What to know
- Demonstrators are mobilizing in thousands of cities and towns, big and small, across the country today to protest what No Kings organizers call President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian power grabs” — his administration’s policies on everything from the Iran war, immigration, federal law-enforcement crackdowns in cities and the recent deployment of ICE officers to airports. Event organizers predict record crowd sizes and promise “peaceful action.”
- Minnesota is hosting the flagship No Kings rally at the state Capitol in St. Paul. Bruce Springsteen is set to perform, along with legendary folksinger Joan Baez. Notable speakers are scheduled to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other civil rights activists and local and state leaders whose constituents are still reeling from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents in Minneapolis in January.
- White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson dismissed this weekend’s planned anti-Trump demonstrations as “Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions.”
- Demonstrators are also gathering en masse for rallies in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Texas, and in the president’s backyard: West Palm Beach, Florida, where protestors plan to march to Mar-a-Lago.