I’ll be attending my first protest march ever today!
You’re next, is the way that his supporters need to see this.
FYI-- here are some reader comments from the Washington Post article about the protests today. (Not posting a link–once bitten, twice shy.)
These protests are illegal if they didn’t get the approval of this administration. These people want to impede legitimate law enforcement. Here in WV, we support Our Leader President Trump! We hope He surges maximum enforcement including ICE agents to these protests to handle the dangerous and violent leftists. President Trump is trying to keep us safe and these people are putting us in harm’s way. This is a REPUBLICAN NATION and the American people elected President Trump to establish PERMANENT REPUBLICAN RULE! #MAGA
The leftist protests have little impact. The American people rejected illegal immigration, radical trans agenda, DEI, and all the rest of their agenda, in the last election. The fact that they can’t accept a moderate Republican President, is their problem. The Democrats need to moderate their radical positions, rather than march on the streets because Americans don’t accept those positions.
My bold. Moderate? Makes you wonder what an out-of-control president would look like? Oh, I know: Joe Biden. 
Literally nobody cares. Everyone knows the protest organizers are collecting paychecks to put on these performative protests and it has zero impact on anything, other than annoying local residents. These well-financed, astroturfed theatrical affairs with nothing original or substantive to say have been overdone for years and just fall flat today. The leftist billionaire boomers paying for it all are too out of touch to know it.
This reader ^^^ goes by the handle “Voiceofreason2025.”
The No Kings protests are for angry lonely people who want to validate their own anger with others. It serves no purpose except to show that they are against everything Trump supporters are for, so it means everything and nothing at the same time. Nothing new and no needle is moved.
Just a sampling from the 2,000+ comments (so far).
Umm… no. We don’t want a traitor in the White House. Angry, you bet, not lonely at all.
Hahaha. These people are idiots. He’s a traitor and felon trying to stay out of prison.
Is this person that crazy to think they are being paid to protest? Well, they probably voted for Trump, so it’s very possible.
Wait…you didn’t get your Soros check for being bussed in for the last Kings protest? You might want to follow up on that.
Slightly bigger turnout today. Still probably only 1000 people because we were only on the sidewalks of several blocks worth of concrete and were never more than a couple people deep.
Again, only 1 counter protestor. I saw them driving toward the protest as I was walking there, in a pickup bedecked with Trump paraphernalia, and then while I was walking back I saw them heading the exact same direction again. The simplest explanation for that was that they were counterprotesting but moving a mile or two down the road before turning around for plausible deniability. If they were moving the opposite way from the way they were at first, it would also be likely that they just happened to be Trump fans who were going back and forth on an errand.
I thing I noticed a large increase in was supportive honking. The previous protests reliably had supportive honks as the cars moved through at every change of signal, but only 1 or 2. It seemed like half the cars this time were beeping in support of us.
Coincidentally, there’s been an anti-populist march in London today (not quite the same objective, but in the same area):
Smallish crowd in Toronto today, guessing 350 to 500 people. The event was organized by Democrats Abroad, a group that works for voting rights for Americans living abroad, so I’d say maybe half of the crowd were U.S. citizens. It was nice to have a chance to chat with some of them as we ambled along the route. This was the first such protest my wife and I attended, next time we’re going to bring whisltes to blow rather than getting sore throats from chanting.
Just got back from purple (50/50 split) Reno. I’m no good at guessing and there hasn’t been an official estimate yet, but I’d say … 10,000? Good crowd. No counter-protests at all. It was a short march followed by a rally, and at one point we marched by police security cameras. One of the organizers said “OK, as we go by the cameras, give ‘em the finger.”
Just got back from one of my local march/protests. It’s hard to say numbers, because this time they kept most us moving along the 2 mile circuit, but at a guess it’s a somewhat lower turnout, though that may well be in part due to there being two more protests in the communities within a 30-60 mile radius than the last protest. Again, just a guess, but based on this being my third No Kings event here in town. A few photos, sorry, in imgur because my anti-tracker/privacy browser settings seems to react poorly with more widely usable options. 
