Anti-Trump Protesters Pepper Sprayed in Washington DC

Slogans like “Nazi scum” were being shouted at people entering the pro-Trump “Deploraball” dinner event.

A New York City Police Dept officer asks anti-Donald Trump protestor Marni Halasa to move as she demonstrates across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower in New York. (Photo: AP)

Protests over the inauguration and presidency of Donald Trump began on Thursday night and the police had to resort to using pepper spray on protestors in Washington.

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the National Press Club where a pro-Trump event billed as Deploraball was taking place, NBC reported. They set off smoke devices in the middle of the crowd and the police had to block the entrance to the dinner.

Slogans like "Nazi scum" were being shouted at people entering the dinner.

Demonstrators even burned a Trump hat and they displayed an inflated elephant, symbol of the Republican party, with the word "racism" on it.

(With inputs from NBC News.)