An unofficial Marine Corps birthday get-together took an odd turn in Florida Thursday night, when an anti-Trump protest walked by the bar where they’d gathered.
The Marines got into a heated shouting match with the protesters, but a strong police presence prevented things from getting out of hand.
About 100 Marines were on the first stop of an unofficial pub crawl to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 241st birthday — the site of the Corps’ first recruiting drive was in a tavern, after all — when a crowd of about 150 protesters passed by, said Johnny Gomes, who was in the Irish pub at the time.
“There were people with their signs yelling about fascism,” Gomes told Marine Corps Times on Friday. “There were some yelling profanity. There were some yelling ‘Black Lives Matter;’ ‘Trump is not our president.’ So there was a big mix.”
The Marines at the pub “didn’t really care for that” and started yelling back at the protesters, Gomes said.
Fortunately for the snowflakes, only free speech occurred, but it was close. Next time they had best plan their route better.
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