Thousands of Americans took to the streets on Saturday in New York and other major US cities for a second anti-Trump protest in just two weeks.
Placards at the New York protest read “No King in America” and “Resist Tyranny,” alongside images of the US president depicted with a Hitler-style moustache.
“The democracy is in great danger,” Kathy Valy, aged 73 and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, told AFP. She added that what her parents recounted about the rise of Nazism in the 1930s “is happening here.” She reassures herself by saying, “The difference with other fascists is that Trump is too foolish to be effective, and his team is divided.”
Protesters specifically condemned the White House’s anti-immigration policies. This comes as the Supreme Court suspended deportations based on a 1798 law concerning “alien enemies.”
“Immigrants are welcome here,” chanted protesters outside the New York Public Library, not far from the billionaire’s famous Trump Tower. Demonstrators also gathered in front of the White House in Washington, although their numbers seemed smaller compared to the previous protest on Saturday 5 April, which drew tens of thousands.
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Protests were also reported outside Tesla showrooms, the car brand owned by Elon Musk. Musk has been tasked by Donald Trump with significantly reducing the public sector.
The mobilisation was organised by a group called 50501, a name representing 50 protests across the 50 states resulting in one unified opposition movement against the Republican billionaire.
According to this organisation, around 400 demonstrations are planned for the day, with 50501 calling on 11 million people to take to the streets—a figure likely to surpass that of 5 April.
Accurate numbers are challenging to verify, as many police departments are unwilling to provide estimates.
