Published On 19/10/2025
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Demonstrations against US President Donald Trump on Saturday attracted huge crowds across the country, as the “No to Kings” movement protested what it sees as Trump’s “authoritarian” policies.
Organizers said that nearly 7 million people participated in peaceful demonstrations in about 2,700 cities and municipalities, hundreds of additional locations than the previous protest last June.
Many told reporters that they feared American democracy was in danger, less than 9 months into Trump’s second term. Others carried banners with slogans such as “No king, no one is above the law” or “Democracy, not dictatorship.”
The New York Police recorded the participation of 100,000 people in various demonstrations throughout the city, and said that no riots occurred and no arrests were made.
One of the volunteers told a correspondent of the German News Agency (DPA) in the city’s Times Square that crowds filled the street heading south to Union Square, a distance of several kilometers.
Protests also took place in Washington, D.C., as well as in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cities. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thousands of people took to the streets.
People also participated in marches in smaller towns such as Bethesda in the Washington area and Sarasota County in Florida.
Trump: I’m not a king
CNN reported that a woman was detained in South Carolina after she pointed a weapon at protesters while driving her car.
The movement’s website said that the Trump administration is “sending masked agents” on the streets of America, terrorizing communities and arresting people without a warrant.
The movement also accuses the president of endangering elections, undermining health and environmental protections, and allowing billionaires to profit while many families struggle due to the high cost of living.
The movement added on its website, “The president believes that his rule is absolute, but in America, we do not have kings.”
Trump and his Republican Party deny this description, and told Fox News on Friday, “They say they refer to me as the king… I am not a king.”
The Harvard University Consortium for Crowd Counting indicates that protests were much more frequent in Trump’s second term, which began in late January, than they were in his first term.
In mid-June, several million people participated in the “No to Kings” demonstrations, becoming one of the largest mass protests in US history.