A man screaming “Donald Trump, where are you!” turned Times Square into an open-air peep show Thursday morning ambling to the top of the red staircase in Duffy Square completely naked, putting on a bizarre one-hour show, and then jumping off.
Witnesses first spotted the man on 47th Street near Rockefeller Center before he took off west toward Times Square and climbed to the top of the TKTS booth at Seventh Avenue at about 8 a.m., shouting obscenities.
[UPDATES] Naked Man Taunts Cops In Times Square, Jumps Off TKTS Roof https://t.co/2y96hskd8l pic.twitter.com/SyPR13epAC
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The man demanded a meeting with GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, who has a scheduled appearance in New Hampshire later today.
“Donald Trump, where are you, Donald Trump, where the f– are you?!” he shouted from a ledge on top of the stairs, 16 feet above the Times Square pavement.
Cops blocked off rush-hour traffic in hopes of talking the man down, to no avail as of 9 a.m.
UPDATE: One witness says naked man taunting Times Square cops was shouting “NO NO NO TRUMP!” https://t.co/2y96hskd8l pic.twitter.com/ByoZbeDeKd
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Although the handsome 20-something wore no clothes, he appeared to be a bit of a style maven, screaming out: “I love fashion, it’s taught me so much!”
He also dropped the names of two iconic fashion photographers.
“I love you, Bruce Weber,” the man shouted. “I love you, Mario Testino.”
The man also proclaimed he’s a virgin and loves his mom.
As police tried to talk him down, the man blew kisses to the crowd, performed a chicken dance and crudely taunted officers — grabbing his privates and shaking his backside at New York’s Finest.
At one point he spit in the faces of stone-faced police who kept their cool trying to help the troubled man.
Police quickly blew up a giant airbag below in case the man decided to jump from the 16-foot-tall staircase popular with tourists.
He did at around 9:10 a.m. His condition was unclear.
Hundreds of morning commuters and tourists jammed into Times Square, whipping out their mobile phones to take video of the incident.
