SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Former President Donald Trump will attend a fundraiser in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood Thursday, and will be met with supporters and protesters.
The political news outlet Puck News obtained an invitation to Trump’s Pacific Heights event.
According to the invitation, tech billionaire David Sacks and his wife are hosting the event with venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya. Fundraiser tickets range in price from $50,000 to $500,000.
Mindy Pechenuk, a candidate running for Oakland City Council, is part of a group of Trump supporters organizing a rally to greet him at San Francisco’s Marina Green Thursday afternoon. Presidents tend to arrive there in Marine One, though Trump is actually scheduled to be at a town hall in Phoenix at the time.
“This is a rally, just a group of us, men and women, citizens, we the people wanted to greet Trump, Donald Trump, coming to San Francisco and let him know our love is there, our support is there,” Pechenuk said.
VIDEO: 33-foot-tall ‘Trump Chicken’ resurrected to greet Donald Trump during SF campaign fundraiser visit
Former President Donald Trump will be in San Francisco on Thursday for a fundraiser hosted by tech billionaires — and a 33-foot-tall bird lookalike from his opponents will greet him.
On the other side, the organizers behind the inflatable “Trump Chicken” are bringing the bird out of retirement for Thursday’s event.
Back in 2018, the chicken circled Alcatraz wearing a prison shirt.
Organizers of the anti-Trump inflatable are planning to set sail with the bird from Fisherman’s Wharf on Thursday, passing by Alcatraz and the Marina Green.
Neighbor Armand Domalewski lives in Pacific Heights and is planning a protest when the former President is there. He says 50 people said they will show up and they’re expecting that number to grow.
“Our neighborhood is extremely pro-choice. Our community stands for freedom, women’s rights,” Domalewski said. “They love America, and they love reproductive rights and Trump stands against all of that. And so the fact that this man is in our community and raising money here. I don’t want people to think that we support that. I want him to know that he’s not welcome here.”
This Bay Area fundraiser comes less than a week after being convicted of 34 charges by a New York City jury in the “hush money” trial.
Trump’s 2016 visit to Bay Area
Trump’s visit to the city comes despite the city’s voter base being primarily blue.
Trump had nine percent of the vote in San Francisco during the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.
Many remember Trump’s trek through fencing and dirt to get into the back entrance of a Burlingame hotel while trying to avoid protesters during a 2016 campaign stop on the Peninsula.
“We went under a fence and through a fence and oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border actually,” Trump said during his campaign stop in April of 2016.
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