jjA tipster sends the following anecdote: 

Today I got off the subway at Columbus Circle to see a crowd gathering beneath the globe in front of the Trump tower. A man was on top of the globe, wearing rollerblades. More and more police came, and an ambulance with paramedics and a stretcher. After about ten minutes, the man reached in his messenger bag and started throwing confetti.  He then climbed down from the globe and the police took it from there…