Around 900,000 people are due to attend the incoming 45th President’s inauguration on Friday but protesters have been caught discussing how to plunge the event into chaos – starting with a disco due to be held the night before.
On Thursday, Mr Trump is due to hold Deploraball – a disco at D.C.’s National Press Club near the White House in Washington.
But liberal protesters, known as the DC Anti-Facist Coalition, have been caught on camera plotting to wreck the event by undercover investigator group, Project Veritas.
The meeting, captured on a hidden camera, was held at Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington DC.
Brainstorming ideas, the protesters discuss smuggling butyric acid – better known as stink bombs – into the ceremony, which they believe would force
Trump’s security to close down proceedings.
One of the protesters describes stink bombs as “very efficient”, “very smelly” and adds that each one “lasts a long time”.
They also discuss “doing everything we can to try and stop people from being able to access the inauguration” including adding “blockades” to checkpoints leading into security zones and public transportation access points.
Another protester discusses trying to get fire-protection sprinklers turned on inside the building.
“The added benefit is everybody is going to walk outside in the freezing cold,” he says.
One protester says in the clip: “It would be really interesting if we could stop them having the DeploraBall at all.”
Project Veritas notified the FBI, Secret Service and DC Metro Police of the content of the video.
The organisers of Deploraball released a statement on Sunday, which read: “We’ve hired a professional security team to work at the event. We did this through the National Press Club, which is experienced with high security events.”