President Donald Trump said he doesn’t feel like royalty when asked for his response on the “No Kings” rallies planned across the country in protest of his expansive use of executive power. The roughly 2,000 rallies are expected to coincide with a military parade Trump is holding in Washington D.C on June 14 on the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and Trump’s 79th birthday.
The protest organizers say Trump is “hijacking” the Army’s anniversary to “feed his ego” and celebrate himself.
“I don't feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in the White House right after he signed three resolutions overturning California’s mandate to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles and speed up the adoption of electric vehicles by 2035.
“The king would have never had the California mandate. He wouldn't have to call up Mike Johnson and say, 'fellas, you have got to pull this off,'” he said, referring to House Speaker Mike Johnson. “And after years, we get it done. No, no, we're not a king.”
Indivisible, a progressive group, alongside a coalition of partner organizations, said it's holding the events to “reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy actually looks like: people, united, refusing to be ruled.”
