New York (AP) – Opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration descended from the streets of small and small on the United States on Saturday, describing what they consider threats to the democratic ideals of the nation.
Disappear events went from a walk to Midtown Manhattan and a gathering in front of the White House to a demonstration during a commemoration of the Massachusetts of “The Shot Heard” Round The World “on April 19, 1775, marking the Beginning of the revolutionary war 250 years ago.
Thomas Bassford was one of the demonstrators during the reconstruction of the Lexington and Concord Battles Outside Boston. The Maine’s 80 -year -old retirement mason said he thought the Americans were attacked by their own government and had to defend themselves.
“This is a very perilous period in America for freedom,” said Bassford, who was with his partner, his daughter and his two grandsons. “I wanted boys to discover the origins of this country and sometimes we have to fight for freedom.”
In Denver, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Colorado State Capitol, banners expressing solidarity with immigrants and saying to the Trump administration: “The workforce!” People have agitated flags for us, some of them have stood upside down to report distress.
Thousands of people also crossed the city center of Portland, Oregon, while in San Francisco, hundreds stated the words “Impeach & Retirts” on a sandy beach along the Pacific Ocean, also with an inverted American flag. People crossed the city center of Anchorage, in Alaska, with handmade signs listing the reasons why they demonstrate, including the one who read: “No sign is big enough to list all the reasons that I am here!”
People have signs and sing slogans during a demonstration against the Trump administration, on Saturday April 19, 2025, in Miami. (AP photo / Lynne Sladky)
Elsewhere, demonstrations have been planned outside the Tesla car dealerships against billionaire adviser Trump Elon Musk and his role in the reduction of the federal government. Others organized more events focused on community services such as food drives, lessons and volunteering in local shelters.
The demonstrations occur only two weeks after a similar national demonstrations.
The organizers say that they oppose what they call the violations of Trump’s civil rights and constitutional violations, including efforts for Deporting dozens of immigrants and to withdraw the federal government by dismiss thousands of civil servants And Effectively closing entire agencies.
Certain events were based on the spirit of revolutionary war, calling for “no kings” and resistance to tyranny.
In Anchorage, a colonial reconstruction of colonial garb held a “No Kings” sign while the person next to him hoisted in a cardboard that was partly read: “The feudal age is finished.”
Alberto Rosales has an American flag upside down for what he calls a “crisis symbol” during a demonstration against the Trump administration on Saturday April 19, 2025 in Miami. (AP photo / Lynne Sladky)
George Bryant, a resident of Boston, who was part of the Concordian demonstration, said that he feared that the president would create a “police state”. He was holding a sign saying: “Trump’s fascist diet must go now!”
“He defies the courts. He takes away students. He bans checks and counterweights,” said Bryant. “It’s fascism.”
The demonstrators constitute a human banner “Impeach & withdraws” on Ocean Beach during a demonstration against the American president Donald Trump, in San Francisco, on Saturday April 19, 2025. (Stephen Lam / San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
In Washington, Bob Faspek, a 76 -year -old federal retired employee from Springfield, Virginia, said he was released at the rally near the White House by concern about the threats of regular procedure, Social Security and other federal security programs.
The Trump administration, among others, has moved to Offers of the social security administration of the shutter,, Cut financing government health programs And Back protections for transgender people.
“I cannot sit down yet knowing that if I do nothing and everyone does nothing to change this, that the world we leave collectively for small children, for our neighbors is simply not the one I would like to live,” said Fasust.
In Columbia, in South Carolina, several hundred people protested against the status holding sign with slogans such as “Fight Fiercely, Harvard, Fight”.
And in Manhattan, the demonstrators rallied against the continuous deportations of immigrants while they were walking from the New York public library to the north towards Central Park and passing from the Trump Tower.
People come together to protest the policies of President Donald Trump on Saturday April 19, 2025 in New York. (AP photo / Joseph Frederick)
“No fear, no hatred, no ice in our state,” they sang a constant drum, referring to American immigration and the application of customs.
Marshall Gree War with the Venezuelan gangs Linked to the government of the South American nation, even if a recent assessment of American information has found no coordination between them.
“The congress should intensify and say no, we are not at war. You cannot use this,” said the 61 -year -old man of Morristown, New Jersey. “You cannot expel people without regular procedure, and everyone in this country has the right of regular procedure whatever happens.”
Meanwhile, Melinda Charles, of Connecticut, said that she was worried about “Executive Overreach”, citing clashes with the federal, Harvard University and other elite colleges.
“We are supposed to have three equal branches of government,” she said, “and that the executive branch becomes so strong, I mean that it is simply incredible.”
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The writers of the Associated Press Claire Rush in Oregon, Joseph Frederick in New York, Rodrique Ngowi in Massachusetts, Nathan Ellgren in Washington and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed.
