With the G20 Summit set to begin on Friday, where twenty leaders from some of the world’s most powerful countries will meet, thousands took to the street of Hamburg to protest. There were a number of motives suggested for the demonstrators, with some of them being anti-capitalist, others anti-globalist, and many of them wearing black hoods and masks, symbolizing anarchism.

Protests at international meetings like this are nothing new, with similar demonstrations taking place at nearly every conference like this one, dating back to 1999 when protesters swarmed Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization.

However, the Left once again found a way to spin these protests against Trump. Before Trump even landed in Europe, journalists were predicting Trump to meet massive crowds protesting his arrival. If that was the message of the demonstrators, who turned violent as night fell over Hamburg, they did a very bad job getting it across.

The anti-Trump mantra doesn’t stop, as people take to Twitter and the media claiming that Trump is responsible for the size and violent ways of the crowd. The real reason that so many people showed up to protest, however, is purely a logistical one. Conferences like these usually take place in smaller cities, so as to not draw too much attention, but this one was moved to Hamburg so President Trump could attend. Having the conference in a larger city means more people show up to protest. The aggressiveness of the demonstrators could also be attributed, simply, to the tense climate at the conference, with meetings set to begin between some of the world’s most powerful leaders.

Furthermore, many of the demonstrators are anti-globalist. President Trump, who removed the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership as soon as he stepped in office and has supported protectionist tariffs, has taken significant anti-globalist steps himself. While they might not support Trump, it would make no sense that Trump would be what caused these anti-globalists to come out in such high numbers.

If these riots were in protest of President Trump, then whoever organized them did a really crappy job at spreading that message. None of what is happening in the streets of Germany even hints to being directed at Trump. The Left is very good at getting their message across, so if they were protesting Trump, they would make sure their mission was clear to us all. That is obviously not the case here, and we need to take a step back and acknowledge that.