have not changed<\/a> significantly. Republican leaders denounced the protests, blaming them for prolonging the government shutdown and calling the event the \u201chate America rally.\u201d<\/p>\nMr. Trump\u2019s political team trolled protesters on social media with AI-generated images of the president wearing a crown. When asked if the president had a comment on the demonstrations, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, gave a brief response in an email.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho cares?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The march in Chicago stretched over 22 blocks at one point.Credit…Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times<\/p>\n
Ms. Diaz, 39, was one of those who did. She said she heard about the demonstration on TikTok and knew immediately that she would attend. A claims adjuster employed by the federal government, she has not been paid since the shutdown but said she supported the position of Democratic politicians who were pushing to keep health care costs down. A mass protest, she said, could be encouraging to leaders pursuing that goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cProtesting is the only way to get our voices out,\u201d said Libby Smith, 17, who attended a rally in Pittsburgh. She said her plans to join the military after high school were deflated when Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, fired a string of women leaders and said he wanted women out of combat roles.<\/p>\n
Some 400 miles southwest in Richmond, Ky., where President Trump has handily won the past three general elections, protesters lined the sidewalk outside the local courthouse. A few drivers in passing cars jeered and shouted pro-Trump declarations, but others appeared to honk in support.<\/p>\n
Protesters gathered on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol in Boise on Saturday.Credit…Loren Elliott for The New York Times<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what democracy looks like!\u201d protesters chanted, led by a woman with a megaphone. \u201cNo kings, no kings, no kings in America!\u201d<\/p>\n
Protesters in Portland, Ore., where city and state leaders were fighting the president in court over his plans to deploy the National Guard there to address what he said was violence that was out of control, took part in three separate marches that eventually coalesced into one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are out today to show people that this is not a war zone,\u201d said Shawnathan Thibodeaux, 37, a middle school history teacher who attended with his wife and 4-year-old son. \u201cThe ultimate goal of describing this city that way is terrifying. We are peaceful and silly and still Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around the country, strangers met and swapped their long lists of grievances with one another: the government shutdown, the tariffs, Mr. Trump\u2019s attacks on higher education, the pressure he has placed on the Justice Department to prosecute political enemies, the erosion of women\u2019s rights, and the disbanding of D.E.I. programs.<\/p>\n
Although some rallies saw small groups of counterprotesters and a police presence, the mood at most was upbeat and festive. At a demonstration in Washington, children and families were prominent. (Hours after a large rally ended in Los Angeles, about 100 protesters occupied an intersection before police officers in riot gear dispersed the crowd, the police said.)<\/p>\n
In San Francisco, a crowd surrounded by farmers market vendors chanted, \u201cKeep calm, keep marching!\u201d At Grant Park in Chicago, thousands of attendees roared in applause as speakers took to the stage, including Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who urged demonstrators to reject the idea of a government with unlimited power.<\/p>\n
People wrote messages on a banner of the preamble of the Constitution outside of the Department of Labor in Washington.Credit…Jason Andrew for The New York Times<\/p>\n
Marilyn Ricken, 80, was in the crowd, having arrived with three friends, two of whom relied on walkers to move around.<\/p>\n
Ms. Ricken, a retired insurance agent, had been at the No Kings rally in June but said Saturday\u2019s event came with a deeper sense of urgency. \u201cThis is how change happens,\u201d she said as nearby protesters signed their names at the bottom of a large replica of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
In a show of solidarity, protesters around the world held demonstrations outside U.S. embassies, consulates or at town squares, including in Prague, Vienna and Malmo, Sweden.<\/p>\n
In Paris, protesters raised placards denouncing Mr. Trump. In Germany, rallies were planned in four different cities, including one outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In countries with long-established monarchies, like Britain and Spain, protesters gathered under the slogan \u201cNo Tyrants.\u201d In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, many carried colorful signs rebuking ICE.<\/p>\n
The forcefulness of Mr. Trump\u2019s second term may have galvanized protesters, said Jeremy Pressman, a political science professor who co-directs the Crowd Counting Consortium, a joint project of the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intensity of the action is going to feed into the intensity of the counteraction or counterprotest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Many protesters said they were heartened by meeting peers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou feel like your voice isn\u2019t that loud,\u201d said Michael Flanagan, 46, a medical administrator who attended a rally in Memphis, where the National Guard was recently deployed. \u201cBut I\u2019ve never seen this level of enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n
A crowd marching through downtown Portland, Ore.Credit…Jordan Gale for The New York Times<\/p>\n
In Manhattan, two siblings, Joyce Pavento, 75, of Marlborough, Mass., and Diane Hanson, 78, of Narragansett, R.I., were similarly encouraged, to a degree. They had felt compelled to travel to New York City for the protest.<\/p>\n
Ms. Pavento said she enjoyed the camaraderie of like-minded people but wondered if their participation made any difference in the end.<\/p>\n
Yet despite pessimism and fears, the sisters agreed they couldn\u2019t tolerate staying home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat choice do we have?\u201d Ms. Pavento asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all we\u2019ve got,\u201d Ms. Hanson said.<\/p>\n
Reporting was contributed by Pranav Baskar from New York; Robert Chiarito and Leigh Giangreco from Chicago; Lynsey Chutel from London; Miles Cohen from Newark, N.J.; Sheryl Gay Stolberg from Shepherdstown, W.Va., Tricia Fulks Kelley from Richmond, Ky.; Matt Furber from Boise, Idaho; Anna Griffin from Portland, Ore.; Sean Keenan from Atlanta; Coral Murphy Marcos from San Francisco; Orlando Mayorqu\u00edn from Los Angeles; Tyler Pager and Darren Sands from Washington; Nate Schweber from Manhattan; Katharine Q. Seelye from Philadelphia; Ben Stanley from Memphis; Makaelah Walters from Brooklyn; Aaron West in Salem, Ore.; Billy Witz in Pittsburgh and Benjamin Wood from Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were teachers and lawyers, military veterans and fired government employees. Children and grandmothers, students and retirees. Arriving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1452,859,7677,7676,9,24,63,7678,855,3277,1069,1876],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-donald-j","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-javier","tag-milei","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-presidential-medal-of-freedom","tag-senate","tag-shutdowns-institutional","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Large Protests Flood Streets to Denounce TrumpKnown as No Kings Day, the demonstrations built off a similar event in June.CreditCredit…Jon Cherry for The New York Times<\/p>\n