Anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies pop up in thousands of US cities

Demonstrators against United States President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policy, war against Iran, and other issues took to the streets across the country Saturday, as part of the third round of the "No Kings" rallies. 

Over 3,200 events had been planned across the country, including all 50 states, as the result of the two previous nationwide rallies, which drew millions of people. 

Large rallies were held across the country, including New York, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Washington, but two-thirds of the No Kings events were being held outside of large cities, a nearly 40 percent increase from the first mobilization of the movement last June. 

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In Minnesota, a focal point of President Donald Trump’s aggressive policy against illegal immigrants, a massive rally of people was held outside the capitol building in Saint Paul. Many of the demonstrators held posters bearing photographs of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, American citizens who were gunned down by immigration officers this year.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2024 election, told the audience, "You are the heart and soul of everything good in America, and it’s because you have stood up to Trump and stood up to his policies."

"They call us radicals," Walz said. "You’re damn right we’ve been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy, and radicalized to do all we can to oppose authoritarianism."

Bernie Sanders, a US Senator from Vermont and a Trump critic who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, attended the rally in Minnesota. Rock star Bruce Springsteen performed his song "Streets of Minneapolis," a ballad criticizing Trump’s immigration policies and lamenting the death of Good and Pretti.