Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore paid a visit to Trump Tower on Saturday to deliver a message to President-elect Trump: “You lost. Step aside.”
Using a smartphone, Moore took to Facebook Live for 90 minutes to share his attempt to meet Trump at his primary residence. After entering the lobby, Moore took escalators as far as the fourth floor before Secret Service turned him away.
Trying another route, Moore went to the front desk outside the lobby elevator. The clerk at the desk called Trump’s office to see if he would allow Moore up for a visit, but didn’t get an answer.
“Nobody’s picking up. He’s not in the office,” the clerk said, adding that he didn’t believe Trump was in the building. Moore also said he had spoken to Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, last Saturday at Trump Tower, but the attendant said she too was not around.
Moore then left a note for Trump at the desk, in which he wrote, “Mr. Trump. I’m here! I want to talk to you.” He then went outside to join demonstrators protesting Trump’s election win.
Moore said his visit was meant to convince Trump to step away from the presidency, because he lost the popular vote. He called Trump an “illegitimate president” who did not have the vote of the majority of Americans. On Twitter, Moore added, “I was able to get into Trump Tower & deliver him a message: ‘You lost. Step aside.'”
I was able to get into Trump Tower & deliver him a message: “You lost. Step aside.” SS took the note I wrote up & went 2 give it to him.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) November 12, 2016
“[W]e have to get rid of the Electoral College,” Moore said at one point in the Facebook Live stream, which has 1.9 million views. He said the system was a “slave-owning idea” backed by low-population Southern states.
A supporter of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Moore released a film just week before the election, “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” in which he was very critical of Trump.
But, he also said before the election that he thought Trump would win, predicting a “Rust Belt Brexit.”
“I wanted to be wrong,” Moore lamented, and said his message was meant to rally voters against Trump.
Moore also wore a safety pin on Saturday, which he said was for white people to show minority groups that they want to help them feel safe ahead of an imminent Trump administration.
It is to show “I will be there,” Moore said, to “create a safe zone.”
