One Springfield, Illinois, woman’s silent protest at a Donald Trump rally is making a lot of noise.
The woman, who sat right behind the GOP frontrunner during his appearance at the Prairie Capital Convention Center, was clearly more interested in the book she was reading – and the Internet took notice.
Johari Osayi Idusuyi quickly became the newest trending topic, but despite what people may think, she claims she wasn’t trying to make a statement.
"I'm genuinely not interested in him as a person, but if you have the chance to see a presidential candidate, why not?" she said, according to local media outlet WICS.
She said she arrived with friends around 5 p.m. and was coincidentally seated right behind Trump. She noted “It wasn’t conniving.”
But after seeing a group of protesters being thrown and what she described as bullying, Idusuyi simply lost interest in the event – that’s when she took out a book.
"Some a mix of educated and uneducated, everyone on the spectrum cheering for such ignorance and that's when I was just taken a back and that's when my energy had shifted," she said.
The book she was reading is apparently called “Citizen,” and it contains a series of poems about race in America. Idusuyi said although her protest wasn’t intentional, she hopes at least some Trump supporters will give the book a read and learn something.
"I came here, yes, to observe a man that I already had low expectations for, but I thought maybe he could change my mind. Maybe it was just a media thing and I'm judging too fast based on what the media says and I was wrong, I wasn't. He was exactly what I expected him to be and his supporters are exactly what I expected them to be," said Idusuyi.
