{"id":9771,"date":"2025-10-20T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9771\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:21:11","slug":"over-100000-new-yorkers-denounce-trump-at-local-no-kings-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9771\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100,000 New Yorkers Denounce Trump at Local \u201cNo Kings\u201d Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Holding signs like \u201cEmpires don\u2019t age well\u201d and \u201cAnne Frank wrote about this in her diary,\u201d roughly 100,000<\/a> New Yorkers took to the streets for local \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests Oct. 18, speaking out against what they labeled a corrupt inhumane authoritarian presidential administration of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump allies, in turn, labeled the protests \u201chate America rallies\u201d and spread<\/a> unfounded claims that the crowds were full of terrorists and members of the far-left Antifa movement. The NYPD reported no arrests on the day.<\/p>\n

The largest crowd in New York gathered at 11 a.m. in Times Square and made their way down Seventh Ave. and eastward to Union Square Park, a traditional protest spot for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Elderly people bore American flags, hipsters carried satchels and film cameras, and tourists looked on in amazement. Chants of \u201cThis is what democracy looks like!\u201d rippled down the street.<\/p>\n

Leese Walker marched along with two members of her performance ensemble, Strike Anywhere. The trio wore white masks and boxy white costumes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re milk cartons,\u201d Walker explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve come back from the \u201990s, because there\u2019s just too many people missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sides of the costumes bore the names of different New York residents who had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

ICE detentions were at the forefront of many New Yorkers\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people being abducted in the streets,\u201d a young woman who identified herself as Brie D. said. \u201cHuman rights are going down the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brie wore a rainbow-colored New York Mets shirt and hat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was going to wear a Sonic the Hedgehog costume, but my partner talked me out of it,\u201d she said. \u201cI just wore all of the most obviously queer stuff I had in my closet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s crowd appeared to be more youthful than previous No Kings protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see so many people of my generation,\u201d 24-year-old Mercury Fogerson said.<\/p>\n

Fogerson was wearing an inflatable Garfield costume and brandishing a sign reading \u201cLess Hate, More Lasagna.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoy is a form of resistance,\u201d Fogerson said. \u201cThey want us to be miserable, they want us to be tired. I am not tired, I am not miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fashion Institute of Technology students Julia Mittler and Isabella Goblet arrived at the protest together. Mittler had attended a No Kings protest in June in upstate New York; Saturday\u2019s march, she said, was far livelier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one had a lot of elderly people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

High school freshman Sadie Geogerian, demonstrating with the Fourth Universalist Society, stood atop a mailbox, leading the passing crowd in a variety of chants.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get up high so they can see you,\u201d he said, hopping off the mailbox. \u201cI want to be able to chant, and when they\u2019re chanting with you, it\u2019s a good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geogerian said he\u2019d seen some Trump supporters make obscene gestures at him from the sidewalk, but hadn\u2019t paid them any mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been good vibes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

84-year old Judith Rabinor marched with fellow Upper West Side residents Barbara Simon and Nancy Good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are all people who want to stand up for the right thing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt makes me feel young.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rabinor said she had attended demonstrations dating back to Vietnam. Despite enjoying the energy of the day, she expressed fear for the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are we gonna do if Trump brings the troops in here?\u201d she said. \u201cI love [mayoral favorite Zohran] Mamdani, but I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s strong enough to fight him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While none of the city\u2019s three top mayoral candidates appeared to attend a No Kings protest on Saturday, other noteworthy city officials did march, such as city comptroller Brad Lander<\/a> and Upper West Side council member Gale Brewer.<\/p>\n

At 3:27, NYPD announced<\/a> that the majority of protestors had dispersed and that zero protest-related arrests had been made. They estimated the crows at over 100,000.<\/p>\n

Jess Burke, a volunteer with No Kings, spent her day managing a barricade and preventing cars from entering the protest area.<\/p>\n

Burke said it was the first No Kings protest she had attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a bit to the left of the organizers… I\u2019m more DSA,\u201d she said, referring to the Democratic Socialists of America. \u201cBut I think everyone needs to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump appeared to take the protests personally.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, Trump uploaded<\/a> an AI-generated video to social media. The video portrayed the president as a crown-wearing fighter pilot dropping excrement on demonstrators.<\/p>\n