Millions of Americans are expected to gather Saturday for another round of ‘No Kings’ demonstrations protesting authoritarianism under President Donald Trump, who, in recent months, has sicced the National Guard and immigration agents on blue strongholds, pressured the Justice Department to charge his political enemies and used his power to wield control over media giants.
While House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has claimed the 2,500-plus protests are being arranged by “the pro-Hamas wing and the Antifa people,” the actual groups helping rally protesters include Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign and the American Federation of Teachers.
“I’ve had it with these people,” Johnson complained on Fox News last week.
If the size of June’s No King protests are any indication, Saturday’s events will be widespread and massively attended. The one in late spring drew around 5 million people and is thought to be one of the largest single-day coordinated protest events in U.S. history, organizers said.
And while a map of events shows huge clusters of protests planned in blue areas, there are still more than a dozen each in deep-red Wyoming and Oklahoma.
