Millions across the U.S. are taking to the streets to oppose President Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda in the second round of ‘No Kings’ protests. In Washington, DC, tens of thousands gathered to hear speeches from Senator Bernie Sanders, Bill Nye, and Zeteo’s editor-in-chief, Mehdi Hasan.
In a rousing address, Mehdi called out Republican claims that the protests are “hate rallies,” emphasizing that his actions come from love for the country. He humorously labeled himself “everything Donald Trump hates” – a journalist, immigrant, and Muslim – and criticized Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza.
Mehdi’s speech reminded the crowd of the power of unity, asking: “Are you willing to sit back and let Trump shred our freedoms?” The crowd responded with a thunderous “NO!”
00:00And now, let's give a warm, no kings welcome to Mehdi Hassan, founder and CEO and editor-in-chief of the new media company, Zateo.
00:19Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, friends, my name is Mehdi Hassan, I am a journalist, I am an immigrant, and I am a Muslim.
00:30I am everything Donald Trump loves. I am the Trump trifecta. I'm also a bit of a socialist, but, but shh, don't tell Stephen Miller, he alarms quite quickly.
00:49Can I just say, it is so heartwarming to see so many of you out here in D.C. today. D.C., make some noise.
00:55We need to make sure today that they hear us in the White House and in the Capitol.
01:05All week, I've heard Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican members of Congress say that this rally, the No Kings rally, is a hate rally.
01:18The people who can't get through a single day without hating on late night comedians and overweight soldiers and Muslim politicians and Mexican immigrants and Palestinian refugees and black women and transgender kids and peaceful protesters and Mr. Fricking Potato Head, they are lecturing us on hate?
01:45Really? Really? I'm not here out of hate. I'm here out of love.
01:56I'm here because I love this country. I love America. I love the First Amendment. I love our democracy. I love our diversity. Yes, our diversity.
02:08And I love our diversity. And I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial, multicultural democratic experiment, our constitutional republic destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2.
02:25Not going to do it because I did not inherit America. I did not inherit America. I chose America. I wasn't born here. I immigrated here.
02:41And we immigrants, we love this country often more than the people who are born here because we chose to move here, live here, swear an oath to the Constitution here, an oath that the guy down the street violates every morning and every night.
03:00The great irony is, of course, the great irony is, of course, that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant, the grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant.
03:11In fact, two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
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