As Donald Trump spoke to the press in his Rose Backyard on Friday, a low hum may very well be heard from outdoors the White Home grounds.

The president stated the sound was truckers “exhibiting assist” and insisted: “They love their president.”

Actually, the noise, which grew to incorporate the honking of airhorns, was a protest.

In line with a long-haul trucking business website, the Trucker, the protest has been lively for 15 days.

The drivers concerned say they haven’t obtained focused assist in any coronavirus stimulus bundle and would not have ample entry to protecting gear and healthcare.

They’ve additionally voiced severe considerations in regards to the charges they’re getting by means of brokers who join them with folks needing to ship items.

In line with the Washington Submit, “Simply two weeks in the past, President Trump personally prolonged his gratitude to truckers, welcoming representatives of the business to the White Home and calling truckers ‘the foot troopers’ within the struggle towards the novel coronavirus.”

However the paper quoted Santiago, “a 21-year veteran of the business from New Jersey”, as saying: “The American truck driver wants assist, and we’d like it now. That is our misery name to our commander in chief to handle the issues we face. He has referred to as us heroes – his heroes want his assist now.”

On Wednesday, the White Home chief of employees, Mark Meadows, met the protesters for almost 15 minutes, the Trucker reported. This, the web site stated, gave some sufficient hope to return to work, although it added that many did so just because they might not afford extra unpaid go away.

The Trucker reported that Meadows met Michael Landis, founder and chief govt of the US Transportation Alliance, who acted as a spokesman.

Meadows “supplied his private e-mail and promised that if Landis put collectively a listing of priorities and [sent] it to him, Meadows [would] act”, the web site reported. “The cautious Landis, who has personally heard years of guarantees of motion from the Federal Motor Service Security Administration (FMCSA) and others in Washington, responded, ‘We’d like to listen to that from the president.’”

Meadows reportedly insisted he was “talking on behalf of the president of the US”.