Newsman: Record-breaking turnout at ‘No Kings’ rallies across US Millions across the country took to the streets on Saturday’s “No Kings Day,” a protest voicing opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration. Huge crowds of protesters took to the streets in more than 3,000 cities and towns across the country Saturday to again call out President Donald Trump and his polices.
In New York City, the rally began in Columbus Circle near Trump International Luxury Hotel on Saturday and marched through midtown Manhattan. Starting from Columbus Circle, rally walk through Seventh Avenue and Broadway, through Times Square and to 34th Street. It included a who’s who of celebrities, including actor Robert de Niro.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York City for the “No Kings” protest. Demonstrators protested federal immigration policies and the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents amid an ongoing battle in Congress over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. They chanted “No ICE, No war And No King.”
High-profile figures rallied support earlier in the day at a press conference, including civil rights leader Al Sharpton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and actor Robert de Niro, who all called for action and urged people to show up.
“We still believe in the core American values of justice, equality, decency, and kindness,” de Niro said. “Because we’re going from the streets to the ballot box and because we all deserve a country with no king.”
Protesters at the march held signs and flags reading slogans against Trump’s immigration policy, From the use of federal troops for immigration enforcement, to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, to Trump’s war with Iran.
Protesters’ signs opposed the war in Iran, decried the cost of housing and health care, supported Ukraine in its war with Russia and raised the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Some of them called for Trump’s impeachment. At some rallies, there were signs to “Abolish ICE.”
Organized by “No Kings,” a network of progressive groups opposed to the administration’s agenda, the protests are the third wave of demonstrations since the President took office for a second term. Last year, millions attended protests in June and again in October. Members of the National No Kings Coalition said Americans raised their voices in protest.
The organizers, from groups that include the ACLU, National Action Network and the United Federation of Teachers, said that they were some 3,200 events planned for the day.
Protesters said they hope events like this will bring about change in the country.
“We’re just here to show up for our communities and our neighbors and say that we don’t accept this treatment, everyone is welcome here in New York, and that this is unacceptable,” a protester said.
“The people coming out will be asked to show up on an ongoing basis for ICE watch, for mutual aid, for support of immigrant communities, for advocacy against this illegal and catastrophic war, for voter registration and all the work of building power locally,” Leah Greenberg, co-director of Indivisible, one of the coalition’s groups, said in a statement Thursday.
Streets from coast to coast were filled with marchers who carried homemade signs, sang songs and chanted against Trump’s policies, actions and rhetoric.
The turnout was historic and It was among the largest protests in American history. This time, there were more events scheduled − 3,300 larger crowds were reported and also boosted in part by opposition to the war in Iran.
Parts of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street were closed during the march
Around 6 p.m., the NYPD announced the protests had dispersed and all traffic closures were lifted.
“We had tens of thousands of people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights, and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests,” the NYPD said.
Rallies across the country
More “No Kings” rallies were held Saturday in cities across the country, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Paul, Minnesota. Streets filled across the country for ‘No Kings’ peaceful rallies protesting Trump.
In Los Angeles, 74 people, eight of whom were juveniles, were arrested for failure to disperse after the dispersal order for the march was issued at 5:30 p.m., according to police. One additional adult was arrested for possession of a dirk or dagger, police said. The event was scheduled to end at 5 p.m.
In Minneapolis, which saw tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets in January and February following the Good and Pretti killings, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Bruce Springsteen spoke at the event there, according to “No Kings” organizers. The “No Kings” organizers said over 200,000 people attended the Minneapolis rally.
The demonstration outside the Minnesota State Capitol for the marquee No Kings rally, with Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda on the bill, wasn’t the most notable development during the day of protests on March 28.
The left-leaning protests with the Revolutionary-era call against President Donald Trump as a would-be monarch and authoritarian had the broadest geographic reach of any single-day protest in the United States in more than a half-century. They included not only familiar precincts in New York and Los Angeles and Austin but also communities in all 50 states and every congressional district, including rural and Republican areas.
By the way, a twilight rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, included a march down President Donald Trump Boulevard toward Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where the president was spending the weekend. Police turned back the demonstrators before they got close enough to be seen or heard there.
The White House already had dismissed the protests as meaningless.
The demonstrations weren’t only limited to cities in the U.S. as protesters in other countries held “No Kings” protests as well.
In Rome and London, the streets were filled with demonstrators. There were also demonstrations in other countries from Europe to Latin America to Australia, some of them with the title “No Tyrants” instead of “No Kings,” with a recurring demand for “a world free from wars.”
The “No Kings” protests are the latest since October and organizers said they are looking to send a message addressing what they call “the constant chaos of the Trump administration” since then.
Saturday marked the third “No Kings” demonstration since Trump returned office.
The No Kings protests on March 28, 2026, became a nationwide demonstration against President Donald Trump, drawing an estimated 8 million participants in over 3,300 locations and reflecting a mix of anti‑Trump, pro‑democracy, and other policy concerns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Organizers said two-thirds of participants who signed up live in suburban, small town or rural areas. That’s a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities.
The first No Kings rallies were held less than a year ago, on June 14, the day Trump presided over a military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also happened to be his 79th birthday. Those protests drew about 5 million people, a number affirmed by the Crowd Counting Consortium sponsored by Harvard and the University of Connecticut.
Four months later, the second No Kings marches drew an estimated 2 million more.
The protesters were united by opposition to Trump and support for democratic institutions they accuse him of endangering.
