‘No Kings’ Protests Planned Nationwide Against Trump

“On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people,” reads the main page on the No Kings website.

“The protest movement has taken on new urgency with the government shutdown that began Oct. 1,” AFGE stated on Oct. 6. “Shutting down the government is another authoritarian power grab by this administration, which has threatened to lay off mass numbers of furloughed federal workers as part of an ongoing quest to gut federal programs and services the administration finds objectionable.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed the No Kings Day protests in an interview on Fox News on Friday, when he said he’s “a very patient guy, but I’ve had it with these people.”

“The theory we have right now [is] they have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for Oct. 18 on the National Mall,” Johnson said. “It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and the antifa people, they’re all coming out.”

On Thursday, actor Robert De Niro called on Americans to take part in the upcoming No Kings Day, referring to the American Revolution as the “original No Kings.”

“We’ve had two and a half centuries of democracy since then, often challenging, sometimes messy, always essential,” De Niro said in a video shared on Indivisible’s Instagram page. “And we fought in two world wars to preserve it. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away, King Donald I. F‑‑‑ that!”