[ Iran Away from the Epstein Files]
[When Two Paths Diverge, Don’t take the Psychopath]
[No Health Care For You Peasants, But a Ballroom For The Queen!]
[FUCK ICE - No human is illegal - Immigrants Make America Great]
Roughly 1000 here in Fountain Hills, AZ. Lots of positive horn honking, only a few middle fingers.
My sign got some pretty good reactions (stolen from Jon Stewart):
Led off with a small marching band organized by one of the local churches (Episcopal, I think) with a banner “Palm Sunday: The Original No Kings Rally”
Here in Asheville it was the biggest protest I’ve ever been to. Unlike previous ones, it didn’t seem dominated by Boomers: there was a strong multigenerational turnout. Like previous ones, unfortunately, it was overwhelmingly a White crowd. Asheville is the most segregated place I’ve ever lived, and that carries through to leftist politics.
I noticed that too. The first one of these I went to (same location) got a mix of negative and positive comments from passing traffic, with the majority pretty clearly in the ‘stare straight ahead and pretend nothing’s happening’ camp. This time, there were almost no negative comments, and a whole lot of positive ones.
We turned out about 250 people, in a village of a bit under 5000, in quite a red area. Not everyone was from inside the village, some were from the surrounding rural area or even smaller local villages. There were two more such rallies the same distance or only slightly further from me; I’d been debating trying to get to two of them, but the timing didn’t work out.
We waved in a friendly fashion at the one police car that drove by ours. A while later the organizers got a polite request from them to remind people to stay out of the street. I hadn’t actually noticed anybody in the street, but the organizers did come through and remind us (we were mostly lined up right at the edge of the main through road, on the grass strip; with a somewhat thicker crowd on the county courthouse lawn,)
We want the local police on our side, if we can get them; and here I think in at least some cases we can.
Good turn out in Bozeman, MT. Not sure if it was bigger than October. My “Armed Liberal” tee shirt was popular.
The above WaPo comment that we can’t protest without permission from the administration is… troubling.
Drove by a protest about 11:00am today in a Los Angeles suburb. I would estimate
that there were about three or four hundred people there. I stopped and walked
around about an hour later but by that time it was breaking up and the protesters
were beginning to leave. Didn’t see any really clever signs but did notice that
there were more non white protesters this time. The protests here have had very
few minorities in the past despite the large number of such persons living
in this area.
Good turnout here in La Crosse, Wisconsin (pop 50,000), despite a chilly breeze…and, as others have noted, much more supportive honking from passing drivers than usual.
Also (as others noted), a good number of younger folks…but, not many folks of color.
Went to my local protest today. It was a nice turnout. A lot of positive encouragement from passing vehicles, which is refreshing. I didn’t attend my local No Kings last fall, but i heard there were a lot of asshole pickup truck agitators circling. There was nothing of the sort this time. Lot’s of positive honking in numbers that make me feel very hopeful.
I was torn about going an extra 15 minutes to Pittsburgh or my county courthouse. On one hand, helping the crowdsize in the city boosts national awareness, but we decided to boost our area, they need our help more. I think we made a good decision.
I feel more hopeful than I have in a while. I feel like the good guys can win.
Just under 900 in my Northern Virginia suburb, on a clear but cold and windy day. A lot of supportive honks! 2 counter-protestors. Turnout was slightly better than NKD2 (800), which was twice NKD1 (400). Our State Senator and a State Delegate were there.
I’m in Northern Virginia too. When I was younger and more vigorous, I always went downtown to Washington, DC for protests. Now it’s very convenient that they have rallies close to where I live. There were a lot of my fellow senior citizens also taking advantage of the low-impact option. Black and white people together. Our new congressman James Walkinshaw was there and I got a selfie with him. Being there among everyone lifted my spirits, I sang along with “Streets of Minneapolis,” and enjoyed the beautiful sunny day.
We went to an early (10 am) rally that our group helped organize in Swampscott, on the North Shore of Boston, then to the main one in Boston. I estimate around 800 at the first, and the published estimate for Boston when the Dropkick Murphys were playing was 200,000.
Click on the image below to see the whole panorama.
