[Photo:  by Victor J. Blue for Bloomberg]

Protesters, this time dressed as swamp creatures, returned to downtown New York where they encamped in front of Goldman Sachs’ headquarters - pledging to stay until Trump’s presidential inauguration on January 20. Their beef: the bank’s influence in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

More than 60 people gathered outside of the building, chanted slogans and waved banners as police officers and bemused office workers looked on. Some participants wore monster masks or laid out sleeping bags on tarps along the wet and frigid sidewalk. [Yes, it’s a cold and dreary day here in New York City.]

“We are here to launch an encampment at Goldman Sachs,” said Jonathan Westin, director of New York Communities for Change, leading the crowd in call and response. The country shouldn’t be run by billionaires and bankers, he said.

The demonstration was organized by New York Communities for Change, which also has sought higher pay for fast-food workers and better living conditions for tenants. The same group had assembled at Goldman’s HQ’s back on January 4, and had even entered the building’s lobby until being ejected.

Westin accused Trump of deceiving voters, saying in an interview that the president-elect isn’t draining the [D.C.] swamp. He also called for Goldman-connected nominees to be blocked.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein told the NYTimes last week that he was pained to some of his executives to the Trump administration. “But the perception that they’ll go to Washington and then favor us is false. The reverse is true. They’ll bend over backwards to avoid that.”