Michael Moore takes the audience of his Broadway show - including Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Wilde - to protest at Trump Tower after he blamed 'both sides' for Charlottesville violence
- Crowds gathered outside the tower on Tuesday night, following an earlier protest that was held on Monday
- Some held signs complaining about his recent comments about the Charlottesville, Va. violence
- Earlier Tuesday, Trump claimed that 'both sides' were to blame for an alleged murder by a white supremacist
- Michael Moore also took the audience of his Broadway show 'The Terms of My Surrender' to the protest
- But the bulk of the group gathered as a response to Texas's threat to legally challenge DACA legislation
- DACA is an Obama-era legislation that allows undocumented people brought to the US as children to stay
- Texas has demanded Trump announce a phasing-out of the program by September 5 or it will go to court
- Crowds held up signs demanding that Trump stand up and stop the repeal from happening
- Trump returned to his tower on Monday night for the first time since he was inaugurated as president
Michael Moore joined in the protests against Donald Trump on Tuesday night - and took the audience of his Broadway show to the party with him.
At the close of his show, The Terms of My Surrender, he invited the audience aboard two double-decker buses - paid for by the production - to join the protests at Trump Tower.
On arrival, he announced: 'We are here to perform a citizens arrest - well there's lots of police there, maybe they'll do it for us.'
He was then joined by actor Mark Ruffalo - best known as the Incredible Hulk's alter-ego Bruce Banner - who ranted that Trump has 'allowed white supremacists, he's allowed the KKK, he's allowed Nazis to show their ugly face.
'And we're here to show him that there's a cost for that, Americans have died for that.'
He then commanded the crowd to say the name of say the name of the woman allegedly run down by a white supremacist in Charlottesville on Saturday: 'Heather Heyer! Heather Heyer!'
Incredible Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo (left) joined Michael Moore (right) at the Trump Tower protests on Tuesday night. Moore had taken the audience of his Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender to the protests on two double-decker buses
Actresses Marissa Tomei (left, with Fisher Stevens) and Olivia Wilde (right) also joined the group, and spoke out against Trump
Moore (seen holding a candle) and his followers were incensed after Trump said on Tuesday that 'both sides' were to blame for a white supremacist allegedly running down a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday
Moore took the audience from his show to the protest on two open-topped tour buses, and gave them #Resist placards. Ruffalo was present for that part of the trip, waving to people before disembarking and making his speech
Trump had caused controversy earlier in the day by doubling down on his claims that 'both sides' were to blame to the violence that led to Heyer's death.
Actresses Olivia Wilde and Zoe Kazan also joined the group, with Kazan demanding an end to 'white supremacy in the White House' and the cessation of 'Nazi rhetoric in 2017.'
They arrived several hours into the protests, which had begun as crowds gathered in the early evening around Trump Tower in order to attack the president's leadership.
Many in the crowd objected to Trump's remarks about Charlottesville, but the bulk of the protesters had gathered to demand Trump stand up to Texas' planned legal challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) legislation.
That Obama-era policy helps undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children, but Texas says it will attack DACA in court unless Trump announces a phase-out program by September 5.
Holding signs with messages like 'Undocumented, unafraid, unapologetic' and 'They stay, you go,' they alternately reprimanded Trump for his heavy-handed immigration policies and demanded he stop Texas in its tracks.
Trump had some supporters among the crowd, too - although they were vastly outnumbered in the liberal city.
The president returned to his beloved tower late on Monday night - the first time he's set foot in the building since he was elected.
Protesters gathered outside Trump Tower on New York's busy Fifth Avenue Tuesday afternoon to protest a potential attack on Obama's DACA legislation by Texas. The state said it wanted Trump to announce a phase out or it would take DACA to court
Some protesters identified themselves as immigrants - undocumented or otherwise - while others were citizens who vowed to take their side
While many protesters were there to represent immigration issues, some - such as the woman in the center of this image - made allusions to fascism, after Trump's equivocation over an alleged murder by a white supremacist on Saturday
On Tuesday Trump doubled down on his previous remark about the violence seen in Charlottesville, Virginia being due to antifascists and white supremacists alike. This man is holding a sign that reads 'Free Photo With Trump!'
A young man holds a sign reading 'We are all immigrants' while someone behind him holds another that reads 'No! In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America'
Protesters lined both sides of the street. Some signs read 'Stop criminalizing immigration' while others appeared to be written in Korean and other languages
At least one person (pictured) was seen being arrested during the rally. Trump blamed the Charlottesville violence, which saw one woman killed and 19 injured when a white supremacist allegedly drove into a crowd, on 'both sides'
The woman was then seen grimacing as she was bundled into a police van by NYPD officers. Trump had entered his tower on Monday by going in a side entrance, avoiding protesters at the front of the building on Fifth Avenue
Trump has become a figure of much dislike and derision by those who are opposed to him and his actions. There is fear that DACA - and the protections it affords - is doomed
There were also more general attacks on Trump at the protest, including this one that made fun of his alleged connections with Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia
Trump is seen here inside Trump Tower, where he held a press conference earlier in the day in which he made the remarks about Charlottesville that led to rebukes from both Democrats and Republicans - and even Fox News anchors
Obama's proposed amnesty on deporting parents of undocumented immigrant children, termed DAPA, was ruled illegal in 2014 after a challenge by Texas, but nobody has threatened to mount a challenge on DACA until now, The Washington Times wrote.
If Texas wins, then protections on Obama's so-called Dreamers - who are presently allowed to stay in the US to pursue education - will be lifted, allowing them to be deported.
Pro-DACA lawyers are calling on Trump to use his power to stop Texas from mounting the challenge.
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That's certainly the attitude that many at the demonstration seemed to share. But many others seemed to be there mostly to vent their anger at Trump's bold immigration moves.
He has empowered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, shifting the focus from new and criminal undocumented immigrants to any undocumented people at all - leading to raids and deportation. He has also tried to squeeze cities he identifies as sanctuary cities for immigrants.
That has infuriated some who say only violent criminal immigrants should be deported.
People held up signs reading 'New Yorkers for Immigrant Justice!' and 'I pledge to protect immigrant New York' as they chanted and punched the air
Placards showing Trump as a figure of hatred and spite were common throughout the rally - as were other placards promising to promote love
Trump has empowered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, shifting the focus from new and criminal undocumented immigrants to any undocumented people at all - leading to raids and deportation
Trump did have some support in the form of counter-protesters - although they were rather fewer in number than the anti-Trump demonstrators
This man holds two signs, one in English reading 'Jews for Trump' and another in Hebrew, which has 'Trump' at the top, with 'Make America Great Again' underneath
This pro-Trump protester was seen taking an anti-Trump demonstrator to task as they walked down Fifth Avenue
![The woman on the left can be seen carrying a Trump/Pence poster that has been amended to say '2020' at the top and bottom, with a 'Re-elect Trump' pin on it. The man on the left has a sign that reads 'Trump divne [sic] intervention god man'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/06/4348D6CA00000578-4794344-The_woman_on_the_left_can_be_seen_carrying_a_Trump_Pence_poster_-a-4_1502860657095.jpg)
The woman on the left can be seen carrying a Trump/Pence poster that has been amended to say '2020' at the top and bottom, with a 'Re-elect Trump' pin on it. The man on the left has a sign that reads 'Trump divne [sic] intervention god man'
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