Trump Tower Press Release
PRESS RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Nadina LaSpina (contact info redacted) Morgan Moore (contact info redacted)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, July 26th, 2025
HAPPENING NOW - DISABILITY ACTIVISTS RISK ARREST INSIDE TRUMP TOWER IN NYC ON THE ADA’s 35th ANNIVERSARY
Location: Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022
Details: People with disabilities risk arrest inside Trump Tower on the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in defiance against the Trump administration’s policies and actions that are harming people with disabilities.
The Disability Resistance
35 years ago, on July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by George H. W. Bush. The ADA was a milestone for the modern disability movement, which has been fighting for over half a century to improve the lives of people with all types of disability. Normally, we celebrate on this day. We are NOT celebrating today.
We are inside the Trump Tower because we want everyone to know that, like other marginalized groups in the United States today, we are under attack by Donald Trump and his fascist administration.
We are disability activists who refuse to allow our hard-won rights to be taken away. We refuse to allow our people to be hurt by cruel cuts to vital social programs like Medicaid for the benefit of billionaires. We refuse to allow the laws that we fiercely and tirelessly worked to get passed to be obliterated in the senseless dismantling of the American government and American democracy.
We are activists who have been made stronger by the experience of living with a disability in an ableist world. We are not afraid. We are ready to fight harder than we ever have fought before, and we invite all people of good conscience to join us. In the dying words of one of our leaders, Justin Dart, who was one of the architects of the ADA - We will lead on!