whether the protesters in New York were referring to Trump or Flynn in their chants. Flynn was known for encouraging the chants about Clinton, once remarking that had he done "a 10th of what she did," he "would be in jail today."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.