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How Filmmaker and Street Photographer Jay Giampietro Saw Manhattan’s MAGA Midterms

While many New Yorkers celebrated Democrats retaking the House, Trump stalwart were having their own party at Fox News HQ.

8:01 AM EST on November 7, 2018

The streets were mild on Election Night 2018, and the lack of anxious Democrat screen watchers in Times Square forced me to spend most of my time a few blocks east, in the holding pen outside of the Fox News studio.

With jittery spotlights careening between the clouds and the tall buildings on 6th Avenue, security personnel nearly outnumbered the shallow crowd, who were waiting for something to cheer about as they jockeyed for position in the background of the anchor desk inside the building in front of them. MAGA hats were in surprisingly short supply and there was a tired energy to the trolling routine of the few costumed Trump supporters wandering around the pen.

I find Trump’s America to be extremely tweaked, overwrought, slyly amusing and grotesque. Hopefully these images reflect that.

Abe voted
Tea party
Opinion done right
Alien victims
Head games
Patriot actor
Hillary named him
Worst starburst
Too many stripes

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