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On Jan. 28, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump staged a Keep America Great rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center in New Jersey: The following day, photographs circulated via social media purporting to show piles of trash and debris supposedly left behind in the convention center's parking lot by selfish supporters [who] trashed everything in sight: These photographs are genuine and accurately described, as reported by multiple local news outlets that published similar (and identical) pictures. NJ.com, for example, noted that while an adjacent park had been cleaned up by the following morning, the convention center's parking lot had not: The Cherry Hill Courier-Post reported that Wildwood's mayor was seeking reimbursement from the Trump campaign for services provided by the city in connection with the rally, including the removal of tons of trash. However, many attendees noted on the Wildwood Boardwalk's official Facebook page that much of the refuse was left behind not because selfish [Trump] supporters trashed everything in site, but because they had little alternative: They were not permitted to take their chairs and other items inside the facility, they were not allowed to go back to their cars to drop their items off before entering, they were not able to return to the area after the rally to claim items they left behind, and the number of available trash receptacles available outside the center was limited by Secret Service precautions. In any event, the area was cleaned up fairly quickly, and leftover chairs and blankets were donated to local homeless shelters, according to this video posted to Facebook the day after the rally:
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