Seven million people attended this Saturday, according to organizers, the protests dubbed No Kings that had been called in 2,500 cities and municipalities throughout the United States.
“Make America Normal Again”, “You’re fired” or “UnTrump America” were some of the slogans that could be read on the banners of this massive mobilization against the president’s increasingly manifest authoritarianism.
However, the motto and cry that was seen and heard in all the protests was “No Kings”, as occurred in the June 14 demonstrations, organized on the president’s birthday.
A protester at the ‘No Kings’ protests.
This motto refers, as EFE explains, “to the perception that the president acts as a monarch and remembers that the United States was founded in 1776 on the rejection of the absolute power of a sovereign.”
In an interview last Friday on Fox Business, Trump referred to this with the following words: “They say I behave like a king. I’m not a king.”
These massive mobilizations combine the discontent of many Americans with different policies of the Trump administration, from the raids on immigrants, the militarization of important cities, cuts in healthcare, the government shutdown or the attempts to silence critical voices, with the example of television presenter Jimmy Kimmel still recent.
Protest against Trump next to the Capitol.
Thus, Palestinian flags were also seen among the protesters, in favor of the LGTBIQ+ group or Latin countries. In addition, many of them wore yellow clothing, something not casual: this tone was the clothing worn by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2019.
The protests have also been followed outside the United States, with calls in cities such as London, Rome, Paris and Madrid.
