On Saturday, crowds They gathered in cities across the United States to protest President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers of the No Kings rallies say more than 7 million people attended in total, in 2,700 cities in the United States and beyond. The meetings provided a clear picture not only of how widespread resistance to the Trump administration has become, but also of the diversity of the coalition driving it. Not to mention the signs.
“Today, millions of Americans came together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not the ambition of one man,” Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, co-founders of the nonprofit Indivisible, which took the lead in organizing the protests, said in a statement.
Before Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson described the planned rallies as a “rally of hate for America” and warned that the crowds would be filled with “antifa guys.” In reality, the protests were uniformly peaceful, and the inflatable costumes appeared to outnumber the conservative ghosts by a wide margin. And Donald Trump’s response to No Kings? One generated by AI video of himself, wearing a crown, flying a fighter jet, and dumping enormous amounts of excrement on the protesting American citizens below.
In the real world, the crowds traveled their routes without problems. Below are snapshots of No Kings in cities across the United States, a look at a protest movement increasingly motivated and able to mobilize.
