Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan Saturday, protesting President Donald Trump and his policies, as part of the larger “No Kings” movement that included more than 3,000 other planned demonstrations nationwide.
Demonstrators gathered at Columbus Circle and Central Park and marched down Seventh Avenue, banging drums and railing against the Trump administration’s “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran, its immigration policies and planned cuts to Medicaid and public education.
Many chanted “No ICE! No Kings! No War!” and carried hand-written signs with slogans such as “Wake Up America, we are living in a fascist state!” and “Nothing is more American than opposing Trump.”
“It’s no King’s Day. It’s getting a little warmer out now, so it’s a nice day to protest,” said Mike Heisy, a 63-year-old retiree.
Others in attendance included radical, Trump-hating far-lefties like actor Robert De Niro and state Attorney General Letitia James.
The vitriol towards the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and the rest of the Trump administration was well-funded.
A network of 500 groups with an estimated budgets totaling $3 billion were behind the coordinated nationwide “No Kings” rallies, including communist groups funded by tech mogul and alleged Communist China Party propagandist Neville Singham, Fox News Digital reported.
Indivisible, a national Democratic political advocacy organization funded by far-left billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protests.
Other cities hosting the demonstrations included Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and St. Paul, Minn., the site of the flagship rally where organizers claimed more than 200,000 turned out.
Rocker Bruce Springsteen performed his new protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” and was joined by others including actor Jane Fonda and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson dismissed the widespread rallies as being pushed by “leftist funding networks” and claimed they had little public support.
The “only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them,” Jackson said in a statement.
With Post wires
