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First No Kings protests in June 2025 as Trump held military parade in Washington DC
The first set of No Kings protests took place in June 2025, as my colleagues Rachel Leingang, Andrew Gumbel and Melissa Hellmann reported at the time. The events took place at the same time as Donald Trump held a military parade in Washington DC on the day of his 79th birthday.
As tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Washington on Saturday, several million people around the country turned out to protest against the excesses of Donald Trump’s administration.
The protests, dubbed “No Kings”, took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small towns. A coalition of more than 100 groups joined together to plan the protests, which are committed to a principle of nonviolence.
This week, the president has deployed national guard and US marine troops to Los Angeles to crack down on protesters who have demonstrated against his ramped-up deportations, defying state and local authorities in a show of military force that hasn’t been seen in the US since the civil rights era. Interest in the Saturday protests rose as a result, organizers said, including at a site near Trump’s south Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.
Meanwhile, crowds have begun to gather in Washington DC:
Although it’s still early in the day in the United States, Americans living abroad have already been out protesting for hours alongside their neighbors, including in France, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Greece.
Here’s a snapshot of the protests they organized:
What to know about the third No Kings protests
Lex McMenamin
This is the third set of protests to take place across the US since Donald Trump was re-elected as president. My colleague Lex McMenamin explains what to know about the latest protests:
Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration at more than 3,000 No Kings events in cities and small towns across the country on Saturday. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said he expected it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.
This will be the third No Kings protest since Trump was re-elected. A flagship event will be held in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – after residents stood up to the surge of federal immigration agents the Trump administration sent into the region earlier this year. In January, agents killed two residents, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were observing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.
Levin said in January that the third No Kings was a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over ICE and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. Invisible co-founder Leah Greenberg recently told the Guardian that the Iran war was also motivating people to take to the streets.
“Every No Kings is going to be about the issues that are driving people most at that moment,” said Greenberg, “and it’s also going to be about the collective ways in which they begin to harm our democracy.”
Good morning. Today our US politics blog will cover the third No Kings march as millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration at more than 3,000 events across the United States.
A flagship event will be held in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, where massive anti-ICE demonstrations broke out earlier this year after federal agents killed two residents.
Our reporters will share updates from that and other events across the country, at what event organizers hope will be “the biggest protest in American history”.