Nationwide Leftist "Orchestrated" 50501 Trump protests Saturday were a massive embarrassment for Democrats — Predicted 11 million, turnout closer to 10,000. . . see for yourself!
by Emma Bowman and Juliana Kim, NPR.org
Protesters turned out to demonstrate against the Trump administration in cities across the U.S. on Saturday, with organizers hoping to seize on what they say is growing resistance to anti-democratic policies. (Editors Note: Their is no proof of "growing resistance" aslitterally ALL of the Protest have been ASTROTURF by Leftist Groups who are trying to prevent DOGE & Trump Stopping their theft of OUR Tax Dollars to fund their anti-American activities!)
Known as "50501", for "50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement", the demonstrations were intended to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War.
In Washington, D.C., hundreds of protesters gathered in Lafayette Square outside the White House on Saturday morning to voice their opposition to the Trump administration. Demonstrators cited a range of concerns, including the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the administration's moves to cut funding for research and higher education.
Heather Sarandos (C) from Baltimore holds up a sign while shouting during the anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Michelle Willis, a paraeducator from New Bedford, Mass., drove to D.C. on Friday with her two children.
" We have to speak out, we have to stand up and you have to keep people energized," she said.
Willis, who is concerned about funding cuts to education and mass deportations, said she has been to half a dozen protests since Trump took office. She plans to keep showing up.
People take part in a protest outside of New York Public Library.
In New York City, protesters railed against the deportations of immigrants as they marched from the New York Public Library toward Central Park past Trump Tower.
Marshall Green, a 61-year-old who joined the Manhattan protest, told The Associated Press that he was most concerned that Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a rarely used wartime law, by claiming the U.S. is at war with Venezuelan gangs.
"Congress should be stepping up and saying, 'No, we are not at war. You cannot use that,' " said Green, a resident of Morristown, N.J. "You cannot deport people without due process, and everyone in this country has the right to due process no matter what."
The Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the act.
At a rally Lexington, Ky., protesters calling for "no kings" demonstrated across the street from the federal courthouse.
David Karpf, an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University who studies political communication, says that "in normal times," having a bunch of different names and issues for protests might ordinarily weaken a movement.
But these times are unprecedented, he said. The blitz of controversial actions by the Trump administration week to week has resulted in a cascade of messaging from opponents.
"It's kind of OK to have another rally every weekend that has people who are complaining about Tesla and also people complaining about [cuts to] cancer research," Karpf said. "What they're all saying is not, 'Hey, political elites, we have this one simple demand.' It's more mass outrage saying: 'Nobody voted for this.' "
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