11/14/2015
From: Ed Hunter
Last week the Washington desk of the French TV station âFrance 2â contacted us at the Maryland Tea Party and said they wanted to go up on the overpass and conduct an interview on the Donald Trump phenomenon. About 2 PM we arrive at the bridge over I-95 Northbound, and we set up the banners and are waving to people on the interstate below.
The rush hours is beginning and the traffic is starting to slow down as it passed under us. The French TV crew arrives about an hour later around 3 PM. They get out their big expensive TV camera, and the French reporter Valerie begins asking questions. Some of them were hard to answer such as âWhat does Donald Trump mean?â or âIs this a popular provocation?â (The usual French stuff. How can you answer those types of questions?) Anyway, they get around to the subject of immigration and I can sense I am up against the usual PC wall as they try to get âracistâ stuff out of me. So she says âOkay just try to summarize Trump in a way that makes sense to people in France.â So I said âDonald Trump is an American version of Marine Le Pen.â Then she asked if I supported Le Pen and I said, âAbsolutelyâ.
I told her that Muslim immigration will be the end of France and Europe. Then I asked them (off camera) if they felt that way, and they replied âOh no ⌠it is all a stunt, we do not have a immigration problem in France. These Muslims are French. They came to France to help us rebuild France. I said. âFrench built France. Why canât you rebuild it yourself? â
They looked at me as the typical redneck American. So as we are talking the noise from the honking from the interstate is rising to a crescendo. The honking and cheers for the Trump banners is getting so loud we canât continue the conversation. The French say goodbye and get into their car and leave. I am asking myself âWhat is going on? Why is everyone reacting to the banners which read âCANT BE BOUGHT ⌠VOTE TRUMPâ?â The whole Interstate has erupted. Everyone below as far as I can see is going nuts and cheering and leaning on their horn and screaming out the windows âDonald! Donald!â And we are waving back and this is going on for about an hour. And we canât figure it all out. So itâs 5:30 PM and getting dark and cold. We take down the banners and drive to Starbucks for coffee when someone calls with the news about the Paris attacks.
The very moment that the French media elites were repeating the PC leftist party line ⌠âWe do no have an immigration problem. We are multiculturalâ etc., the news of the Paris attacks is hitting the car radios of the people on the highway below and they are going nuts in support of Trump and his defiance of the political, media and academic elites.
I called the Valerie the French reporter and she had just heard the news. All she could say is âI am so shocked ⌠so shocked!!â I said âWhy? You had to know this was coming, you were told a million times â â. At which point she hung up. The next morning I read Ann Coulter in Mediaite: âDonald Trump Was Elected President Tonight.â And I believe he was.
I saw it happen. I watched an almost physical wave of noise and cheering and honking roll up I-95 from as far as I could see south towards DC, to where is disappeared over the horizon to the north, up towards Baltimore, New York and points beyond.