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According to organizers, approximately 7 million protesters in small cities and towns across the country joined the “No Kings” protests to rally against Donald Trump’s presidency.
The President announced that he was “Not the king” Fox News on Friday, but that didn’t stop Lakhs of people coming to the rally Protests against the second Trump administration are taking place in more than 2,500 locations across the US. Saturday’s event marks the third mass mobilization since Trump recaptured the White House last year.
Organizers said the event is one of the largest one-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, surpassing the more than 5 million protesters who joined the first iteration of the “No Kings” protests in June.
“Today, millions showed that we, the people, will not be silenced,” Deirdre Schieffeling, chief political and advocacy officer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
Protesters at rallies across the country chanted a common slogan: “Hey hey! Ho ho! Donald Trump has to go!” inflatable suitReferences to the Revolutionary War, and posters showing Trump wearing a crown, were ubiquitous.
Organizers described the protests as “overwhelmingly peaceful”.
Organizers said more than 350,000 people protested across New York City on Saturday NYPD No arrests related to the protests. Rallies in Charlotte, North Carolina also did not result in any arrests, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Said,
After thousands of people marched, Trump spent the day in Palm Beach, Florida. Some Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer And Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovernAttended rallies. Meanwhile, several prominent Republicans to plead strongly Americans Staying home and watching college football instead of attending protests, as some have called it “Hate America” rallies.
“We have what we call a ‘Hate America’ rally that will be on Saturday. Let’s see who shows up. I’m sure you’ll see pro-Hamas supporters. I’m sure you’ll see Antifa type people. I’m sure you’ll see Marxists on full display,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier this week.
Washington DC
Taking the stage in Washington, D.C., where more than 200,000 protesters turned out, independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders immediately took aim at Johnson’s comments. The House speaker “called these rallies ‘Hate America events.'” Boy, did he get it wrong,” Sanders said. “Millions of people came together in thousands of cities across the country, not because they hate America, but because they love America,” the senator said.
He warned that the American experiment “is now in danger”, citing several of Trump’s actions, including sending masked federal agents into cities, the president’s lawsuits against media companies, and Trump’s threats. Arrest and jail his alleged political enemies,
“This moment is not just about one man’s greed, one man’s corruption, or one man’s contempt for the Constitution,” Sanders told the crowd. “This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have taken over our economy and our political system to enrich themselves at the expense of working families across this country.”
He condemned the billionaires who helped finance Trump’s re-election campaign and attended his inauguration, specifically naming Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg.
He said, “We rejected the divine right of kings in the 1770s. We would not accept the divine right of oligarchs today.”
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miami
In Miami, where thousands of protesters gathered, Enrique TarrioFormer Proud Boys leader, seen with a videographer at the “No Kings” protest miami herald Informed. tario was in 2023 sentenced to 22 years Behind bars in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. trump sorry Him earlier this year.
Organizers used a megaphone to tell the crowd, “Move away from the agitator,” the outlet reported. “Please do not engage with any outside agitators.”
“I support all these guys, especially the one with the bullhorn,” Tarrio said.
“These protesters are 100 percent expressing the same rights that they had during January 6,” said the man livestreaming Tarrio.
chicago
Further north in Chicago, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker addressed a crowd of 100,000 in a city where Trump recently asked the Supreme Court to allow him to deploy National Guard troops after lower court judges ruled against the move.
Pritzker, who has protested again and again Spoke of resistance to the demands of the Trump administration.
He asked, “History will judge us based on where we stand today. Future generations will ask: ‘What did we do when fellow human beings faced oppression? When our rights were being violated? When our Constitution was under attack?’ “They will want to know whether we stood up or remained silent.”
The Democratic governor continued, “Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, your compliance; democracy requires courage.”
“Resistance means choosing solidarity over fear, and it means recognizing that an attack on immigrants’ rights to free speech, on due process, is an attack on the rights of everyone,” Pritzker told the crowd. “It means understanding that we are either building a society based on human dignity, or we are building a society based on domination.”
actor John Cusack also commented On Trump’s appeal to the Supreme Court. talking to cnnThe say anything Starr had a direct message to the President: “No, you can’t put troops on our streets. You can’t create enough chaos to invoke the Insurrection Act so you can stay in power. We all know what your plan is.”
Cusack, a Chicago native, said the message to the city administration is: “Fuck you!”
atlanta
More than 35,000 protesters gathered in Atlanta, where Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock told the rally crowd that Americans should be “concerned” about Trump’s recent comments to the military.
Last month, Trump told top military leaders at Quantico, Virginia: “This is going to be a big deal to the people in this room, because this is the enemy from within, and we have to handle this before it gets out of control.” He told them that some of them would be involved in using Democrat-run American cities as “training grounds” for troops.
Warnock said, according toGuardian: “Listen to me: I don’t care what your politics are today. I mean it. If you’re an American citizen, you should be deeply concerned. And I know you are. That’s why you’ve gathered here today. We should all be deeply concerned about an American president who stood in front of our military and said the real concern is the enemy within.”
The senator also criticized ICE, which has been conducting raids across the country.
He said, “Communities across our country are seeing – imagine this – agents of the government flying into Chicago in Blackhawk helicopters, taking down an apartment building in the middle of an American city.” “Literally separating black people from brown people. I’m a preacher, but I have to say this. What the hell is going on? And we all have to be concerned.”
