A towering 'Baby Trump' protest balloon was knifed and deflated during President Trump's trip to the Alabama vs. LSU football game, organizers say.
The Tuscaloosa Police Department said on Facebook that officers saw Hoyt Deau Hutchinson, 32, of Tuscaloosa, cut into the balloon and then try to flee. They arrested him on suspicion of criminal mischief first degree, and he was being held in Tuscaloosa County Jail on $2,500 bond.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended the game Saturday between the LSU Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.The orange, diaper-clad, cellphone-clutching caricature of the president is often taken to Trump appearances as a way to protest him. Baby Trump first rose over London when local activists brainstormed a way to troll Trump. Now several groups raise money to bring balloon replicas around the U.S.
Robert Kennedy, a volunteer"baby sitter" who brought the balloon to Tuscaloosa, said it immediately began to sag after it was cut.The day had been going mostly smoothly, Kennedy said. Some people yelled"Trump 2020" as they passed while others posed for selfies with the balloon. But then Kennedy said a man sidled up on the back of the balloon and attacked it with a knife. He ran away but was caught by police officers, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said he has accompanied Baby Trump to many appearances and never witnessed an attack on the balloon, although someone did stab a Baby Trump balloon in London earlier this year.
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