The protesters that turned out for President Donald Trump’s Austin visit Sunday were kept on the margins, held to the sidewalks of Cesar Chavez Street by dozens of Austin police officers as the president was expected.

And when the motorcade roared through downtown, surrounded by a brigade of motorcycle-mounted officers, both cheers and jeers erupted from the small crowd that gathered around the Red River Street intersection.

"I was expecting a lot more of the GOP side, because we outnumbered them last time," said Zachary Taylor, who counts himself as one the few native Austinites that vote Republican.

Sunday’s demonstration, centered around Trump’s visit and speech at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, comes closely following the president’s November visit, when he toured a computer manufacturing plant in Austin with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

That occasion was the first time Taylor hoisted pro-Trump signs.

"I starting doing this because I feel that people have gotten unpatriotic and anti-American over the last 3 years of his presidency," he said. "And I’m kind of tired of it. I’m coming out here just to show that there are still patriots and supporters of the president."

But majority of Sunday’s demonstrators were not the president’s red-hatted supporters and their chants of "lock him up!" battled those of "four more years!"

Mike Demarsh, an Austin resident of more than 25 years, held a sign with a picture showing the president eat a steak doused in ketchup.

"I wanted to speak in a language that I think farmers and ranchers could understand, and showing that anyone who likes their steak well done and puts ketchup on it is exercising extremely poor judgement at best," Demarsh said.

Demarsh felt that his vote had little weight in a heavily red state like Texas; demonstrating publicly was the only way he knew to exercise his political voice, although he recognized it as ineffective.

"I’m out here to have a good time. I’m going to stand out here and watch the Trump people, because they’re the most interesting crowd. But is this going to change their mind? No. They’re set in their ways."

"I’m in it for the people watching as much as anything else," he said.

William Finch’s homemade sign read "You’re fired!" in a large hand-drawn font.

He expected to see more people turn out on Sunday, he said, but still felt that protesting was an effective way to enact his political voice. After reciting a catalogue of grievances concerning the president’s foreign policy actions, he emphasized the importance of Trump’s imminent impeachment trial.

"I just want to see a free and fair trial that does not cover up anything," he said.