Update Thousands Attending No Kings Protests Across The U S

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 30, 2025, 10:14 PM

update thousands attending no kings protests across the u s

Millions of people turned out nationwide on Oct. 18 to protest actions by the Trump administration and celebrate their Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly. The crowds at an estimated 2,700 rallies across the country included older Americans who protested Vietnam or never protested anything before, veterans who said they didn't fight for a country led by a dictator,... Many said they were upset by the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants and other vulnerable populations. If crowd estimates hold, the one-day "No Kings" event was the largest civil action in the United States since the first Earth Day, 55 years ago. No major incidents or arrests were reported during the day.

Republican leaders spoke out ahead of the Saturday protests, blaming them for the current government shutdown and labeling them "hate America" rallies. In Cathedral City, California, protesters waved handmade signs and one carried a Trump-lookalike mannequin. In Fort Collins, Colorado, one man brought his horse to the protest. Several protesters in Fort Myers, Florida, were seen wearing inflatable costumes, as they lined the side of a highway. Protesters held rallies across the country opposing Trump’s agenda on the day of the president’s military parade. They cap a week of demonstrations against immigration raids that began in Los Angeles and spread nationwide.

Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests were organized by a coalition of groups. John Yang speaks with Lisa Gilbert, the co-president of one of them, Public Citizen. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. There have been rallies across the country opposing President Trump's agenda on the day of the president's military parade. They cap a week of demonstrations against immigration raids that began in Los Angeles and spread nationwide.

Today's events in about 2,000 cities and towns were organized by the no Kings movement, which calls the administration's actions authoritarian. There were rallies near Mr. Trump's Mar a Lago residence in West Palm Beach, Florida. In Boston, where it was raining in Atlanta, with Proud Boy counter protesters looking on. And in Philadelphia, the flagship No Kings rally. Local officials urged protesters to demonstrate peacefully and avoid blocking roads.

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. To celebrate her 70th birthday, retired government worker Peggy Cole says she and a friend drove nearly 10 hours from her hometown of Flint, Michigan, to join a protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Cole said she felt compelled to mark the milestone at the large demonstration because it’s a “scary time” for Americans and democracy is at stake.

“It seems to me, (Trump is) taking our government, our democracy, and dismantling it piece by piece, slowly, but surely, if we sit by and don’t do anything about it,” Cole said. The event was one of more than 2,700 “No Kings” rallies held across the country on Saturday, protesting what organizers describe as President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” agenda. That’s hundreds more events than were planned for the first go-round in June, when about 5 million people across the country took to the streets to protest Trump’s administration as he held a military... Nearly 7 million people showed up for Saturday’s rallies – including more than 100,000 people in New York, organizers and officials said. Along with larger events in major cities, small pockets of “No Kings” protesters cropped up along busy thoroughfares, in small town squares and at municipal parks in red and blue states alike. A previously calm demonstration in downtown Los Angeles turned chaotic as police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the...

(AP Video Mark Vancleave) Police in Los Angeles, where protests over federal immigration enforcement raids erupted a week earlier and sparked demonstrations across the country, used tear gas and crowd-control munitions to clear out protesters on Saturday. (AP video: Mark Vancleave) Thousands gathered for a flagship “No Kings” march in Philadelphia to the Museum of Art, joining similar anti-Trump demonstrations happening across the U.S. (AP video: Tassanee Vejpongsa) Demonstrators share why they joined the thousands in LA protesting against President Trump recent actions related to ICE raids and the deployment of 4,700 troops to the city.

A young protester carries a combination Mexican and U.S. flag during a “No Kings” protest in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) Millions of Americans took to the streets on Saturday in nationwide mass protests against what they perceive to be rising authoritarianism and corruption under President Donald Trump. More than 2,700 “No Kings” rallies were due to be held in all 50 states in what is thought to be the largest mobilization against the Trump Administration over the president's two terms. Organizers estimated some 7 million people protested across the country in suburbs, towns and most major cities.

Huge crowds were reported in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Protests were also seen in deep red states—in Birmingham, Alabama and Billings, Montana. Some experts have speculated that the demonstrations could be the largest in modern U.S. history. “Today, millions of Americans stood together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not to one man’s ambition,” Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, co-founders of Indivisible, which... The protests come in response to an unprecedented use of presidential power by Trump in his second term.

Since January, Trump has ordered the National Guard into Democratic-run cities to quell protests and aid in immigration enforcement, launched a crackdown on left-wing and liberal groups, and implemented a sweeping mass deportation program... There were no reports of violence or arrests at the rallies Activists and advocacy groups staged a second round of "No Kings" protests across the country on Saturday in response to what they call abuse of power by President Donald Trump and his administration, including... Photos and videos of events from Boston to Los Angeles showed huge crowds of demonstrators carrying signs protesting the administration's policies such as mass deportations. Republicans contended the protests were "hate America" rallies and claimed they're prolonging the federal government shutdown. There were no immediate reports of violent incidents or arrests, according to local police departments.

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...

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