Trump protests heat up throughout the US over the president's controversial travel ban and orders on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines

  • Demonstrators gathered this weekend in several major cities
  • A pro-Trump protest took place on Sunday in Manhattan 
  • On the West Coast, thousands of marchers took to the streets in LA to demonstrate against Trump's order fast-tracking oil pipelines 

By Jordan Gass-Poore for Dailymail.com and Afp

Published: 17:25 EST, 5 February 2017 | Updated: 17:40 EST, 5 February 2017

Protests for and against President Donald Trump's policies continued this weekend in several major US cities.

Demonstrators gathered in Denver, Houston, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, St Louis and Washington. 

A protest also took place in West Palm Beach, Florida, close to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, where he spent the weekend.

People protested for a variety of reasons. 

Some voiced objection to the president's proposed wall between the US and Mexico border.

The gatherings took place one day after a federal judge issued a temporary stay on the President's immigration ban. 

Supporters of US President Donald Trump yell at anti-Trump protesters at a rally near Trump Tower in Fifth Avenue on Sunday in New York

Anti-Trump protesters shout at supporters of US President Donald Trump in Manhattan

In other places, people spoke in support of Trump and his administration's policies.  

On Sunday, passionate Trump supporters held a rally outside Trump Tower in Manhattan - one of the few held in the president's largely Democratic hometown since he took office on January 20.

Demonstrators urged their fellow Americans to give the new president a chance, and they backed his controversial travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

A big white banner they unfurled read, 'Welcome the Trump Era!'

It didn't take long for a dozen or so counter-demonstrators to descend on the scene - Trump won only 18 percent of the city's votes. 

US President Donald Trump's New York supporters were uncowed

Police kept the two groups apart.

The pro-Trump group wore his red "Make America Great Again" campaign hats, carried US flags and chanted "USA! USA!'

Some wore Star of David buttons and carried signs in Hebrew and in English, one of which said: 'President Trump Mazel Tov You're Doing It Your Way."

Demonstrators on both sides competed to make their message heard. 'No ban, no wall, refugees are welcome here', his opponents shouted in a sing-song chant.

But Cindy Grosz, a Trump supporter and rally co-organizer, said Americans should give the new president a chance.

'He's been in office less than three weeks. He's entitled to have a fair shot and to run the government the way he wants to', Grosz said.

Demonstrators march to the Federal Building in protest against Trump's executive order fast-tracking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, in LA on Sunday

Opponents say the proposed $3.8billion Dakota Access pipeline threatens the water supply and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Work on the Dakota Access pipeline is stalled due to a dispute over whether the company Energy Transfer Partners has permission to lay pipe under a reservoir in North Dakota that is the source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe 

Sunday's rally paled next to the huge anti-Trump marches and rallies that have sprung up almost spontaneously across the country. 

Thousands of marchers took to the streets in LA to demonstrate against Trump's executive order fast-tracking the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. 

Protesters hoisting signs and chanting slogans gathered Sunday near Pershing Square and began marching about a mile for a rally at the Edward Roybal Federal Building.

Police say the gathering is peaceful and no disruptions or arrests have been reported

Kristen Dorsey joins demonstrators marching to the Los Angeles Federal Building

'Jack' the dog joins demonstrators in Los Angeles

Police say the gathering is peaceful and no disruptions or arrests have been reported. 

Opponents say the proposed $3.8billion Dakota Access pipeline threatens the water supply and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The 1,200-mile pipeline would transport North Dakota oil to Illinois.  

Trump said he wants to move forward with Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipeline, which would connect Canada's tar sands with Gulf Coast refineries. 

'I haven’t seen this kind of thing before and I’ve been involved in protests since the ‘70s', Karen Pomer of Labor for Standing Rock, one of the groups that participated in the demonstration, told the Los Angeles Times. 

Labor for Standing Rock includes some union workers who formerly worked on the Dakota Access pipeline.

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