--- title: Woman Who Flipped off Trump Elected to Virginia County Board description: Juli Briskman, who went viral for giving the President's motorcade the finger, won a seat on the Loudoun County board of supervisors canonical: https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-06T14:48:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:52:29.486Z article:section: Politics og:title: Woman Who Lost Job After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Just Won An Election in Virginia og:description: Juli Briskman, who ran as a Democrat, defeated an eight-year incumbent og:url: https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fc0eb3c6561c770/698a055e8fd2ee31bb3605e0/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-virginia-election.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-ELECTION-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Who Lost Job After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Just Won An Election in Virginia twitter:description: Juli Briskman, who ran as a Democrat, defeated an eight-year incumbent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fc0eb3c6561c770/698a055e8fd2ee31bb3605e0/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-virginia-election.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Who Lost Job After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Wins Election in Virginia > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Woman Fired Over Photo Flipping Off President Trump's Motorcade Files Suit [Watch (HLS stream): Woman Fired Over Photo Flipping Off President Trump's Motorcade Files Suit](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GpzLv99K.m3u8) (0:40)  _Published 2018-04-05. The woman photographed flipping off President Trump’s motorcade has filed a lawsuit, after being fired from her job because of the photo._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 6, 2019 2:48 PM UTC  Juli Briskman shows her middle finger as a motorcade with US President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia. Juli Briskman shows her middle finger as a motorcade with US President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia. Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 6, 2019 2:48 PM UTC The woman who lost her job after [famously flipping off President Trump’s motorcade](https://time.com/5025916/juli-briskman-gofundme-trump/) has won a seat on a county board of supervisors in Virginia. Juli Briskman, a former government contractor, went viral in 2017 when she was photographed giving Trump’s motorcade the middle finger while cycling by him in Virginia. Though the photo of Briskman flipping off Trump’s motorcade brought her internet fame, it also got her [fired from her job](https://time.com/5025916/juli-briskman-gofundme-trump/) at holding company Akima LLC, which claimed she had violated their social media policy. (She later [sued the company](https://time.com/5228865/juli-briskman-donald-trump-middle-finger-lawsuit/) and won a severance claim, The Washington _Post_ [reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-famously-flipped-off-the-president-now-juli-briskman-is-running-for-office/2019/07/18/4b4ff444-a95b-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9%5Fstory.html).) During a history-making election night which saw [Democrats gained control of the Virginia state legislature](https://time.com/5719513/democrats-flip-virginia-state-legislature/), Briskman was voted on to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, representing the county’s Algonkian district. Loudoun County is home to the president’s Trump National Golf Club and, when announcing her campaign, Briskman told the _Post_ that she had joined activists protesting outside the club whenever Trump was in attendance. Briskman, who ran as a Democrat, defeated eight-year incumbent Suzanne Volpe for the seat with about 52% of the vote, according to the Associated Press. In a tweet, she wrote she was “looking forward to representing my friends and neighbors.” > [](https://twitter.com/julibriskman/status/1191695244615655426) > [](https://twitter.com/julibriskman/status/1191926528889765888) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/"},"headline":"Woman Who Lost Job After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Wins Election in Virginia","datePublished":"2019-11-06T14:48:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:52:29.486Z","description":"Juli Briskman, who ran as a Democrat, defeated an eight-year incumbent","url":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/","keywords":["Virginia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fc0eb3c6561c770/698a055e8fd2ee31bb3605e0/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-virginia-election.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fc0eb3c6561c770/698a055e8fd2ee31bb3605e0/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-virginia-election.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-ELECTION-TRUMP","caption":"US-POLITICS-ELECTION-TRUMP","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/virginia/","name":"Virginia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/","name":"Woman Who Lost Job After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Wins Election in Virginia"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Woman Fired Over Photo Flipping Off President Trump's Motorcade Files Suit","description":"The woman photographed flipping off President Trump’s motorcade has filed a lawsuit, after being fired from her job because of the photo.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GpzLv99K/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-04-05T14:50:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GpzLv99K.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/","duration":"PT40S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5719601/juli-briskman-trump-middle-finger-virginia-election/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```