‘No Kings’ protests live: Organizers say nearly 7 million marched in rallies

No Kings demonstrations on the West Coast are still going strong.

Here’s a video of the crowd in San Francisco, courtesy of our reporter Io Dodds.

Nearly 7 million demonstrators in small towns and cities across the country showed up for the “No Kings” protests to rally against Donald Trump’s presidency, according to organizers.

The president declared he was “not a king” on Fox News Friday, but that didn’t prevent millions of rally-goers in more than 2,500 locations across the U.S. protesting the second Trump administration. Saturday’s event marked the third mass mobilization since Trump reclaimed the White House last year.

The event marked one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, surpassing the more than 5 million demonstrators who turned up to the first iteration of “No Kings” protests in June, organizers said.

“Today, millions of people showed that we, the people, will not be silenced,” Deirdre Schifeling, chief political and advocacy officer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.

Protesters at rallies across the country shouted a common refrain:“Hey hey! Ho ho! Donald Trump has got to go!” Inflatable suits, Revolutionary War references, and posters depicting Trump in a crown were ubiquitous.

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Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is one of numerous top Republicans who have dismissed today’s No Kings protests.

In an X post on Saturday, Hawley called the millions of participants “Leftist goons.”

Elsewhere, Hawley issued a scorching condemnation of the protests, seeming to equate those taking part in the demonstrations with Democrats who were previously in power.

“They now say don’t want a king?” Hawley told Fox News. “They just spent the last four years behaving like tyrants.”

“These were the people who weaponized the Justice Department,” he continued, “who tried to rig an election by keeping Donald Trump off the ballot; who tapped the phones of U.S. senators they didn’t like, including me; who turned the FBI against parents at school board meetings; and now they say they don’t want a king? Give me a break. They don’t believe in democracy. They believe in their own power.”

Here’s what one of the many No Kings protests taking place across the country looked like on the ground, according to our San Francisco-based reported Io Dodds.

The No Kings march in San Francisco just started moving, preceded by a police escort and a protester blowing a bugle. It’s moving down the city’s central canyon of Market Street from the Ferry Building towards the Civic Center.

Notably, there is a LOT of patriotic and Revolutionary War imagery of the kind that was once more associated with the conservative Tea Party movement: eagles, flags, 1776.

Stay tuned for updates on how the protests are unfolding.

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader, showed up alongside a videographer to the Miami “No Kings” protests, the Miami Herald reported.

Tarrio was sentenced in 2023 in connection to the January 6 Capitol riot in 2021. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

“Walk away from the agitator,” organizers told the crowd using megaphones, the outlet reported. “Please do not engage with any outside agitators.”

“I support all these people, especially her with the bullhorn,” Tarrio said.

“These protestors are 100 percent expressing the same rights as during January 6,” said the person who was livestreaming Tarrio.

Millions gathered for nationwide protests to denounce President Donald Trump administration’s “authoritarianism” — and they came equipped with clever signs and eye-catching costumes.

In what is expected to be one of the largest peaceful protests in U.S. history, demonstrators in cities across the country — from San Francisco to Chicago to New York — marched in protest of what organizers described as the president’s “authoritarian power grabs.” The president insisted he’s “not a king” in a Friday interview with Fox News.

Saturday’s mass protests came four months after the first “No Kings” protests in June, which were largely peaceful and saw few arrests. Demonstrators evoked their frustration with the current state of the country through powerful signs and wardrobe choices.

NYPD says no arrests were made in connection to the ‘No Kings’ protests that reached all five boroughs in New York City Saturday.

“The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted,” NYPD said in a post on X Saturday afternoon.

“We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests.”

New York Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman, who represents parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan, joined demonstrators in New York City.

“America was founded by rejecting a king. We won’t kneel for another,” he wrote in a post on X.

California Governor Gavin Newsom urged demonstrators to protest “peacefully” against “the President’s authoritarian playbook.”