‘Hey hey! Ho ho! Donald Trump has got to go!’ protesters across the country chanted

Nearly 7 million demonstrators in small towns and cities across the country showed up for No Kings protests to rally against Donald Trump’s presidency, according to organizers.

The president declared he was “not a king” on Fox News Friday, but that didn’t stop millions of rally-goers in more than 2,500 locations across the United States from protesting the second Trump administration.

Saturday’s event marked the third mass mobilization since Trump reclaimed the White House — and one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, surpassing the more than 5 million demonstrators who turned up to the first iteration of “No Kings” protests in June, organizers said.

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    The president declared he was “not a king”

    He also posted a video of himself as a king shitting diarrhea over Americans

    The president of the united states posted a video of him graphically shitting diarrhea onto Americans.

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    Yesterday I went into a small town near my town (my town is absolutely tiny; the next town over is pretty small but also a college town).

    There was a protest going on in the town square. There were a lot of really cool inflatable costumes because of that frog and EVERYONE was smiling and waving.

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    Aw, they really wanted to provoke us into widespread riots.

    Poor babies didn’t get what they wanted. Instead there are even more of us now. So sad.

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        This is why the strike needs to generalize to a workers and renters’ strike. Much easier to keep striking when you’re entire building is refusing to pay the rent.

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    7 million is a lot of people, but I doubt it’s enough to stop Trump.
    This is about 2.5% of the population, and if we say about 1 in 10 who sympathize actually went, a rule of thumb that works for many situations, that means the opposition to Trump is only 25%.

    I really really hope I’m wrong in this interpretation, so anyone with better knowledge on how these things work, pleas tell me I’m wrong.

    On a more positive note, I think this is the biggest turnout yet.

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      Just because people weren’t there doesn’t mean they’re not opposed to Trump. Some people had to work, and others have a valid fear of crowds or getting stuffed in an ICE, FBI, or National Guard van.

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        My son has major anxiety, so in order to not provoke it I have not gone despite wanting to. I am absolutely against Trump’s authoritarianism, but my son’s health and safety is more important to me right now.

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        Just because people weren’t there doesn’t mean they’re not opposed to Trump.

        I know, I estimated a ratio of 1 to 10 on that.