VIDEO: U. Chicago students hold ‘primal scream,” burn Trump items post-election

Early Wednesday morning approximately 300 University of Chicago students gathered at the Quad to engage in a collective “primal scream” and light aflame Donald Trump campaign paraphernalia.

“Around midnight several students lit a Trump banner on fire at the cheers and encouragement of the crowd, and chants of “fuck trump” [sic] returned in choruses,” The Chicago Maroon reports. “On the fringes a student played a mournful national anthem on his trumpet.”

Some students eventually showed up with “a large speaker” on which to play the song “Fuck Trump.”

Student Andrew Xue said the scream “was the greatest display of collective effervescence [he’d] ever seen.”

From the article:

Students marched to the center of the main quadrangle, screaming and yelling along the way and with new fury when they reached the gathering.

At 12:15 a.m. the crowd screamed again, in a more unified effort that lasted almost a minute.

UCPD did not report to the scene, though a security guard kept watch over the gathering.

“Trump 2020” was scribbled in chalk at several places on the quad last night. By Wednesday, the pro-Trump messages had been crossed out or written over.

Students at many schools in the country demonstrated against Donald Trump last night. The Yale Daily News reported that Yale students also organized a “primal scream.”