Trump rips Seattle mayor for saying protest zone could allow a ‘summer of love’

President Trump on Friday slammed Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan for saying the six-block protest camp in her city, dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” could allow a “summer of love.”

“Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, ‘it is a Summer of Love’. These Liberal Dems don’t have a clue,” Trump tweeted. “The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death. Must end this Seattle takeover now!”

For days, Trump has attacked Durkan and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, both Democrats, for allowing anti-police brutality activists to set up their “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. The zone emerged during nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police.

Activists are demanding that Durkan resign for refusing to abolish the city police department. But she’s sought to play down tension.

When CNN host Chris Cuomo asked the mayor Thursday “how long” the occupation would continue, she said: “I don’t know. We could have a summer of love!”

The Summer of Love was a 1967 youth convergence on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, where leftist politics and opposition to the Vietnam War meshed with music, drug use and sexual liberation.

The CHAZ includes an abandoned police station. Although activists declared the area a police-free zone, officers entered the zone Thursday to access the deserted station, angering some residents.

“Get them the f— out of here!” one shouted. “Who let them in here?” demanded another.

Although the Seattle mayor — and other Democratic mayors, such as Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser — is denounced by activists, she’s also gained significant national exposure returning fire on the president.

“Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker,” Durkan tweeted to Trump on Wednesday.