{"id":177768,"date":"2026-03-27T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:16:09","slug":"massive-crowd-at-nyc-no-kings-march-expected-saturday-as-protesters-set-to-slam-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177768\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive crowd at NYC No Kings march expected Saturday as protesters set to slam Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

A massive crowd is expected to turn out for Saturday\u2019s No Kings protest, last year\u2019s versions of which<\/a> saw tens of thousands march against the Trump administration and its right-wing, anti-immigrant policies.<\/p>\n

In addition to the federal immigration crackdown, organizers of this year\u2019s march are rallying New Yorkers against deep cuts to Medicaid and public education, and the \u201congoing consolidation of executive power\u201d by the Trump administration. Concern over the month-old war against the Iranian regime will also be fueling protesters\u2019 ire.<\/p>\n

Protesters will gather at Columbus Circle around noon, where they\u2019ll be joined by politicians, including New York State Attorney General Letitia James, noted activists, such as the Rev. Al Sharpton, and movie star Robert De Niro, whose outspoken opposition to the president, whom he has called \u201can idiot,\u201d provoked Trump to respond last month by calling the actor \u201clow IQ.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

After stepping off from Columbus Circle, the marchers will head east along W. 59th St., then turn south onto Seventh Ave. From there, the protesters, led by faith-based choral and activist groups, will continue heading downtown through Times Square to E. 34th St., singing songs of resistance, before dispersing.<\/p>\n

The NYPD declined to share its security plan for managing the huge crowds expected Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be an adequate security deployment,\u201d an NYPD spokesman told the Daily News in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

While the most recent No Kings protest held amid the frigid cold in January drew what the NYPD estimated as about 2,000 people<\/a>, an estimated 100,000 people swelled<\/a> a No Kings march on a warm day last October, while roughly 50,000 people endured rain<\/a> to march in the city\u2019s first No Kings protest held last June.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m appalled at what\u2019s going on in this country. I can\u2019t believe it,\u201d a 73-year-old protester, who identified herself as Lisa, told the Daily News at the October protest. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m living in Nazi Germany. I feel like I\u2019m in a science-fiction movie \u2014 and nobody\u2019s doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

While 100 people were arrested at the city\u2019s inaugural No Kings protest, the NYPD said no arrests were made in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests,\u201d the department posted on X<\/a> after last fall\u2019s march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive crowd is expected to turn out for Saturday\u2019s No Kings protest, last year\u2019s versions of which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-177768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}