'No Kings' protest to hit US cities on October 18: Nationwide anti-Trump rallies planned across 2500 locations. What you need to know

Millions are expected to attend a second “No Kings” protest on October 18, with marches and rallies planned in more than 2,500 locations nationwide. The protest has also been organised in the National Mall in Washington DC. This is the latest series of mass protests since President Donald Trump took office in January.

The protests are meant as a celebration of free speech, the right to assemble and the First Amendment broadly. The organizers said the "No Kings" protest is also an opportunity to push back against recent moves by Trump's administration including increased immigration enforcement.

“This, without question, will be the single biggest day of protest in American history," Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, which is helping organize the rallies, told USA Today. “Since we last did this, people have become far more aware of what is going wrong with this administration."


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'No Kings' protest in US

Four months ago, more than five million Americans gathered in small towns and major cities across the country to denounce what they described as President Donald Trump’s expansion of executive power. The coordinated “No Kings” protests became one of the largest single-day demonstrations in US history—and the biggest since Trump returned to the White House for a second term.

On Saturday, millions of protesters are expected to join “No Kings” demonstrations nationwide in opposition to the Trump administration's overall agenda, including its deployment of military troops in US cities. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Newsweek regarding the upcoming demonstrations: "What protest?"

The movement has been organized by Indivisible and a broad coalition of labor unions and activist networks on what they call repeated “authoritarian power grabs” by the Trump Administration, including the recent deployment of federal forces in American cities and attempted censorship of late night TV hosts. Organizers have called on Americans to gather peacefully across the nation to “remind President Trump and his enablers: America has No Kings.”

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Also, these anti-Trump protests come amid a government shutdown that has left large parts of the federal workforce furloughed or fired. Organizers say the “No Kings” name reflects a rejection of what they view as Trump’s attempts to consolidate power, defy courts, and erode democratic norms.

Rallies, protests and marches will be held in big cities and small towns across the country. Protesters are being urged to wear yellow.

'No Kings' protest events in US

The biggest 'No Kings' protests are planned for outside the Capitol in Washington, DC, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans and Bozeman, Montana, reports USA Today. Most states have multiple, or even hundreds of, scheduled events.

The initial protest in June was organized by the 50501 Movement — short for “50 states, 50 protests, one movement.” The demonstrations were intended to mark “a day of defiance against Trump’s authoritarianism, pro-billionaire agenda, and the militarization of America’s cities.”

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“On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people,” reads a statement on the group’s website.

“President Trump has openly said he wants a third term and is already acting like a monarch—seizing control of D.C., threatening other cities, and using federal forces against his own people,” the statement continues. “But the American people don’t bow to kings. Together, we will peacefully mobilize, yet again, in huge numbers to reject this corruption and abuse of power—it’s in our DNA as a country.”

Thousands took to streets was they were frustrated with Trump's policies- from the gutting of the federal workforce and programs to sweeping immigration enforcement raids. Organizers say roughly 2,500 protests are planned in every US state, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, and that nationwide turnout could surpass the June demonstrations.

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