WASHINGTON – This past Saturday, nearly 7 million people attended No Kings protests across the country.
No Kings, which calls itself a movement against President Trump’s “abuses of power,” has described Saturday’s protests as being a part of a “sustained national resistance to tyranny.”
Protesters in Washington D.C. attributed their desire to protest to many issues, including the deployment of the National Guard, mass federal layoffs, furloughs, the lack of pay for federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown and the cutting of education and health funding.
“I have accepted this is reality,” said No Kings protester Nadine Seiler. “But I just still cannot grasp that the American public is accepting what is happening and it is beyond frustrating.”
Organizers said people protested at more than 2,700 locations across the country.
