Saturday, the crowd 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 participated in total, in 2,700 cities across the United States and beyond. The rallies provided a clear picture not only of the scale of resistance to the Trump administration, but also of the diversity of the coalition leading it. Not to mention the signs.
“Today, millions of Americans united 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 rallies, said in a statement.
Before Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the planned rallies a “hate rally for America” and warned that the crowds would be filled with “antifa types.” In reality, the protests were uniformly peaceful, with inflatable costumes appearing to far outnumber conservative bogeymen. And Trump’s response to No Kings? An AI-generated video of himself, wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet and dropping massive amounts of feces on protesting American citizens below.
In the real world, mobs traveled their route without issue. Below are snapshots of No Kings in cities across the United States, a look at a protest movement that is increasingly motivated and capable of mobilizing.
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