Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump

Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

.They came out in defense of national parks and small businesses, public education and health care for veterans, abortion rights and fair elections. They marched against tariffs and oligarchs, dark money and fascism, the deportation of legal immigrants and the Department of Government Efficiency.

Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump’s agenda. Rallies were planned in all 50 states, and images posted on social media showed dense crowds in places as diverse as St. Augustine, Fla.; Salt Lake City and rainy Frankfort, Ky.

Pouring rain, 43 degrees, biting wind, and people are still here in Albany in the thousands,” said Ron Marz, a comic book writer who posted a photo of the crowd at the New York State Capitol on X.

While crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, organizers said that more than 600,000 people had signed up to participate and that events also took place in U.S. territories and a dozen locations across the globe.

On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the protest stretched for nearly 20 blocks. In Chicago, thousands flooded Daley Plaza and adjacent streets, while, in the nation’s capital, tens of thousands surrounded the Washington Monument. In Atlanta, the police estimated the crowd marching to the gold-domed statehouse at over 20,000.

Mr. Trump, who was playing golf in Florida on Saturday, appeared to be largely ignoring the protests. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Some of the demonstrators waved American flags, occasionally turned upside down to signal distress. Many, especially federal workers and college students, did not want to speak on the record for fear of retaliation. Right-wing slogans like “Stop the Steal” were co-opted in defense of Social Security, medical care and cancer research..

美國各地迎來總統川普發布各國的對等關稅後的第1個週末，包括美國民主黨議員奧馬爾、格林等，有超過5000人聚集在華盛頓國家廣場，反對川普的關稅政策。

維吉尼亞州抗議民眾赫森說：「為什麼我會說『川普衰退』，因為基本上就是股市崩盤、經濟即將崩潰，它已經崩潰了。這一切都是川普的錯，源自於他的行為、他的愚蠢。」

不只華盛頓特區，美國各州包括芝加哥、紐約等地，都有民眾聚集示威遊行，民眾對川普返回白宮後致力縮減聯邦政府規模，並向友好國家發動貿易戰，造成股市暴跌感到不滿。

示威民眾批評川普和馬斯克是奪權行動的主導者，也對科學與事實進行破壞。

而抗議活動甚至延燒到英法德、葡萄牙與印度等海外國家，也成了川普重返白宮以來，全球規模最大的抗議活動。

法國民眾伊莉莎白文森說道，「像這種荒唐的事情，把盟友變成了敵人，我指的是在二戰中，那是真正解放，我們是美國的盟友，但我們現在是美國的盟友嗎？」“I’m tariffied. Are you?” one placard read. Global financial markets tumbled this week at Mr. Trump’s announcement of tariff increases, which many economists warned would raise prices for U.S. consumers. Republicans in Congress wrestled over budget proposals that included cuts to Medicaid and SNAP food benefits.

Rob Ahlrichs, a Baltimore resident who attended the protest in Washington with his two sons and his wife, Katherine Sterner, put out a sign with a graph depicting stock market indexes plummeting that read, “Did you vote for this?”

In Chicago, Marilyn Finner, 65, who works in customer service, said she had never attended a protest but that she felt compelled to take part on Saturday because she was concerned about threats to retirement benefits..