If you’ve opened social media, picked up a newspaper (yes, they still exist!) or flicked on a cable news channel in the past 24 hours, you’ve undoubtedly seen liberal commentators giddily reporting on the left-wing “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump over the weekend. But as leftists rush to portray the rallies as a spontaneous democratic uprising against a wannabe dictator, they are in fact only acting as pawns of powerful interest groups that actually want monarchical control over American life.
It should go without saying – but apparently needs to be said anyway – that President Trump is the furthest thing from a “king” that Americans have had in the White House in a long time.
What kind of king would intentionally try to shrink the size of his government and return more power to states and localities on issues like education? What kind of king would cut the size of his tax-collecting bureaucracy, reduce government’s oppressive control over vehicle emissions, or donate his own salary – essentially working for free? What kind of king gives up a life of wealth, luxury, and universal adoration to subject himself and his family to endless personal attacks and even attempts to put him in prison?
If Democrats are really interested in rallying against tyranny in the White House, they should have done so during the Obama and Biden administrations.
It was under Obama that the federal government continued illegally spying on American citizens without a warrant, illegally weaponized the IRS against Tea Party conservatives, illegally granted legal status to millions of illegal aliens, and engaged in dozens of other abuses of power. Under Biden, the federal government infamously targeted parents, Catholics, pro-life grandmas, and even stay-at-home moms as potential “extremist” threats. Biden also weaponized the government against Trump, his top political opponent, to attempt to undermine his re-election campaign – the most outrageous lawfare crusade in American history.
But hundreds of thousands of protesters nonetheless took to the streets in all 50 states on March 28 in the third iteration of the “No Kings” marches. The first two last year drew similar media fanfare, but also revealed that the rallies are hardly the grassroots, citizen-led affairs they were made out to be.
As Fox News reported, the protests were in fact organized and funded by “a network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues.” Those groups paid professional activists to organize and attend the rallies, which is why many had suspiciously professional-looking signs and props. One protest in Chicago had a massive depiction of the U.S. Constitution. As one X user noted, “No normal American could ever afford to have something like this made. This is the CLEAREST example of the massive funding behind the paid protest.”
One of the largest individual funders of the protests was liberal megadonor George Soros – a Hungarian-born billionaire who has notoriously funded the progressive takeover of local prosecutors’ offices throughout the country. Soros’s extensive network of shadowy nonprofits and activist groups has its fingerprints all over this weekend’s rallies.
And here we see the deep irony and grotesque hypocrisy of this entire astroturfed “movement.” The point of the “No Kings” mantra is supposed to be that the United States was founded by declaring independence from a foreign king – and therefore our country has no kings. But the same people screaming this line in the streets are in fact doing the bidding of a foreign-born billionaire who is attempting to sabotage a duly elected president.
If anyone is acting like a king, it is the wealthy liberal elites pushing these protests in the first place. They didn’t like the outcome of the 2024 election, and so they are using their fortunes and institutional power to manufacture a narrative that undermines President Trump and his agenda. The Democrat partisans who turned out for these protests may think that they are opposing tyranny, but really they are just acting as pawns of the most tyrannical individuals in our society.
Even according to the most generous estimates, about seven million people attended the No Kings rallies nationwide (and there’s plenty of reason to doubt that figure). That is indeed a massive show of force – but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the 77.3 million people who voted for Trump, or even the 75 million ballots counted for Kamala Harris.
This is important to keep in mind. In our sensationalist, 24-hour media culture, a noisy minority almost always gets more attention than the silent majority. The point of the No Kings rallies is to maximize turnout among the rabid anti-Trump Democrat base, push a narrative about Trump being unpopular through the media, and ultimately demoralize the Republican base ahead of the midterms.
In other words, it’s not some principled crusade to stand up for democracy or defend American “norms.” Strip away the theatrics, and the “No Kings” movement reveals itself not as a rebellion against tyranny, but as a carefully orchestrated exercise in it.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The richest families in the world are the ones who are destabilizing world governments to eventually invoke the ONE WORLD ORDER to control all facets of the world. Right now, they are slowly working to get rid of the US Constitution so as to destabilize our nation. With it gone, rest of the world will fall like dominoes so the ONE WORLD ORDER can take over. Everything that is happening in our nation at this time has the goal to disrupt the inner workings of our government and possibly force a revolution. If the American people continue to lay back and do nothing, we can kiss our nation goodbye.
