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President Fires Back At ‘Joke’ No Kings Protests

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No Kings March
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President Donald Trump fired back at the massive “No Kings” demonstrations that swept across the country this weekend, dismissing the movement as a “joke” and ridiculing claims that he’s ruling like a monarch.

“I’m not a king. I work my a** off to make our country great. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while flying back to Washington, D.C. from Florida on Sunday.

Millions of protesters turned out in cities nationwide on Saturday for the so-called “No Kings” rallies, which organizers said were aimed at denouncing Trump’s leadership style.

The movement staged roughly 2,600 separate demonstrations across all 50 states, with major crowds gathering in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

The protests marked the second wave of “No Kings” events since Trump’s return to the White House.

The first took place in June, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, which happened to fall on Trump’s 79th birthday.

Trump brushed off the weekend’s demonstrations, suggesting they were orchestrated by deep-pocketed liberal donors.

“I think it’s a joke,” he said, calling the rallies “very small” and “very ineffective.”

The president claimed the protest signs looked freshly printed and accused billionaire financier George Soros and other “radical left lunatics” of funding the effort.

“I looked at the people — they’re not representative of this country,” Trump said.

“And I looked at all the brand new signs… I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was. We’re checking it out.”

Trump went on to mock the participants, saying, “The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.”

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During a protest in Chicago, Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson fired up the crowd by accusing Trump of craving a “Civil War” rematch.

“Are you prepared to destroy authoritarianism once and for all? We’ll let the world hear you — no kings!” Johnson shouted to cheering demonstrators, urging them to “be ready to fight fascism.”

He warned the crowd to brace for what he called a “rematch of the Civil War.”

Johnson argued that the city would remain a stronghold for the anti-Trump resistance.

“If my ancestors, as slaves, can lead the greatest general strike in the history of this country, taking it to the ultra-rich and big corporations, we can do the same today,” he contended.

The mayor vowed that Chicago would continue to serve as a symbol of defiance against Trump’s agenda.

Late Saturday, Trump appeared to respond to the protests with satire, posting an AI-generated video to his Truth Social platform.

The clip depicted the president wearing a crown and flying a fighter jet labeled “King Trump” over protesters in New York City.

As the hit song “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins played, the jet bombed the crowd with what looked like brown sludge.

Trump also shared a fake Time Magazine cover of himself wearing a jeweled crown, captioned “Long Live the King.”

Vice President JD Vance joined in the humor, sharing another AI video featuring Trump in royal garb, standing triumphantly as Democrats like Nancy Pelosi appeared to kneel before him.

The video was widely seen as a jab at Pelosi’s infamous 2020 photo kneeling in kente cloth following the death of George Floyd.

In a Fox News interview recorded before the protests, Trump rejected the narrative that he acts like a monarch.

“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” he said during an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson also came to Trump’s defense, calling the protests a “stunt” designed to distract from the ongoing government shutdown.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Johnson said Democrats were looking for political cover as negotiations over federal funding stalled.

“The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone. If President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now,” Johnson said.

“If President Trump was a king, they would not have been able to engage in that free speech exercise out on the Mall — which, by the way, was open because President Trump hasn’t closed it.”

Johnson accused Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of using the protests as a diversion.

“They needed a stunt. They needed a show. Chuck Schumer needs cover right now,” he remarked.

“He’s closed the government down because he needs political cover, and this was a part of it.”

Johnson said he was glad the events remained largely peaceful, noting, “We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free, free speech exercise. I was a First Amendment lawyer for 20 years. We defend that right.”

The protests coincided with the third week of a government shutdown, with no breakthrough in sight.

Democrats have refused to back a Republican plan to reopen the government unless an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies is included.

Trump, in his Fox News interview, said he was prepared to make tough spending cuts.

“We’re cutting Democrat programs that we didn’t want, because they made one mistake,” Trump said.

“They didn’t realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera.”

The president also discussed his decision to deploy National Guard troops to several major cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis.

His administration has faced legal challenges in Chicago and Portland, where courts temporarily blocked the deployments.

Trump hinted that San Francisco may be next, describing the city as a once-great place that has “gone wrong.”

“I think they want us in San Francisco,” Trump said. “San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then, 15 years ago, it went wrong.”

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