Expect Gridlock As Donald Trump Leaves NYC

NEW YORK CITY — President Donald Trump is scheduled to leave New York City after a two-night stay at his Trump Tower penthouse and return to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to the White House.

"In the afternoon, President Donald J. Trump will depart New York, NY en route Bedminster, NJ. The President will then sign H.R. 3218, the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act," read the White House's press schedule.

Trump will leave Midtown around 2 p.m. and head to the Wall Street land zone, according to the White House. The president will then board a helicopter, which will take him back to the friendly confines of Trump National Golf Course.

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New Yorkers should expect road closures and traffic in Midtown and Lower Manhattan during the roughly 30-minute trip from Trump Tower to the Wall Street helipad.

During Donald Trump's brief visit to his hometown he drew large protests outside of Trump Tower onboth nights of his stay. New Yorkers lined Fifth Avenue below East 57th Street and chanted "New York hates you!" and "You have blood on your hands!" to greet Trump on Monday night.

On Tuesday, Trump delivered some of the most widely-criticized remarks of his presidency. After a press conference to announce infrastructure reform actions, Trump got in a heated exchange with the press where he walked back a condemnation of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups while unleashing a tirade against the media and "alt-left" protesters who gathered in Charlottesville over the weekend.

Trump reiterated statements that he made during the weekend's deadly Charlottesville rallies that people on "both sides" were to blame for violence.

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