A slogan touted as a warning against rising authoritarianism under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has, over the past year, grown into one of the largest protest movements in recent American history with millions across the country and in cities abroad, taking to the streets on March 28 under the banner: “No Kings.”
“IN AMERICA, WE HAVE NO KINGS,” declares the website of the ‘No Kings’ movement, a loose but rapidly expanding coalition opposing President Donald Trump, in a message that has now become a rallying cry. It goes on to accuse the administration of unleashing “masked secret police”, pursuing “an illegal, catastrophic war putting us in danger and driving up our costs”, and undermining civil liberties. “Power belongs to the people — not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies.”
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson characterised 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,” Ms. Jackson said in a statement.
In Pictures | 'No Kings' protests erupt across the U.S.
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