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 The 58-year-old said the first act’s final scene — in which an anti-Semitic pogrom disrupts a Jewish wedding — reminded him of Trump’s immigration policies, which call for mass deportations and a wall along the U.S. southern border. “Instantly it was like, ‘Oh my God, what did you do?’ ” said Derlunas, who acknowledged he had been drinking heavily before the show. “The thing that I can’t stand is Trump spreading hatred, and what did I do? I spread hatred.” 
 
 Derlunas’ outburst came during the intermission of the show at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday evening. He was escorted from the theater’s balcony by security, and police issued him a stop ticket — less serious than a citation. “The next thing I expected to hear was gunshots, frankly,” said Rich Scherr, who filmed the commotion from below as Derlunas’s balcony neighbors appeared to confront him. “I was trying to compare Trump to Hitler because he plays into the fears of the people, and, and, and it just came out wrong,” Anthony Derlunas II told WBAL-TV from his front porch, where several reporters tracked him down Friday — two days after police removed him from his balcony seat at the Hippodrome Theatre. “I realize now that it was so hurtful in how it came out anti-Semitic,” Derlunas said in a shaky voice. “That didn’t help my thinking one bit.” 
 
 Since the outburst, Derlunas said “the hate coming back has been unbelievable” and affected his family. The Sun reported that he had phoned the theater and the Baltimore Jewish Council to apologize and was trying to reach local rabbis to do the same. “I’m so disgusted and upset with myself for doing what I did.” 
 
 He’s been trying to make amends. "I would ban me too if I was in their position,” Derlunas told the Sun on Friday, after the Anti-Defamation League demanded his prosecution for what the group called an “anti-Semitic outburst.” 
 
 In his doorstep interviews, Derlunas tried to convince any skeptics that espousing bigotry has been the opposite of his intent.
– File another one under Things That Seem Like a Good Idea While You're Drunk: Anthony Derlunas caused a stir Wednesday night in a Baltimore theater when he screamed "Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!" during intermission of a performance of Fiddler on the Roof—apparently inspired by the president's immigration policies and several glasses of wine, reports the Washington Post. "That didn't help my thinking one bit," says Derlunas, who's eating no small amount of crow over what he says was an ill-conceived protest of aforementioned policies. "The thing that I can’t stand is Trump spreading hatred, and what did I do? I spread hatred," the 58-year-old told the Baltimore Sun. Fellow patrons at the Hippodrome weren't only offended (the play deals with the persecution of a Jewish family), they were frightened: "People started running," says an audience member. "I’ll be honest, I was waiting to hear a gunshot." Security escorted Derlunas out and police issued him a stop ticket. The Hippodrome, however, issued him a lifetime ban, which Derlunas doesn't have a problem with. "I would ban me too if I was in their position," he says.