There is nothing logical about the left.
I am so thoroughly sick of this nonsense. You look at the crowds and its OLD WHITE PEOPLE. WTH is wrong with these people? I suspect a vast majority are doing it to earn money. Do they really want to ruin the country over their mostly misplaced hatred of ONE MAN? I guess we’ll find out. Id Dems win in November, they’ll impeach Trump, then Vance and we’ll know it wasn’t just one guy they hated.
If he were a king wouldn’t he throw them in a dungeon and throw away the key?
You are spot on. Now HOW will the ‘protesters’/pawns be educated with the information in this editorial? WHY hasn’t the GOP or someone plastered billboards or stuffed mailboxes with this information?? The ill-informed need to know the truth!
Soros and these leftist are like a pack of RABID DOGS and should be dealt with ACCORDINGLY!!! I myself passed a no kings protest in my neighborhood and I let them know what they could do with their rally and what they could do to themselves!!!
These two-legged cancer cells consumed in hatred, are nothing more than a cess pool of radical, left-wing America-DESPISING, Cop-HATING, burned out ’60s hippie druggie Socialists. Accompanied by brainwashed, ignorantly arrogant, spoiled, enabled, ungrateful mama’s basement dweller crybaby brats. Both of which are showing their overwhelming stupidity and hypocrisy.
Pathetic indeed.
Until these lunatics are dealt with, directly and with dire consequences, from their patrons who finance them to the legislation, their info networks all the way down to their most useful of idiots, we’ll watch as they continue to destroy our country and our way of life. It’s good that they’re exposed. The election of President Trump was akin to turning on the lights and kicking the walls in a rotten democrat house: all the rats and roaches came out of their holes and are scattering everywhere. “Now we see you.” If the leftists hate anything, then we turn up the intensity on that which causes them to lose their minds. It’s so awesome watching democrats fleeing their party’s radical ideologies. If your heart is true then welcome home.
masses of lemmings rushing headlong toward the cliff
The moment Obama was elected and installed in office he was talking to his base one day, about a month after he was in office. He was saying we will take care of these teabaggers making the motion with his hand of steeping a teabag. I didn’t vote for him in 2008 because I read up on his background. First of he wasn’t born in the US was raised by a communist father and his policy was to take all the money away from the working class of people. Their 401K’s and IRA’s. And here we are. Biden finished the job with his trillion dollars of Build back Better policy. Nothing was built, money went to the Ukraine and printing of money to pay for all this caused 20% inflation and we are still suffering from high grocery prices and expensive cars because they raised the wages to keep up with the inflation prices. Biden destroyed the economy. It’s not only Soros who has destroyed this country with his buying judges and AG’s and DA’s. Organizing demonstrators who are paid by him. They have professional signs. But other billionaires are also helping. Gates and Pritzker, Hoffman and others. Many dem senators and representatives have become rich by voicing their opposition to America. The policy of Soros and his cronies. The poor democrats who worked hard on his sign and stood in the cold to demonstrate they didn’t know how they were adding to the overthrow of this country. If you take those people away from the demonstrators you would have maybe a million left. They were protesting Trump the man. Not his policies. But most American citizens don’t understand that yet. The brainwashing by the left is so total they can’t see the truth for all the lies that the dems with the legacy media have pumped into their minds since Obama in 2009. His wife hated America with a passion. But they became multi millionaires. Don’t forget what she said at the dems convention in 2024. We have to share our wealth with others. Only she meant us peons not herself. They claimed climate change is real. But bought two estates on both coasts inches from the oceans who were going to rise by 2016 by 16” according to Al Gore anyway. The dems are don’t do as I do, do as I say. What they are saying you don’t matter only those here illegally. Kill all Americans. The Biden administration worked hard at destroying our kids, the seniors with the COVID flu and the mothers by calling them domestic terrorists and sterilizing the men through the Covid vaccine and destroying the economy. They can’t stand it that President Trump raises the economy, succeeds in everything he touches. And all for the people not for Soros and his billionaire friends.
So tired of hearing about these dumb “No King” protestors. They are nothing but well over-paid protesters who do not have a real job. I would rather have a real job than look like an idiot screaming a stupid slogan.
