"Hey hey, ho ho Donald Trump has got to go!" members of the group shouted, protesting his policies as they marched up 12th Avenue toward a decommissioned aircraft carrier serving as a museum where Trump was scheduled to dine with the Australian prime minister yesterday.
"Trump listen, we're in the fight!" they sang in Spanish. Some protesters banged on pots and pans.
"Protect Americans, Save Obamacare," one placard read.
"I'm just here to protest everything Trump," real estate broker Nina Horowitz said. "It just gets worse and worse and he's just not president material by any stretch of the imagination."
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"We're hoping it can get defeated in the Senate," Horowitz said. It's just shocking to me."
Multiple groups are organising protests to mark Trump's first visit to his hometown since becoming president. The Republican's policies are heavily disliked in the largely Democratic city, where 80 percent of the electorate voted for his opponent Hillary Clinton last November.
His moves to restrict immigration, roll back federal protections for transgender students and assault Obamacare are all widely unwelcome in America's most populous city, and one of its most liberal.
"I'm here to show my discontent with Donald Trump and the example that he's setting and the way that he's leading this country based on hate, bigotry and divisiveness," said one of the march organisers, Flav Maximus, 39.
"He's an anti-intellectual who's not qualified for the job and I believe he contradicts what America is supposed to be about.
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