{"id":241445,"date":"2026-03-29T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:12:10","slug":"thousands-of-no-kings-protesters-rally-against-trump-in-long-beach-millions-expected-across-the-u-s-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241445\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of No Kings protesters rally against Trump in Long Beach. Millions expected across the U.S. \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Large crowds of demonstrators lined Ocean Boulevard and then marched through the heart of downtown Long Beach on Saturday afternoon, joining a nationwide protest movement against President Donald Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n

They chanted \u201cPeople united, won\u2019t be divided,\u201d and waved signs with slogans like \u201cimpeach the mad king\u201d and \u201cICE out!\u201d As the rally began, police estimated at least 500 people already filled the sidewalks on both sides of Ocean near Temple Avenue, and that number soon swelled into the thousands \u2014 spilling into Bluff Park and Bixby Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to send a message to Trump that we don\u2019t like what he\u2019s doing. We hate what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s ruining the country,\u201d protester Ruth Chao said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nick Bell grabs a sign for No Kings Day, where protesters challenged the Trump administration\u2019s policies in Long Beach, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez<\/p>\n

\"\"An art piece by Pat Alviso is displayed during a No Kings protest, symbolizing children killed in Tehran, Iran, with shoes left behind in Long Beach on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez.<\/p>\n

Others said Trump\u2019s immigration raids motivated them to show up to \u201cmake sure that people are not being abducted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration is disregarding law, the Constitution,\u201d Vivian Shimoyama said.<\/p>\n

Organizers of Saturday\u2019s \u201cNo Kings\u201d\u00a0rallies across the country<\/a> predicted that the protests could add up to one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. Organizers say\u00a0more than 3,100 events<\/a>\u00a0have been registered in all 50 states, with more than 9 million people expected to participate.<\/p>\n

\"\"Amber Guido \u2014 dressed as the Statue of Liberty \u2014 holds a plastic head of President Donald Trump during the No Kings protest in Long Beach on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez<\/p>\n

\"\"Jeorn Gann used a bubble device to protest during the No Kings Day rally along Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez<\/p>\n

In Washington, hundreds of marchers moved through the streets, past the Lincoln Memorial and into the National Mall, holding signs that read \u201cPut down the crown, clown\u201d and \u201cRegime change begins at home.\u201d Demonstrators rang bells, played drums and chanted \u201cNo kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement actions, particularly in Minnesota, were just one item on a long list of protesters\u2019 grievances that also included the war in Iran and the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0rollback of transgender rights.<\/a><\/p>\n

In New York City, Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, described Trump as the nation\u2019s \u201cBully in Chief\u201d and said Minneapolis residents \u201cforced the wannabe king to withdraw his shock troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Protesters march on Ocean Boulevard during the No Kings Day rally in Long Beach on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez.<\/p>\n

\"\"Protesters wait by a stop sign on Ocean Blvd during the No Kings Day rally as they march through downtown Long Beach on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Photo by Justin Enriquez.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want us all to be afraid to protest,\u201d she said during a news conference. \u201cThey want us to be afraid that there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop them. But you know what? They are wrong \u2014 dead wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

GOP official calls events \u2018Hate America Rallies\u2019<\/p>\n

The White House dismissed the rallies. Spokesperson Abigail Jackson described the protests as the product of \u201cleftist funding networks\u201d with little real public support.<\/p>\n

Jackson said in a statement that the \u201conly people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The National Republican Congressional Committee was also sharply critical.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese Hate America Rallies are where the far-left\u2019s most violent, deranged fantasies get a microphone,\u201d said Maureen O\u2019Toole, spokesperson for the NRCC.<\/p>\n

Organizers say main event is at the Minnesota Capitol<\/p>\n

Organizers have designated the rally at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul as the national flagship event,\u00a0in recognition<\/a>\u00a0of how the state where\u00a0federal agents fatally shot two people<\/a>\u00a0who were monitoring Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown became an epicenter of resistance.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>People take part in a \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest Saturday, March 28, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. AP Photo by Joe Scheller.<\/p>\n

Headlining that observance was\u00a0Bruce Springsteen,<\/a>\u00a0performing\u00a0\u201cStreets of Minneapolis,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which he wrote in response to the deaths of\u00a0Renee Good<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Pretti,<\/a>\u00a0and in tribute to the thousands of Minnesotans who took to the streets over the winter. Springsteen\u2019s\u00a0Land of Hope & Dreams<\/a>\u00a0American Tour, which has a \u201cNo Kings\u201d theme, kicks off Tuesday in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Minnesota organizers have told state officials they expect 100,000 people could converge on the Capitol grounds, where last June\u2019s event drew an estimated 80,000 people.<\/p>\n

The St. Paul rally was also set to feature singer\u00a0Joan Baez<\/a>, actor\u00a0Jane Fonda,<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u00a0and a long list of other activists, labor leaders and elected officials.<\/p>\n

Rallies to be held across the U.S. and in Europe<\/p>\n

Rallies were also planned in more than a dozen other countries, from Europe to Latin America to Australia, Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a group spearheading the events, said in an interview. Countries with constitutional monarchies call the protests \u201cNo Tyrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For those unable to attend in person, another activist group, Stand Up For Science, hosted a \u201cvirtual and accessible\u201d event online.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning in Paris, several hundred people, mostly Americans living in France, along with French labor unions and human rights organizations, gathered at the Bastille.<\/p>\n

\u201cI protest all of Trump\u2019s illegal, immoral, reckless, and feckless, endless wars,\u201d Ada Shen, the Paris No Kings organizer, said.<\/p>\n

In Rome, thousands of people marched with defiant chants aimed at Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose right-wing government saw\u00a0its referendum for streamlining Italy\u2019s judiciary<\/a>\u00a0badly fail earlier this week amid criticism that it was a threat to the courts\u2019 independence. Protesters waved banners protesting the Israeli and US attacks on Iran, calling for \u201cA world free from wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

In London, people protesting the war in Iran held banners that said, \u201cStop the far right\u201d and \u201cStand up to Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers expect this to be larger than other \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests<\/p>\n

U.S. organizers told reporters in an online news conference Thursday that they expect Saturday\u2019s protests to be larger than the first two rounds of No Kings rallies, which they estimate drew more than 5 million people\u00a0in June<\/a>\u00a0and more than 7 million\u00a0in October.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Demonstrators rally near the Lincoln Memorial during the No Kings protest in Washington, Saturday, March 28, 2026. AP Photo by Allison Robbert.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of the RSVPs have come from outside of major urban centers, Greenberg said, listing registration surges in conservative-leaning states like Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, South Dakota and Louisiana, as well in competitive suburban areas of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration\u2019s actions are angering not just Democratic voters or folks in big blue city centers \u2014 they are crossing a line for people in\u00a0red and rural areas, in the suburbs,<\/a>\u00a0all over the country,\u201d said Leah Greenberg, the other co-executive director of Indivisible.<\/p>\n

Long Beach Post photographer Justin Enriquez, Associated Press videojournalist Nicholas Garriga in Paris and Associated Press reporters Colleen Berry in Milan, Italy; John Hanna, in Topeka, Kansas, and Todd Richmond, in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large crowds of demonstrators lined Ocean Boulevard and then marched through the heart of downtown Long Beach on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-241445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}