President Donald Trump sits in the driver’s seat of a semi-truck as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House, Thursday, March 23, 2017.Official White House Photo by Benjamin Applebaum
The New York Supreme Court's decision, handed down on Friday, met with outrage from Trump, who called it "election interference" and a "repulsive abuse of power." Trump quickly turned to fund-raising off the verdict, but since then, a few truckers have gone viral on social media offering another kind of support: A punitive boycott of hauling loads into New York City.
Popular trucking personality Chicago Ray kicked off the boycott story in earnest, sharing a video on Friday where he said “[Truckers] gonna start refusing loads in New York City starting on Monday... We're tired of you f**king with Trump, OK?”
Ray continued: “Our bosses ain't going to care if we deny the loads. We'll just go somewhere else, all right? You know how f**king hard it is to get into New York City.”
That video made it all the way to Trump himself, who reshared it on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Ray deleted the video by Tuesday morning, but said he continues to refuse hauls to NYC.
"Drivers can make their own decisions based on their families and their careers," he wrote in a second statement. "I worked for a place for 18 years and I quit them in one day and had this job b4 I got to my car.... i ain't the leader of any movement... I'm my own man period."
