{"id":242243,"date":"2026-03-29T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/242243\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:54:12","slug":"no-kings-protests-draw-millions-nationwide-including-demonstration-in-fresno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/242243\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kings protests draw millions nationwide, including demonstration in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Millions of people across the United States took part in &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests Saturday, including demonstrators in Fresno, voicing opposition to Trump administration policies and the ongoing war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The nationwide protests were held one month after the start of the war. Among the criticisms raised by demonstrators was opposition to the administration&#8217;s actions involving Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t know how big it&#8217;s going to get. I mean, it could turn into a World War III. There are so many countries that are against this right now. It&#8217;s scary,&#8221; said Marci Bruyere, a protester in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators in the Central Valley were among an estimated 9 million Americans who participated in the movement nationwide, according to national organizers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Trump, meanwhile, has maintained his position on Iran and what he described as progress being made in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They are being decimated. They are talking. We are talking now. They want to make a deal. Very simply, our military is the greatest in the world by far. Iran is being decimated,&#8221; Trump told reporters in Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of people across the United States took part in &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests Saturday, including demonstrators in Fresno,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19440,112,114,113,19378,108740,108515,1519],"class_list":["post-242243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-demonstrators","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-iran","tag-marci-bruyere","tag-nationwide-protests","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242243","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=242243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}