No Kings, Trump and protests
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As Republican leaders attempt to cast the nationwide “No Kings” protests planned for Saturday as anti-American rallies, organizers are pushing back and say that they have spent weeks preparing demonstrators to remain calm,
Some prominent liberals are urging their followers to come out on Saturday but to take care not to provide any pretext for retaliation.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem chose Florida as the venue to mark nine months of mass deportation, the central policy agenda of Trump’s second term. She held a news briefing in the Sarasota-Bradenton area Monday morning, where she touted 480,000 deportations to date.
In the SNL version, Trump praised the protests, claiming they were “Yes, King” marches celebrating Trump’s decision Friday to commute the sentence of George Santos, a disgraced former Republican congressman who was serving a seven-year federal prison term for defrauding voters among other crimes.
Jon Stewart broke down the "No Kings" protests on 'The Daily Show,' calling Donald Trump the "imitation crab Of kings."
Protesters turned out at roughly 2,700 rallies around the country to celebrate free speech and protest many of the Trump administration's actions.