“No Kings” rallies took place across the country on March 28, drawing an estimated 8 million people, according to organizers but not verified by independent analysts.
The rallies drew celebrities, such as Bruce Springsteen, Robert DeNiro, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers.
Rallies were held in big cities, like New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, smaller cities such as Staunton, Virginia, Salisbury, Maryland, Rockford, Illinois, Beaver, Pennsylvania, Eugene, Oregon, Chillicothe, Ohio, Port Huron, Michigan, Flatwoods, West Virginia and in Palm Beach County, Trump’s home county. Rallies were held in more than 3,000 places across the country, plus a scattering around the world.
A twilight rally in West Palm Beach included a march down President Donald Trump Boulevard toward his Mar-a-Lago estate, where the president was spending the weekend, although police turned back the demonstrators before they got close enough to be seen or heard there.
See images from No Kings rallies from across the nation
The White House already had dismissed the protests as meaningless.
“Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions,” spokeswoman Abigail Jackson called them beforehand, of interest only to “the reporters who are paid to cover them.” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella called them “Hate America Rallies.”
What is No Kings?
The left-leaning protests with the Revolutionary-era call against President Donald Trump as a would-be monarch and authoritarian had the broadest geographic reach of any single-day protest in the United States in more than a half-century.
The protesters were united by opposition to Trump and support for democratic institutions they accuse him of endangering.
The signs opposed the war in Iran, decried the cost of housing and health care, supported Ukraine in its war with Russia and raised the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Some of them called for Trump’s impeachment. “Arrest Them!” demanded a banner at one of the marches in Washington, DC, listing the names of Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and others.
At some rallies, there were signs to “Abolish ICE.” A Palestinian flag waved among the crowd at one of the marches in Washington, DC.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: No Kings protests against Trump draw millions. Photos across nation
Reporting by Susan Page, Palm Beach Post / Palm Beach Post
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