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Anti Trump No Kings Protests Draw Thousands In U S

Bonisiwe Shabane
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anti trump no kings protests draw thousands in u s

Huge crowds took part in "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump's policies in cities across the US on Saturday, including New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Thousands packed New York City's iconic Times Square and streets all around, with people holding signs with slogans like "Democracy not Monarchy" and "The Constitution is not optional". Ahead of the demonstrations, Trump allies accused the protesters of being linked with the far-left Antifa movement, and condemned what they called "the hate America rally". Several US states had mobilised the National Guard. But organisers said the events, which drew nearly seven million people, were peaceful. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has expanded the scope of presidential power, using executive orders to dismantle parts of the federal government and to deploy National Guard troops to US...

As Washington, D.C. prepares for Donald Trump’s military birthday parade, ostensibly in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, people in 2,000 locations across the country gathered for “No Kings Day” countering the president’s celebration. The protests come after Trump, who turned 79 on Saturday, deployed the National Guard and the Marines this past week during protests in Los Angeles opposing aggressive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Law enforcement have used non-lethal weapons on protesters and journalists covering the protests against ICE. That did not stop the “No Kings” protests on Saturday, though, as 20,000 people gathered in the streets of downtown Los Angeles.

Some protesters held a giant balloon, à la Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, of Trump in a diaper. “In the context of [Trump’s] escalation in L.A., it takes on greater import,” Ezra Levin, a cofounder of the progressive grassroots giant Indivisible, told Rolling Stone earlier this week about the protests. “You need to have a visible demonstration that Americans are against authoritarian overreach.” At Ocean Beach in San Francisco, hundreds of protesters arranged themselves to spell “No King!” when viewed from above. Underneath, people held up an upside-down American flag. Updated on: June 15, 2025 / 7:55 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Demonstrators crowded into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. on Saturday to protest President Trump, marching through downtowns and blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Organizers of the "No Kings" demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering. Confrontations were isolated.

But one person was transported to a Salt Lake City hospital Saturday night with life-threatening injuries after a shooting during that city's protest, officials said. Salt Lake City police said the shooting was "possibly associated with the demonstration." Huge, boisterous crowds marched in New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, some behind "no kings" banners. Marc Levy, Associated Press Marc Levy, Associated Press Claudia Lauer, Associated Press Claudia Lauer, Associated Press Jim Vertuno, Associated Press Jim Vertuno, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Organizers of the "No Kings" demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering. In cities and towns across the US, huge crowds took to the streets Saturday to protest against the Trump administration in the “No Kings” demonstrations, which the Republican Party condemned as “Hate America” rallies.

Around seven million people attended the protests, said organisers, decrying what they called the government's drift into authoritarianism. Issued on: 18/10/2025 - 07:33Modified: 19/10/2025 - 07:06 To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Huge crowds took to the streets in all 50 US states at "No Kings" protests on Saturday, venting anger over President Donald Trump's hardline policies, while Republicans ridiculed them as "Hate America" rallies.

Americans turned out en masse in communities across the country Saturday, raucously pushing back on what they see as President Donald Trump’s widening authoritarianism, attacks on immigrants and deep cuts to scores of federal... This story has been updated to include new estimates of protest crowd size. Demonstrators filled the streets of U.S. cities and towns in coordinated "No Kings" events, billed as a "national day of peaceful protest," in the largest outpouring of opposition to Trump's policies since he returned to power in January. The mostly calm marches, organized under the theme that no individual is above the law, coincided with the day President Donald Trump hosted a military parade on the streets of the nation's capital. At least one demonstration, about 70 miles from Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia, was met with violence when a man intentionally drove an SUV through a crowd of departing protesters, striking at least one...

Police in Los Angeles hit protesters with batons, fired tear gas and ordered a large crowd in downtown to disperse; authorities said they were responding to people throwing "rocks, bricks, bottles," and "fireworks" at... Activists in some areas braved wet weather to raise signs and chant slogans. supporting the rights of immigrants and criticizing what they view as a power grab by the Trump administration.

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