For a second time this year, millions of protesters took to the streets across the nation on Oct. 18 to reject President Donald Trump and what demonstrators called an “authoritarian” administration. New York was no exception, with as many as 100,000 participating across the Five Boroughs, the NYPD says. No arrests were made.
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The protest was a direct response to Trump’s unprecedented moves in his second term in office to consolidate executive power by ignoring court orders and the Constitution, the weaponization of federal troops, a mass deportation agenda, and budget cuts to essential social services.
The central theme of the protests is to hammer home the message that the “president is not a king.”
“Trump isn’t just trying to rule like a king — he’s fusing corporate power with state power to entrench an oligarchy,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, in a statement. “But America doesn’t belong to billionaires or authoritarians. From the shop floor to city hall, working people are organizing to reclaim our democracy and build a government that serves all of us — not the ruling class.”
The initial No Kings Day protests took place June 14, the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump’s 79th birthday. It is unclear if future marches are planned.
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