Crowds from angry people from the way President Donald Trump runs the country a march and gathered in dozens of American cities on Saturday in the largest day of demonstrations so far through an opposition movement that tries to restore its momentum after the shock of the first weeks of the Republicans in his position.
What is called hands! The demonstrations have been organized for more than 1,200 sites in all fifty states by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, trade unions, LBGTQ+ preachers and old warriors. Peaceful gatherings seemed, with no immediate reports on arrests.
From the National Trade Center and the center of Manhattan to the joint and multiple Capitol building in Boston, thousands of demonstrators attacked Trump’s actions and billionaire Elon Musk to reduce the size of the government, economy, immigration and human rights. In Seattle, with the city’s famous space needle, the demonstrators carried signs with slogans such as “oligarchy fighting”.
The demonstrators expressed their anger at the administration’s movements to launch thousands of federal workers, field offices for social security management, effectively close the agencies, migrants to traffic, expand the scope of protection for transgender individuals and reduce funding for health programs.
Musk, Trump’s Tesla and Spacex and X social media consultant, played a major role in reducing its size as head of the newly created government efficiency. He says it provides taxpayers for billions of dollars.
Kelly Robinson, head of the Human Rights Defense Group, criticized the management of the management of the LBGTQ community in the gathering at the National Commercial Center, where Democratic members of Congress also took the stage.
“The attacks we see, they are not only political. They are all personality,” Robinson said. “They are trying to ban our books, and they reduce the financing of HIV prevention, and they criminalize our doctors, our teachers, our families and our lives.”
“We do not want America,” Robinson added.
In Boston, the demonstrators have canceled signs such as “the hands of our democracy” and “our hands from our social guarantee.”
Mayor Michel Wu said that she does not want her children and others to live in a world where threats and intimidation are government tactics and values such as diversity and equality.
Wu said: “I refuse to accept that they could grow up in a world in which immigrants are assumed like their grandmother and found them automatically that they are criminals.”
Roger Broom, 66, was retired from Delaweer County, Ohio, one of the hundreds who gathered in Columbus. He said he used to be a Republican Reagan, but was suspended by Trump.
Boom said: “He is tearing this country.” “It is just an administration of grievances.”
Hundreds of people demonstrated in the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a few miles away from the Trump Golf Stadium in Jupiter, where he spent the morning in the club’s championship. People lined up on both sides of PGA Drive, and encouraged cars to provide slogans against Trump.
“They need to keep their hands away from our social guarantee,” said Artcher Moran of Port Saint Lucy, Florida.
“The list of what they need to keep their hands is very long,” Moran said. “It is amazing when these protests have occurred since he took office.”
The president planned to go to golf again on Sunday, according to the White House.
When asked about the protests, the White House said in a statement that “President Trump’s position is clear: It will always protect social security, medical care and medical aid to eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the position of Democrats gives social security and the advantages of medical care for illegal foreigners, which will be rid of these programs and crush the Americans.”
Activists have organized demonstrations at the level of the country against Trump and have caught several times since Trump returned to his post. But before Saturday, the opposition movement did not yet produce a mass mobilization such as women’s march in 2017, which brought thousands of women to Washington after the first opening of Trump, or the demonstrations of blacks that erupted in multiple cities after the death of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis in 2020.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the demonstrators said they support a variety of reasons, from social security and education to the reproductive rights of migration and immigration.
“Regardless of your party, regardless of what you voted in favor of it, what is happening today is what is happening today,” said Brett Castillo, 35, from Charlotte. “It is disgusting, and as our current system may be, the way the current administration is about trying to fix things – it’s not a way to do this. They do not listen to people.”
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Associated Press Julie Car Smith in Columbus, Ohio, Fatima Hussein in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Eric Ferdosko in Charlotte, North Carolina.