{"id":363114,"date":"2026-03-28T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:38:12","slug":"live-updates-demonstrators-across-the-us-rally-against-trump-in-no-kings-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363114\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Demonstrators across the US rally against Trump in \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8g8w001r3b6q42p0dqdo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            People starting to arrive at Grant Park in Chicago for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d event are bringing energy \u2014 and props.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001t3b6qwxm6s9yz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Scan across the lawn, and it\u2019s not hard to spot an inflatable baby version of President Donald Trump holding a sign. Inside is Riz Hortega, an Ottawa, Illinois, resident.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001u3b6qjn4wffuk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She said she wants the president to \u201cstep down.\u201d Hortega, who is Mexican, also said she believes ICE should be abolished.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001v3b6q3bp9l3wr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cMexicans have a place here. We\u2019ve been here for a long time, we\u2019ve proven that we\u2019re hard workers and that\u2019s all we\u2019re here to do,\u201d Hortega told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001w3b6qf0g66se0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Later this afternoon, there is expected to be a lineup of speakers and a DJ to keep the crowd energized. The crowd will then walk through the city and past Trump Tower.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001x3b6qektyuxpt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For Maria Isabel Trejo, this is her third \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest. She said people in Chicago want to make a difference.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a001y3b6qx20bsrxj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe message is he is a bad guy, the president is a bad person. ICE is brutalizing immigrants, even American citizens,\u201d Trejo said. She and her husband held signs that said, \u201cimpeach the felon\u201d and \u201cthere are power in numbers.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnam8n4a00203b6q1990jfld@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            If the United States has money to start a war with Iran, Trejo said, \u201cthen why don\u2019t we have enough money here to support the people, the American citizens?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People starting to arrive at Grant Park in Chicago for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d event are bringing energy \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-363114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}