"Down with the king" "No to war"! 9 million Americans protest Trump's domestic and foreign policies

(Source: The Observer)

According to a综合新华社 report, protests and demonstrations broke out across multiple places in the United States on the 28th. Millions of people took to the streets to express dissatisfaction with a series of policies by the Trump administration, including immigration enforcement, and called for an end to the military strikes against Iran.

The protests were themed “No Kings.” Organizers estimated that more than 3,100 protests would be held nationwide in the U.S. on the day, covering 50 states, as well as major cities such as Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Boston. This was the third round of nationwide protests in the U.S. under the “No Kings” theme, following June and October 2025. Media estimates put the number of participants at 9 million.

In New York, the protests covered all five boroughs. Around 2:00 p.m., a reporter saw that on Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue, demonstrators held up signs and shouted slogans such as “No Kings,” “No Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” and “No War.” The marching protest line extended for more than 10 blocks. On the day, New York City deployed several thousand police officers to maintain public order.

Janet, a protester, told a reporter, “I don’t like how this country treats immigrants. And we don’t even want to get pulled into a war in the Middle East.”

“Everything about the U.S. situation at home and abroad is a mess! The Trump administration has launched a war against others that is neither just nor necessary. At home, there is a shortage of funding for important public services, and the cost of living keeps getting higher. All of this is harming people’s interests.” said Caroline Reale, a resident of New York City.

In the U.S. capital Washington, a protest march made up of over a thousand demonstrators crossed the Arlington Memorial Bridge and gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. People held banners reading “Fight for Democracy” and “Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” shouted slogans, gave speeches, and called for accountability for the decision to go to war with Iran. Outside the White House fence, in President’s Park and near the Washington Monument, many protestors also gathered.

An angry protester in his 50s said, “We’re going to be trapped in the Middle East again with no way out.”

On the West Coast, in San Francisco, thousands of people took to the streets to protest Trump’s brutal immigration policies and called for an end to the U.S.-Israel-Iran war.

About 100,000 people in Los Angeles held a protest in downtown. Protesters waved American flags and held signboards, criticizing the Trump administration’s actions on immigration policy, economic policy, foreign policy, and the illegal expansion of executive power. Billy Brown, a 59-year-old protester, told a reporter in an interview, “Once, this was a country all of us were proud of. And now, we’ve become a laughingstock around the world.”

After the evening protest ended, many people still gathered around the Metropolitan Detention Center not far from the rally site. Police issued dispersal orders, deployed mounted police, and used batons, tear gas, and pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Local media reported that dozens of people had already been arrested and many were injured.

St. Paul, the state capital of Minnesota, was the main venue for the nationwide protests in the U.S. Although the weather was cold, organizers estimated that 100,000 people attended the protests that day. Prominent political figures, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, took the stage to deliver speeches at the protest site outside the state capitol. Behind the podium, large banners on the steps periodically changed, including messages such as “Shut down U.S. military bases, bring the soldiers home—revolution starts in Minnesota.”

In his speech, Sanders sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, accusing him of lying to the public on the Iran issue. He said that in the last presidential election, Trump promised he would no longer launch foreign wars, but reality proved that this was just a lie from his campaign. “This war must stop immediately.”

Fox News published a poll recently showing that nearly two-thirds of surveyed U.S. voters are dissatisfied with President Trump’s performance in office, with the dissatisfaction rate being the highest among his two terms.

The conservative outlet’s poll of 1,001 registered voters showed that the dissatisfaction rate with Trump’s job performance was 59%, up 8 percentage points from a year earlier. This is not only his highest since the start of his second term, but also surpasses the record of his first term. The satisfaction rate fell from 49% a year earlier to 41%. The poll randomly sampled respondents from the U.S. voter registration rolls.

Among Republican supporters, the satisfaction rate with Trump was 84%, down 8 percentage points from the same period last year—its lowest level since the start of the second term. In Democratic and independent voters, the dissatisfaction rates reached 95% and 75%, respectively.

The poll showed that Trump’s evaluations across various issues were generally poor: dissatisfaction rates in healthcare, immigration, foreign policy, taxes, and the Iran issue were significantly higher than the satisfaction rates. The public’s assessment of how he handled inflation was the worst: only 28% of respondents said they approved, down 7 percentage points from January and down 12 percentage points from a year earlier.

The state of the U.S. economy became the root cause of public dissatisfaction. Support for Trump’s handling of economic issues also hit a new low, at just 34%, down 6 and 9 percentage points from January and a year earlier, respectively. 75% of respondents said the current U.S. economic situation is bad, and nearly half said their personal financial situation is worsening. 86% of respondents are worried about inflation and high prices, including 57% who said they are extremely concerned.

Many respondents believe that the U.S. economy will not improve in the short term. 53% expect the U.S. economy to worsen further over the coming year, while only 25% hold the opposite view.

Original headline: “No Kings,” “No War”! 9 million protestors across the U.S. against Trump’s domestic and foreign policies

Column chief editor: Shen Qinhan; Text editor: Liu Chang; Image source: Xinhua News Agency

Source: Author: Su Lishi

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