Thousands of people protested against the election of Donald Trump in cities around the US on Wednesday night, in a sign of the deeply divided country he will soon lead.

A multicultural crowd of a few thousand protesters marched 40 blocks to Trump Tower, where garbage trucks surrounded the building where Mr Trump lives, chanting “not my president”, “love trumps hate” and “black lives matter”. Protesters also chanted against Mr Trump’s plans for a wall.

There were also further protests, including in Chicago; Washington; Portland, Oregon; St Paul, Minnesota; New Orleans and Boston. There was a small protest earlier in the day in San Francisco, with a much larger protest in the evening, with hundreds of people marching briskly up Market Street, the city’s main thoroughfare. The group was a broad mix including students, LGBT campaigners and parents with young children. Some chanted “Donald Trump has to go” and its equivalents in Spanish while others walked along in tears. Waiters and kitchen staff stood outside Zuni, one of the city’s best-known California cuisine restaurants, as the parade passed from downtown and by the headquarters of Twitter and Uber towards a gathering point at the Castro district, long a rallying point for gay campaigners.