The speakers focused on changes the media underwent during the 2016 presidential campaign. Reid said it's now an environment of “constant chaos,” in which a consistent inflow of new scandals and stories distracts journalists from stories they would rather cover.

Nine professors at Penn joined hundreds of educators across the country to sign an open letter saying that Carson is “completely unqualified to promote appropriate solutions to the pressing housing and urban development needs facing our country.”

Gutmann's speech came during a Faculty Senate protest on College Green over Trump's controversial order, which temporarily banned immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

In the statement, Reverend Jenkins expressed concern for how the travel ban will affect American universities and international students.

From his appointment of human-caused climate change skeptics to his Cabinet nominees, to his 2012 tweet defining climate change as a Chinese hoax, climate science has proven a contentious issue for Trump.

By 3:00 p.m., the airport terminal was filled with hundreds of protestors, including several Penn students, chanting, "No wall, no registry, f**k white supremacy,” and “No hate, no fear immigrants are welcome here.”

The statement did not mention President Donald Trump by name, in keeping with Penn's pattern of declining to acknowledge their most famous alumnus even as he has assumed the nation's highest office. 

In his speech, Vice President Mike Pence pledged to defund national organizations that sponsor abortions, such as Planned Parenthood, and vowed that Trump would appoint a pro-life nominee to fill the vacancy left by late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

“None of us have six degrees of separation anymore from the criminal justice system,” Marie Gottschalk said. “It’s metastasizing into our wider democracy and questioning the legitimacy of democracy in the United States.”

"This is not a dictatorship. This is a democracy. We will take avail of every opportunity we have to protect our citizens and protect our people who are living in our city,” the first-term mayor said, according to 6abc.

"This is the most unpredictable and ominous climate for the City of Philadelphia I have seen in my 17 years in office," Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke said in the press release.

Many protestors held signs denouncing the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Bob Deleon, who carried a poster that read 'Obamacare saved my father', said that the affordability of health insurance under Obamacare helped his father get the care he needed when he had a heart attack in 2015. 

The draft of the order demands a 30-day halt on immigration from several countries that have already been labelled as linked to terrorism under various laws, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. 

“This is not a dictatorship,” Kenney said, according to 6abc. “This is a democracy. We will take avail of every opportunity we have to protect our citizens and protect our people who are living in our city.”

“We need to come together to undo the isolation of the Trump campaign,” College freshman Lilly Balla said. “You can’t ignore 3 million people.”

As the first Penn graduate elected as the President sets up shop in the Oval Office, the brief career at the University of the only other Penn-affiliated President, William Henry Harrison, resurfaces.

“It was hysterical to see him on CNN and all the news networks, because there’s your friend running for president,” Tony Altimore said.