WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Earlier, it was reported that about 200 protesters marched through the city on Wednesday night and gathered at the Trump International Hotel with slogans "USA! No Trump! No KKK! No Fascism!", "Not My President!" and "Abolish Electoral College!"
The number of the demonstrators later increased to about 500. Several areas in the city center were closed to traffic.
One person in the crowd had an LGBT flag. A large number of the demonstrators were African American and Latino. Some chanted the 1970s Chilean resistance song ("El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido!" or "The people united will never be defeated!") in Spanish.
Prior to that, the crowd turned over multiple newspaper vending machines on their way to the White House.
Trump won in the Tuesday US presidential elections, despite expectations that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton would come ahead. Trump secured more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the US presidency, although Clinton won the popular vote with the support of 59.6 million Americans.
On Wednesday, hundreds of people staged anti-Trump protests across the country, including in New York City and the states of California, Oregon and Washington.
A group of students from American University in the US capital staged an anti-Trump protest and burned an American flag.
