{"id":80845,"date":"2025-10-19T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=80845"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:17:18","slug":"no-kings-protests-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/no-kings-protests-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions rally across the U.S. in \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests against Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans flooded the streets this weekend in \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations aimed at condemning what they described as the <a title=\"Trump\u2019s \u201cbeautiful woman\u201d remark to Meloni sparks backlash\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trumps-beautiful-woman-meloni-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> administration\u2019s slide toward authoritarianism. From New York to Los Angeles\u2014and even near Trump\u2019s Florida residence\u2014protesters marched under banners calling for the protection of democracy and the end of \u201cstrongman politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, thousands gathered near the U.S. Capitol\u2014where the federal government remains shut down for a third week\u2014chanting, \u201cThis is what democracy looks like!\u201d and \u201cDonald Trump has got to go!\u201d Organizers claimed around seven million people participated nationwide, though officials put local turnout in the hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Kings-trump-730x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Kings-trump-730x500.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Kings-trump-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Kings-trump-220x150.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Kings-trump.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trump\u2019s response: AI videos and defiance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>President Trump reacted on his Truth Social platform with a barrage of AI-generated videos portraying himself as a king wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet dropping waste on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson mocked the movement, labeling the demonstrations as \u201cHate America rallies\u201d and claiming they brought together \u201cMarxists, socialists, anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cDemocracy is dying\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Protesters accused Trump of using authoritarian tactics\u2014attacking the media, targeting political opponents, and waging a harsh campaign against undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought I would live to see the death of my country as a democracy,\u201d said Colleen Hoffman, 69, marching in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a crisis. The cruelty, the authoritarianism\u2014I just couldn\u2019t stay home and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles, demonstrators launched a massive balloon depicting Trump in a diaper, while in Houston, one banner read: \u201cFight ignorance, not migrants.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE l 'No Kings' anti-Trump protests in NYC, across the US\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FiG9VoJtyU\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans flooded the streets this weekend in \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations aimed at condemning what they described as the Trump administration\u2019s slide toward authoritarianism. From New York to Los Angeles\u2014and even near Trump\u2019s Florida residence\u2014protesters marched under banners calling for the protection of democracy and the end of \u201cstrongman politics.\u201d In Washington, thousands gathered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":80846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[77111,2379,6945,80050,4221,80108,11221,77647,1133,260],"class_list":["post-80845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-america","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democracy","tag-los-angeles","tag-mike-johnson","tag-new-york","tag-no-kings","tag-protest","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80848,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80845\/revisions\/80848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}