Thousands Gather In New Orleans For No Kings Demonstration

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 30, 2025, 5:07 PM

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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Thousands of people gathered at the Lafitte Greenway on Saturday for the “No Kings” protest, part of nationwide demonstrations calling for changes in government policies. The No Kings Day 2.0 event combined festival and demonstration elements, with music, costumes and chants filling the grounds as the Star-Spangled Banner echoed through the area. Participants said the protest was about protecting democracy and ensuring that citizens’ voices are heard. “The hate in this state has become so horrible,” said Brent Mundt. “So, to see this kind of love in this many people who are trying to save our democracy, it’s just amazing.” Jennifer Pierce said the gathering provided purpose in uncertain times.

Thousands gathered on the Lafitte Greenway lawn for the nationwide "No Kings 2.0" protest against what organizers described as the "authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration." See coverage of No Kings events in the northshore, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport. Jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins kicked off the rally with renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" as an American flag-waving crowd sang solemnly along, some dressed as ducks, unicorns and Pokémon, others... "What is our objective? To defend the Constitution from those who think they are above it," said speaker Alanah Odoms, executive director for ACLU Louisiana. "You know why?

Because we have a Constitution, not a king." Thousands of protestors gather at the Lafitte Greenway for the No Kings Rally in New Orleans, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) To stream WWL TV on your phone, you need the WWL TV app. Example video title will go here for this video

Example video title will go here for this video NEW ORLEANS — Thousands gathered on Lafitte Greenway to take part in "No Kings 2.0." rally in New Orleans Saturday. The event is part of National No Kings Day of Peaceful Action, which includes about 2,650 demonstrations across the U.S. New Orleans is one of 10 "anchor cities" selected by the National Indivisible Project. A poster displays a participant’s preference for a king cake baby over President Donald Trump during the No Kings protest parade in New Orleans on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)

NEW ORLEANS – Costumes, brass bands and even makeshift floats followed a twisting parade route Saturday in one of hundreds of “No Kings” protests across the country, meant to coincide and counter events in... Army. Thousands assembled in sweltering heat at a vacant lot in the historic Marigny neighborhood, adjacent to the French Quarter. The city block-sized property slowly emptied as organizers led the crowd down residential streets, with police blocking traffic at intersections along the way to a culminating rally in Washington Square Park. Tourists and locals along Frenchmen Street, including passengers on a mule-drawn carriage, unknowingly became part of the procession. “No kings!

No Trump!” a man shouted from his balcony, drawing cheers from the crowd below. More than 30 minutes after speeches began at the rally, elements of the parade were still arriving to the park. Pro LGBTQ+ marchers and their signs were prominent among the anti-Trump displays, with the annual Nola Pride Fest also bringing them to the city for the weekend. (The Center Square) − Thousands of New Orleans demonstrators paraded from the corner of Mandeville and Decatur near the French Quarter to Washington Square Park in opposition to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration. New Orleans was one of more than 2,000 U.S. cities where protesters gathered on Saturday in opposition to Trump's deportations of noncitizens in the U.S.

illegally. The protests were dubbed "No Kings." The Center Square observed no violent or otherwise destructive conduct from protesters. Signs held by protesters compared the Trump administration to the German Nazi Party, a "circus" and a "disease." Protesters chanted "No Trump, No KKK, No Racist USA," "F*** Donald Trump," and "86 47," a... In restaurant and bar lingo, to "86" something means to cancel it or remove it from the menu. “Immigrations and Customs Enforcement think nothing of taking people off the street,” Mark Ellis, a California native, told The Center Square.

Thousands of demonstrators — at least 6,500, organizers estimated — marched through New Orleans on Saturday as part of “No Kings Day,” a coordinated nationwide protest against authoritarianism and political overreach. While brass bands played, protestors carried handmade signs, chanted slogans, and voiced concern about threats to civil rights, the rule of law, and democratic norms. Because of the recent lawsuit over the longtime bubble machine in the French Quarter, some protestors also blew bubbles, as a sign of New Orleans-style rebellion. The so-called day of defiance was a response to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and took place after widespread protests took over parts of Los Angeles, prompting Trump to send federal troops there without... Organizers framed the event as a rejection of that sort of imperialism, of billionaire-first politics, and the increasing militarization of public life. Protestors walk on Frenchmen Street during the No Kings Day of Action protest in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Saturday, June 14, 2025.

(Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) Several thousand protesters flooded the streets of downtown New Orleans on Saturday to demonstrate against what organizers called President Donald Trump's "authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of democracy." The No Kings Day of Action protest was part of a series of demonstrations in cities across the nation, including Covington, Baton Rouge and Lafayette, scheduled to coincide with an elaborate military parade organized... Army's 250th anniversary. Saturday is also Flag Day and the president's 79th birthday. As the parade started rolling shortly after 10 a.m., Monique Motil stood near the Marigny line-up spot amid throngs of colorfully garbed demonstrators dressed as a flag-draped statue of liberty, a metaphor for the...

Protestors walk through the Marigny neighborhood during the No Kings Day of Action protest in New Orleans, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)

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