Anti-Trump Protests Across US

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Around 2,500 anti-Trump protests have taken place in all 50 US states and outside the US's borders. Trump allies dismiss the so-called "No Kings" movement as extremist, anti-American or just a stunt. But organizers say around seven million people turned out and that their movement isn't stopping.

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00:00In big cities and small towns, and even here near U.S. President Donald Trump's home, protests

00:08against Trump administration policies spread across the United States on Saturday.

00:14Organizers put together around 2,500 of these protests, part of a wider campaign under the

00:19banner of No Kings that views Trump more as a would-be monarch than a president.

00:25It's the second wave of mass rallies the movement has organized, and organizers say close to

00:29seven million people turned out this time, with the rallies overwhelmingly peaceful.

00:36Protesters said they had many reasons to take to the streets.

00:39Trump's policies on immigration and deportation were on some of their minds.

00:43They're kidnapping people, not just taking, and it's very sad, and it's very frustrating.

00:51Sometimes you cannot do much about that, but this is why, this is why we're here.

00:58While others are angered at National Guard deployments in U.S. cities.

01:02Essentially, Donald Trump has been overreaching his powers as an executive, and we're all here to

01:09protest that and to basically say that he should not be able to conduct these overreaches of his power,

01:18invading cities, and basically showing the public is not willing to put up with that.

01:26And some say they're concerned about the future of U.S. democracy itself.

01:30I'm out here supporting democracy in a joyful way, because we love America,

01:37and we're here to protect our democracy and to protest for those who can't come out to protest.

01:43Oh boy, we do not even recognize our country anymore.

01:46Everything that makes this country great is disappearing.

01:51Our rights are disappearing.

01:53As I said in my sign, freedom of speech is disappearing.

01:57Separation of powers is disappearing.

02:00In addition to rallies in all 50 states, there were also protests outside the U.S., like this one in Berlin.

02:06The question, though, is whether the energy on display can continue and whether it will make any change.

02:12Trump's allies, like House Speaker Mike Johnson, have called the protests extremist and anti-American

02:17and dismissed them as political theater.

02:19This rally is not about freedom. It's about the opposite. For many of our Democrat colleagues,

02:25tomorrow is about creating really a spectacle. That's what they've been doing here every day,

02:30the shutdown, with their little TikTok videos and their publicity stunts. And they're going to do it

02:35in a much larger venue tomorrow.

02:36And Trump himself is expected to say that he is not a king of any sort in a forthcoming interview

02:42with Fox News. The roughly 40 percent of Americans who, according to polls, approve of his job may

02:47be inclined to agree with him. Still, the rallies show millions of Americans are unhappy with the

02:53president's actions. No King's organizers already have a virtual event set for Tuesday to discuss what

02:59comes next, suggesting this may not be the last of the mass protests. Alex Chen and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.

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