Photos of anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations across the US
Photos of anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations across the US
Demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas across the U.S. to protest against President Donald Trump.
I love seeing American flags. The pro-democracy crowd needs to take that back from the fascists and nationalists.
Yes. It needs to be taken back. I've been thinking things like a large group of protesters saying the pledge of allegiance would be quite impactful as to who's on the other side.
Being arrested at a protest? Yell the pledge. See how they try to spin that.
The don’t need to spin anymore. They simply won’t show that footage to their viewers.
I hosted a German exchange student in 2006. She, along with the other Germans, were aghast when they saw us all stand for the pledge to the flag in homeroom every morning. They explained that they were (rightly) taught that this kind of behavior is the precursor to horrible, horrible things.
Yes - I've been doing this myself for a few years now. The anti-demicracy crowd doesn't deserve the flag or other American paraphernalia.
No thank you, the nationalists can keep their star-spangled rag. The "American ideal" always represented a settler-colonial project. Racism, classism, slavery, capitalism, conquest, and genocide are all built into the "American ideal" just as much as its nonideal implementations in the US government.
Whatever modes of living come after America needs to be a clean break from its horrific legacy. America in all its forms is holding us back.
There were a lot of them today!
One interesting thing at my local one in southern California: several people were waving large state flags. Lots of American flags as well, but I thought the state flags were interesting.
Totally in agreement, and I've left comments here before saying that the left needs to do as much. Maga got it in their heads that they're the "true" Americans. The silent majority. They're ignorant, and seeing all those stars and stripes in the crowds I think really drives down that point "No, we are real Americans, and we're fucking fed up". Compare these photos to the Jan 6 photos, which crowd looks like the real Americans?
I love that people are protesting, but the whole "no kings" thing? Really missing the fascist forest for the orange tree.
Is Trump a fascist wannabe dictator? Yes.
Is he a tumor who is killing American democracy? Yes.
He's not doing it alone, though, he didn't pop up out of nowhere, and the underlying cancers that made his regime possible won't just magically vanish when he hopefully succumbs to almost 80 years of bad diet and almost no exercise within the next couple of years.
The GOP is a fascist party enabled by an effective disinformation machine creating not just a cult of personality around Trump himself, but also a cult of hate that is as united by hostility towards The Others as much as their adoration of the Mango Mussolini.
Unless the DNC leadership and the protest organizers step up their messaging and starts listening to and representing the ignored third of the country to the Left of Ronald Reagan and the Cheneys, fascism won't go away when the abomination currently infesting the oval office finally croaks.
No one is glossing over that.
People need a face for an enemy. Nebulous constructs will not focus anger.
People need to be focused, that's what this does
No one is glossing over that.
That's just flat out false. The Dem leadership is still bending over backwards to make bipartisan deals with fascists who don't negotiate in good faith and their messaging is all about messaging to almost-Trumpers about how HE is bad while not addressing the underlying problems. Some of which the Dems themselves are partly to blame for.
People need a face for an enemy
Yeah, that worked SUPER well when they lost to the most unqualified and personally repulsive person to ever run for president TWICE and only BARELY beat him while he was actively ignoring an ongoing pandemic 🙄
Nebulous constructs will not focus anger.
There's nothing "nebulous" about concentration camps, systemic discrimination, complete subservience to a madman, and specific policy that is ruinous to regular people while further enriching the already extremely rich and powerful.
There's SO much more than only Trump to focus on for the Dem leadership, which would be MUCH more effective in appealing to the actual concerns of regular people and thus increasing voter participation, which would doom the GOP to obscurity in a few cycles if done right.
I love that people are protesting, but why isn't it perfect and exactly how I want them to do it?
If you went to one of them, you'd see that they're not just focusing on him.
People out here complaining about these protests like it's literally their job. Suspect.
You can make a little sign with whatever super important issue on it that you like. People did that. People understood that “No Kings” includes all the issues that come with being a king -or dictator.
But the most important thing people did was show the fuck up.
Just like with voting, a protest doesn’t do anything unless people show the fuck up.
And just like with voting, there are loud, persistent voices online that bemoan doing anything at all because it just isn’t perfect enough for them.
And you know what? It will never be perfect enough for those people. The real reason they complain is not about the level of perfection in the “messaging”. It’s that they are lazy shits. Or lazy shills.
It’s both human nature and the nature of protest. There’s a set theme or target and you rally around in. Protests aren’t actually places for nuisanced conversations about the specificities of who, what and where the problem is, they are ground swells to inspire, uplift and fight for change, it’s explicitly a “big picture” event, it’s not a discussion forum
Looks familiar. Philadelphia on No Kings Day June 14, 2025:
I don't trust cops, or most people, with sleeves of tattoos.
or most people, with sleeves of tattoos.
Eh? That's pretty ignorant, gotta say.
I don't trust cops
, or most people, with sleeves of tattoos.FTFY. ACAB. Nothing wrong with tattoo sleeves.
I know some really good people with full sleeves. It's just avatar customization broski.
I don’t trust cops
, or most people, with sleeves of tattoos.Lemme just fix that a little bit.
How else are those guys supposed to cobble together a personality?
This is what got you where you are. Fucking idiots can't see other people as people instead of their own discrimination.
Anyone else tear up or cry a little looking at these or am I just a big squishy baby? I have so many feelings looking at these, inspired, scared, even sometimes amused even if that’s followed immediacy disgust like the hotdog man photo, so many more feelings, feeling pretty proud of us too.
Love the creativity on those messages! Wow!
Some pics I saw on online :3 Love You All!!!I really wish these protest signs had clear demands on them rather than comedic slogans.
Also that "if Kamala were president we'd be at brunch" sign encapsulates everything that pisses me off about liberals.
there are clear demands, cholesterol is specifically called out for not doing what it should.
I'm honestly surprised Trump didn't send the military to shoot and kill the protesters
Telling the military to shoot at their own friends and family is a great way to get a military coup
true, but i'm still surprised that he didn't order it.
We shall overcomb 🤣
