By Michael Casey, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) – Protesters against President Donald Trump and his policies braved freezing temperatures to demonstrate Monday during gatherings corresponding to the presidents’ holidays.
Nicknamed “No Kings on Presidents Day” by the 50501 movement, the last demonstrations occurred less than two weeks after a similar national event on February 5 attracted participants in dozens of cities. The two demonstrations denounced Trump and billionaire councilor Elon Musk, the chief of the new Trump government’s government ministry, an external government organization designed to reduce federal spending.
Nearly 1,000 people paraded in the snow of the Boston State house at the Town Hall, singing “Elon Musk had to go” and “no kings on the day of the presidents!” The temperature was lower than the frost with wind cooling in adolescents.
Boston demonstrators, some dressed in war -style revolutionary clothing in the 1700s, transported panels saying things such as “this is a coup” and “cowards bow against Trump, the patriots get up” . A sign had a representation of Uncle Sam saying: “I want you to resist.”
“I thought it was important to be here on the presidents to demonstrate what America represents,” said Emily Manning, 55, a Boston engineer who came to the rally with his two teenage sons. “American values are not the values of ratherocracy or the few limited rich people.”
The organizers of Monday demonstrations, which were focused on state capitals and major cities, including Washington, DC; Orlando, Florida; And Seattle said they were aiming for “anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies”.
A sign during the rally that attracted hundreds to the national capital said: “Expel Musk Dethrone Trump.”
Many events were planned for cities where temperatures were well below the frost while a polar vortex has made its way across the country.
The rallies followed a series of decrees from Trump and intervened only a few days after dismissals in federal agencies in the context of an effort to reduce the government’s workforce.
The writer Associated Press Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this report.
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