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No Kings protests: millions rally in cities around the world against Trump and his administration – as it happened

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 2302 words · By Cecilia Nowell; Diana Ramirez-Simon; George Chidi; Fabiola Cineas; Rachel Leingang; Lex McMenamin; Melody Schreiber; Alaina Demopoulos
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What to know about No Kings protests: millions rally in cities around the world against Trump and his administration – as it happened

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What happened

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Why it matters

Here is a summary of the key developments from today: Millions of people were expected to protest against the Trump administration at more than 3,000 “No Kings” events across the United States.

Common ground

Although organizers do not yet have an exact count of how many people attended, it’s clear that hundreds of thousands of people turned out at rallies in New York City, Washington DC, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin,…

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Rev Raphael Warnock, a US senator, addressed the crowd ahead of the Atlanta protest march.”
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Claim 2: “Police in Hawaii have determined that a bomb threat at the state capitol grounds in Honolulu is 'no threat to the public'.”
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Claim 3: “The White House and Republican leadership denounced the No Kings day events as 'Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions' and 'Hate America Rallies'.”
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Claim 4: “In a sea of homemade signs, some protesters are also waving dozens of flags representing Palestine, Ireland, Mexico and Lebanon.”
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Claim 5: “For many demonstrators, the influx of ICE and border patrol agents in Chicago last fall during 'Operation Midway Blitz' is still fresh in their minds.”
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Claim 6: “Federal agents made thousands of arrests, deployed an unprecedented amount of teargas and chemical irritants on protesters, and fatally shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and Marimar Martinez.”
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Claim 7: “Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oath, and Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, are at the protest.”
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Claim 8: “Hundreds of thousands of people turned out at rallies in New York City, Washington DC, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Nashville, Dallas, Denver and elsewhere.”
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Claim 9: “Millions of people were expected to protest against the Trump administration at more than 3,000 'No Kings' events across the United States.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The June 2025 No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, were a series of political demonstrations, largely in the United States, against what the organ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2025_No_Kings_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court determined that presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presump…
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Claim 10: “Several thousand people took to the streets Saturday across metro Atlanta, from the middle of the state’s capitol in the heart of Georgia’s liberal politics all the way to Woodstock, a redoubt of red-state Republicanism.”
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Claim 11: “Counter-protesters held events in support of the president in a handful of cities, including West Palm Beach, Florida and Dallas, Texas, where leaders of Oath and the Proud Boys were in attendance.”
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Claim 12: “Letitia James, Jumaane Williams, Robert De Niro, Rev Al Sharpton and Padma Lakshmi attended one of several marches that converged in Times Square.”
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Claim 13: “Bruce Springsteen sang his song about the death and destruction brought by ICE titled 'Streets of Minneapolis' at the flagship protest in St Paul, Minnesota.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nebraska is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 30, 1982, through Columbia Records. Springsteen recorded the songs unaccompanied on a four…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Streets of Minneapolis" is an anti-ICE protest song by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released in 2026, in response to the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, which occurred…
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Claim 14: “Law enforcement officers have evacuated the Hawaii state capitol due to a possible bomb threat hours before a No Kings event was scheduled to occur at the building.”
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Claim 15: “Honolulu police announced in a social media post that all roadways have been reopened and the planned No Kings protest has been moved back to the capitol.”
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Claim 16: “Local news reported that police, with state sheriffs assisting, had evacuated the capitol and closed off four streets nearby.”
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Claim 17: “Protesters in Atlanta marched about three-quarters of a mile down Memorial Drive to the state capitol.”
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