Millions of US protesters hold anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ rallies

Huge crowds took to the streets successful each 50 states of the United States to clasp “No Kings” protests, expressing choler implicit President Donald Trump’s hardline policies, portion Republicans ridiculed them arsenic “Hate America” rallies.

Organisers said 7 cardinal radical attended protests spanning from New York to Los Angeles connected Saturday, with demonstrations taking spot successful tiny cities crossed the US heartland and adjacent adjacent Trump’s location successful Florida.

“This is what ideology looks like!” chanted thousands adjacent the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, wherever the national authorities had been unopen down for a 3rd week amid a legislative deadlock.

Colourful signs called connected radical to “protect democracy”, portion others demanded that the state abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which is astatine the centre of Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown.

Demonstrators condemned what they described arsenic the Republican billionaire’s strong-arm tactics, including attacks connected the media, governmental opponents, and undocumented immigrants.

In Los Angeles, protesters floated a elephantine balloon portraying Trump successful a nappy.

Many flew flags, with astatine slightest 1 referencing the fashionable pirate anime “One Piece”, brandishing the skull logo that has precocious go a staple of antigovernment protests from Peru to Madagascar.

“Fight ignorance, not migrants,” work 1 motion astatine a protestation successful Houston, Texas, wherever astir a 4th of the colonisation is made up of immigrants, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

In New York, authorities said, much than 100,000 radical gathered astatine 1 of the largest protests, portion successful Washington, DC, crowds were estimated astatine betwixt 8,000 and 10,000.

Trump responded to Saturday’s events by posting a bid of AI-generated videos connected his Truth Social platform, depicting himself arsenic a king.

Addressing the assemblage extracurricular the US Capitol, progressive Senator Bernie Sanders warned of the dangers facing ideology nether Trump. “We person a president who wants much and much powerfulness successful his ain hands and successful the hands of his chap oligarchs,” helium said.