Things got a bit surreal at the No Kings rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, with MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff at one point interviewing an attendee in a Bear costume and another in a Unicorn outfit back-to-back live on air.
“I’ve never interviewed a unicorn live on MSNBC,” Soboroff joked, while laughing as he pulled the unicorn in for a Q-and-A.
“Well, there’s always a first time for everything,” the man in the unicorn outfit told him.
The unicorn said there was a good reason for the goofball outfit, though — he wanted to grab President Donald Trump’s attention.
“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president. Because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power, and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.”
Soboroff, a moment later, said “you’re having fun, but you’re taking this very seriously.”
The unicorn said “a few tears come out now and then,” because he is sad to know “people are hiding in [their] homes, terrified that their families are broken” because of federal immigration officers, apparently.
And right before talking to the unicorn, Soboroff talked to a woman in a full bear outfit. The woman inside, Paula, said “water breaks are important” and that she had a little fan inside to help her beat the SoCal heat.
“I’m not a radical. I’m just here to promote democracy and no kings,” Paula the Bear told Soboroff, after he asked if she was part of Antifa or a “radical.”
“Not Antifa inside the bear,” Soboroff reported back to MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle.
Later, after wrapping his interview with the unicorn, Soboroff said it was “not a bad strategy” to dress ridiculously in order to protest the president.
>Ruhle added it looked like a “profound” event. The LA protest is among a number of others in major cities across the U.S. on Saturday.
In related news, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped Trump, as well as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, at the Washington, D.C. rally, and MSNBC reported the New York City protest was bigger than the first rally in June.<
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