Saturday marked the largest day of protest for the reason that begin of Donald Trumps’ second time period. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million folks took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his insurance policies, and his ways. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there have been over 2,700 occasions in all 50 states. That’s a large improve from the roughly 5 million protesters at 2,000 occasions it claimed for its June No Kings day, signalling that opposition to the president could also be rising.
A number of particular person occasions topped 100,000 contributors, together with Twin Cities, New York Metropolis, and Chicago, which was estimated to have 250,000 folks. That Chicago would have one of many largest turnouts within the nation is hardly stunning given the administration’s current immigration crackdown within the metropolis, which has led to a number of high-profile incidents involving ICE brokers.
The response from the President and his administration was to publish a bunch of AI slop on social media, together with one through which the president drops what seems to be feces on protesters from a fighter jet. Maybe most telling is that in a number of movies and pictures, Donald Trump is explicitly known as King Trump and pictured sporting a crown, together with one picture posted by the official White Home X account. It seems that the administration is placing apart pretense at this level.
