Scenes from nationwide protests on Saturday “without a king”.
Saturday, crowd Cities across the United States rallied to protest President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers of the No Kings protests claim that more than 7 million people participated in all, in 2,700 cities in the United States and beyond. These gatherings provided a clear picture not only of the extent of the resistance against the Trump administration, but also of the diversity of the coalition that drives it forward. Without mentioning the signs.
“Today, millions of Americans stood together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not to the ambition of one person,” Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, founders of the nonprofit Indivisible, which led the organization of the protest, said in a statement.
Earlier on Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson described the planned rallies as “demonstrations of hatred for America” and warned that the crowd would be filled with “Antifa types.” In reality, the demonstrations were uniformly peaceful, and windbreakers seemed to vastly outnumber conservative men. And Trump’s response to No Kings? An AI-generated video of himself, wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet and dumping copious amounts of feces on protesting American citizens below.
In the real world, the crowd moved on without a problem. Below are images of No Kings from cities across the United States, a look at an increasingly motivated and mobilizing protest movement.
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