Supporters of President Donald Trump and those hoping Ukraine-Russia peace will be negotiated between the president and President Vladimir Putin showed up at 11 am at the corner of Seward Highway and Northern Lights Blvd. in Anchorage, at the same time that the peace talks were set to begin on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
About 180 people joined the rally with flags and banners promoting America, Trump, and peace.
In other parts of town, Democrat protests have been waged against peace in Ukraine by those who believe peace can be achieved only through prolonged war and more American spending on the war machine. Signs of protest against Trump’s efforts to bring peace could be seen around the city all week.
At the pro-America rally on Friday, a half dozen marked and unmarked police vehicles were stationed nearby in the Midtown Mall Parking lot. Across the street, a disheveled vagrant encampment littered the corner, a normal scene at the intersection in this era of Anchorage’s vagrant crisis.
A candidate for governor had earlier pulled up a motor home to assist. Bernadette Wilson, a Republican who declared for governor in May, was serving free water, coffee, and donuts, wearing a sweatshirt with an American flag on it.
Meanwhile, at JBER, the meetings had begun, as seen in this video:
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who had a meeting scheduled with Trump while he is in Alaska, commented, “It’s no accident that President Trump picked Alaska for this meeting; Alaska exudes U.S. strength and energy independence.”
In the middle of the protest area, an infiltrator had come earlier and, in chalk, written “86 47” which is a code for those who wish to do harm to the president. The rally participants didn’t even notice it for a long time, but when they did, they doused the offensive phrase with water.
Finally, it was doused with water.
