Truck drivers who support former US President Donald Trump have called for a boycott of the city of New York. They want to express their dissatisfaction with a sentence that a New York court had imposed on the ex-president.

The hashtag “Boycott NYC” was picked up on X by over 13,000 people. Trump himself once again lashed out sharply against the public prosecutor's office and the judge and spoke of "hypocrisy" The entire process was part of a “witch hunt” against him ordered by his successor Joe Biden, the 77-year-old Republican claimed last Friday.