Politics

Photos: New Hampshire’s Trump boat parade defies description

Warning: NSFW language, sort of.

Hundreds of boaters paraded on Lake Winnipesaukee in Laconia, New Hampshire, on Saturday to support President Donald Trump for re-election. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images

By Peter Chianca

August 23, 2020

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What is it about boaters and Donald Trump?

Last week more than 1,000 supporters of the president took out their crafts in Clearwater, Florida, in an attempt to break the world record for largest boat parade; the Guinness Book is still tallying that one up.

And closer to home, an impressive flotilla took to New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee Saturday, in the shadow of Laconia Motorcycle Week, to rally for Trump’s re-election over challenger Joe Biden this November. (And even closer still, Newburyport got into the act with well over 50 Trump-supporting boaters coming out Saturday as well.)

Judging from these shots of the Lake Winnipesaukee parade by AFP photographer Joseph Prezioso, these people didn’t phone it in. Take a look: