President Trump arrived Monday night at his New York home for the first time since his inauguration as a throng of protesters line the street.

The president's motorcade pulled up to Trump Tower while avoiding the protesters, who chanted "Shame, shame, shame'' while awaiting him.

Thousands of protesters had lined nearby blocks of Manhattan's Fifth Ave. to await him, along with a group of supporters numbering in the dozens.

The protesters carried signs with such messages as "impeach'' and "stop the hate, stop the lies.'' A smaller group of supporters said "God bless President Trump.''

Police have stationed sand-filled sanitation trucks as barriers around the building and layers of metal police barricades around the main entrance.

Expect a heightened police presence in Midtown for the next few days while the president is in the city. He is expected to leave Wednesday.

The president was expected in the city Sunday but changed his itinerary.

The city police department said this visit will cost them $300,000 per day.

There are a number of street closures to look out for while Trump is in town.

58th St. from 6th to Madison Avenues, and 55th St. from 5th to Madison Avenues, are shut down.

56th St. from 6th to 5th Avenues will have managed access to vehicular traffic.

While in town, Trump is in full damage control mode.

After receiving heavy criticism, the president Monday afternoon finally explicitly condemned the white supremacists whose march in Virginia on Saturday touched off deadly violence. 

Trump read from a teleprompter and first touted the stock market before he delivered what many thought he should have said two days earlier.

"Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," Trump said Monday in Washington.

Many officials had criticized the president for claiming that hatred has been "on many sides."

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides," Trump said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. "This has been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama — this has been going on for a long, long time."

Trump spoke after he discussed the race-fueled violence with the FBI and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation, and the attorney general called it an act of domestic terrorism — two words that the president did not use in his own speech.

"We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal," Trump said Monday. "We are equal in the eyes of our Creator, we are equal under the law, and we are equal under our Constitution."

In Trump's campaign, the Republican drew unsolicited support from white separatists. In return, he is thought to have at least sent a message that he would critique them less fervently than expected.

For example, he did not immediately distance himself from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in February 2016.

But Monday, he did quickly criticize a pharmaceutical executive. Ken Frazier of Merck had resigned from a presidential advisory board, saying it was a message that Americans must clearly reject hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy.

The president responded on Twitter:

There are different ways the White House gets its message out, but a longstanding question has been which message most accurately reflects the president's thinking. Observers believe a personal tweet is more sincere than a speech from a teleprompter.