PITTSBURGH On Tuesday evening, Tracy Baton stood on the steps of the Sixth Presbyterian Church the same church where Mr. Rogers worshipped for many years and spoke to a crowd of thousands.

When Mr. Rogers came to Pittsburgh in the 50s, he found a neighborhood full of values, full of Jewish values, and he took them forward and shared them with the world, she said as the sun set over Squirrel Hill, the place she was raised. Pittsburgh values matter everywhere now.

Those who would insert themselves on a national stage, into a city in mourning, before the dead are buried, is unacceptable, she continued. Those that would limit our neighbors vote, that would foment hate against the Jewish community, Muslim community, people of color, LGBTQ people, as well as wage a war on womens bodies, are not welcome here!

The crowd cheered on Baton, director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Womens March on Washington. They all knew whom she was referring to: About an hour earlier and only a few blocks away, President Donald Trump s motorcade had left the synagogue where a white supremacist slaughtered 11 people Saturday. It was part of Trumps three-hour photo-op in a grieving city where most of the residents, it seemed, had never wanted him to come at all.