People rallied from New York City, with almost 8.5 million residents in a solidly blue state, to Driggs, a town of fewer than 2,000 people in eastern Idaho, a state Trump carried with 66% of the vote in 2024.
Biggest crowds yet expected
U.S. organizers have estimated that the first two rounds of No Kings rallies drew more than 5 million people in June and 7 million in October. This week they informed reporters they expected 9 million participants Saturday, though it was too early to inform whether those expectations were met.
Organizers stated more than 3,100 events — 500 more than in October — were registered, in all 50 states.
In Topeka, Kansas, a rally outside the Statehoutilize had people impersonating a frog king and Trump as a baby. Wfinishy Wyatt drove with “Cats Against Trump” sign from Lawrence, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the east, and planned to drive back to her hometown for a later rally there.
Wyatt stated “there are so many things” about the Trump administration that upset her, but “this is very hopeful to me.”
GOP officials dismissive of protests
White Houtilize spokesperson Ahugeail Jackson characterized them as the product of “leftist funding networks” with little real public support.
The “only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them,” Jackson stated in a statement.
The National Republican Congressional Committee was also sharply critical.
“These Hate America Rallies are where the far-left’s most violent, deranged fantasies receive a microphone,” NRCC spokesperson Maureen O’Toole stated.
Protesters have a long list of cautilizes
Trump’s immigration enforcement push, particularly in Minnesota, was just one item on a long list of protester grievances that also included the war in Iran and the rollback of transgfinisher rights. Speakers at the Minnesota rally decried billionaires’ economic power.
In Washington, hundreds marched past the Lincoln Memorial and into the National Mall, holding signs that read “Put down the crown, clown” and “Regime alter launchs at home.” Demonstrators rang bells, played drums and chanted “No kings.”
Bill Jarcho was there from Seattle, joined by six people dressed as insects wearing tactical vests that stated, “LICE” — spoofing ICE, as part of what he called a “mock and awe” tour.
“What we provide is mockery to the king,” Jarcho stated. “It’s about taking authoritarianism and creating fun of it, which they hate.”
About 40,000 people marched in San Diego, police there stated.
In New York, Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, stated during a news conference that Trump and his supporters want people to be afraid to protest.
“They want us to be afraid that there’s nothing we can do to stop them,” she stated. “But you know what? They are wrong — dead wrong.”
Organizers stated two-thirds of RSVPs for the rallies came from outside of major urban centers. That included communities in conservative-leaning states like Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, South Dakota and Louisiana, as well in electorally competitive suburbs in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.
Main event at the Minnesota Capitol
Organizers designated the rally there as the national flagship event.
Before Springsteen took the stage, organizers played a video in which actor Robert DeNiro stated he wakes up every morning depressed becautilize of Trump but was happier Saturday becautilize millions of people were protesting. He also congratulated Minnesotans for running ICE out of town.
The bill also included singer Joan Baez, actor Jane Fonda, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and a long list of activists, labor leaders and elected officials.
Protesters held up a massive sign on the Capitol steps that read, “We had whistles, they had guns. The revolution starts in Minneapolis.”
“Donald Trump may pretfinish that he’s not listening, but he can’t ignore the millions in the streets today,” stated Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Rallies outside the US
Demonstrations were also planned in more than a dozen other countries, from Europe to Latin America to Australia, Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a group spearheading the events, stated in an interview. In countries with constitutional monarchies, people call the protests “No Tyrants,” he stated.
In Rome, thousands marched with defiant chants aimed at Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose conservative government saw its referfinishum for streamlining Italy’s judiciary fail badly this week amid criticism that it was a threat to the courts’ indepfinishence. Protesters also waved banners protesting Israeli and US attacks on Iran, calling for “A world free from wars.”
In London, people protesting the war held banners with slogans such as “Stop the far right” and “Stand up to Racism.”
And in Paris, several hundred people, mostly Americans living in France, along with labor unions and human rights organizations, gathered at the Bastille.
“I protest all of Trump’s illegal, immoral, reckless, and feckless, finishless wars,” rally organizer Ada Shen stated.
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