Female cyclist gives Trump’s motorcade ‘middle-finger’ salute

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Female cyclist gives Trump’s motorcade ‘middle-finger’ salute
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by Muhammad Irfan | Published on October 29, 2017 (Edited October 29, 2017)

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VIRGINIA – We don’t know if Donald Trump looked out of his car as the presidential motorcade left his Virginia resort on Saturday. If he did, he would have been treated to the bizarre sight of a cyclist alongside giving him the middle finger.

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The scene in which a female cyclist raised her middle finger in the direction of his motorcade was witnessed by reporters in the presidential pool and captured by a photographer from an international news agency.

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I just saw this happen as we left the Trump golf course in Sterling, Virginia.

According to a pool report, the motorcade first encountered two pedestrians who gave it the thumbs down sign as it left the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.

“Then it overtook a female cyclist, wearing a white top and cycling helmet, who responded by giving the middle finger,” the report read. “The motorcade had to slow and the cyclist caught up, still offering the finger, before turning in a different direction.”

The bird-flipping woman has not yet been identified and no pool footage of the incident has been released.

Trump’s Virginia trip is his 96th visit to one of his properties since the beginning of his presidency, and 76 of those have have been to golf clubs, according to a tracker from NBC.

 

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That's funny, but kinda scary in a way that the police escort allowed her to be that close to the vehicles. Usually they send a bike-cop ahead of the motorcade to clear the roads of any pedestrians or anyone on bikes of any kind. They'll stop them or redirect them or something but never allow them to be side by side to the presidential motorcade. Definitely bizarre.

 

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Cyclist who gave Trump the middle finger fired from her job
AFP | Published — Monday 6 November 2017

This file photo taken on October 28, 2017 shows a woman on a bike gestures with her middle finger as a motorcade with US President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia. (AFP)
WASHINGTON: Juli Briskman didn’t think twice when she gave President Donald Trump the finger as his motorcade passed her while she was cycling on a road near his golf club.
“He was passing by and my blood just started to boil,” the Democrat mother of two, 50, told HuffPost.
“I’m thinking, he’s at the damn golf course again.”
But the obscene gesture, captured on October 28 by AFP White House photographer Brendan Smialowski, who was riding in Trump’s convoy, quickly went viral. And it has now cost the single mom her job.
The president had gone to his Trump National Golf Club on the banks of the Potomac River, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of the White House.
Briskman lives nearby and was out for a Saturday bike ride when the convoy of black SUVs drove past.
Smialowski, a veteran of White House motorcades, said he always keeps his camera ready to shoot.
“You never know what you might see. You never know what might happen,” he said. Gestures from bystanders, thumbs up or middle fingers, are common.
In this case, he said, Briskman “seemed to know exactly who was inside those vehicles.”
After the first time the convoy passed her, she caught up again when it stopped at a red light.
“What made this particular cyclist unique was her tenacity — once the motorcade passed her, she managed to catch back up and share her feelings again,” he said.
The photo only showed Briskman from the back, unidentifiable, her left arm out and middle finger up.
It didn’t take her long to realize that she was the person in the photo soon all over the Internet and television. She proudly posted it as her profile picture on her Facebook and Twitter pages.
It isn’t known whether Trump saw the gesture. But it didn’t please Briskman’s bosses at Akima LLC, a builder that does work for the US government and military.
Three days later they told Briskman, a marketing officer, she had to go.
“They said, ‘We’re separating from you,’” Briskman told HuffPost.
“Basically, you cannot have ‘lewd’ or ‘obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ‘obscene.’“
Briskman and Akima could not be contacted early Monday for comment.
But the photograph remained at the top of her social media pages.
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Just beautiful the gesture by the cyclist

 

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But "she" hasn't got what she's giving...!