The Democrats have no clue how to lead. There seems to be no common sense in the Democrat party. Why is it so hard for them to see what the right thing to do. Illegals need to all be rounded up and deported. I don’t care how long they have been here. They broke the law and most of them are not able to make it here on their own with out our hard earned tax dollars pay their way. Send them all back. If liberals get in the way send them with them. I would lose no sleep over kicking Democrats out of this great country. GO MAGA!!!!
“as it was in the days of Noah”
This is what happens when we stop teaching our youth the actual history of our nation. When they no longer recite the pledge of allegance, don’t know or understand the meaning of our national anthem, or “Oh Beautiful” .. – of course, this doesn’t explain what the heck happened to senior Democrats….. When we allow non citizens to teach , people who weren’t born in the US, or who hold dual citizenship to represent us in government, this is where we end up – losing everything our forefathers fought & died for – without shedding a single tear. May God have mercy on us for destroying this beautiful nation He blessed into being
These empty headed protesters have no idea they are just paid pawns in an evil game of elites vs. average Americans. I would pity them, except they worship money paid by Soros and other well-heeled socialists more than they respect the flag under which they have the freedom FOUGHT for 250 years ago from the REAL TYRANNY of a greedy king.
I blame the media’s biased reporting and the educational system hijacked by these same corrupt individuals. Corruption isn’t just all the money we paid in taxes and taken out through money laundering schemes by these empty headed politicians. It is also a message of lies and propaganda sent by bought MSM.
I remember the day Obama was inaugurated. He strolled down a runway with a very king-like cape and I remember many people back then CALLED him a king. Am I the only one who remembers this? They never quite explain who exactly they think are the kings they no longer want because they don’t understand the issues, history, or the evil they bring into our great country.
And yes! WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS when we need them to fight back? On vacation. Yup, they all left on a two week vacation at a very crucial time in our country’s future. The average person is losing faith in this government, NOT THE PRESIDENT of this government. President Trump is turning this country away from socialism and BACK to a true Representative Republic Democracy. The Dems are like cockroaches – you can try to push them back, but they just seem to multiply.
How did America end up with its biggest city, the commerce center of the world, NYC, with a full on communist dictator as mayor? And still we, the informed, STILL watch as fascism spreads across the country. Republicans are the only group with the power and mandate by voters to STOP this madness. And they do nothing. If the Dems take over Congress in this midterm election – expect nothing for the citizens except more madness and chaos.
HOW DO WE EDUCATE THE IDIOTS FOLLOWING A FAILED FORM OF GOVERNMENT that they need to pay more attention to how Hitler built his empire. I have read so many articles saying it’s the Republicans and President Trump who are responsible for WHAT? A better, more productive and prosperous nation? Then they top it off by somehow twisting the Hitler fascist model as being a Republican wish! How do we get the REAL truth out there because we HAVE to win the midterms.
Unless you want President Trump’s last two years filled with fighting off impeachments and many lawsuits as chaos takes over and the Dems make their socialist wishes come true!
Absurd hypocricy……remember, that’s the fundamental description of any and all democratic leftist actions…..across the board.
Our local news showed pictures of protesters in the Panama City area. Many were dressed up like animals. I thought it was particularly scary that we have a Supreme Court justice who doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman. But I can see that is on the same level as these Democrats, who don’t know the difference between an animal and a human being. It is testimony to the democrat party, their mental stability and, even their intelligence level.
This is another example of the left pushing LIES! Too many people hang on the word of the MSM. The left does not want to see Americans happy and prosperous. They want to sell the RIDICULOUS notion that socialism can work! The only thing socialism will ever do is make the American people equally miserable, while the leftist rulers wallow in their wealth. This no kings BS is just a bunch of apathetic PAID protesters!
Locate the snake, then eliminate it.
The most absurd of these “protests” is that we know who is funding these people and no one seems to want to arrest any of them. What is wrong with the people in DC who are suppose to stop actions that put our country and its people at risk???? The radical liberal Communists are out to abolish our Constitutional Republic. Soros thinks our government is preventing this country to becoming a just and fair world. He wants open borders, he says victims are the real “criminals” and he has funded thousands of judges’ elections who believes the same. Why are we not stopping him and his son? Another funder of this movement is a Communist who doesn’t live in the U.S. Why can we not stop them?
And yet these very same people (or at least a major portion of them) were against the removal of the illegitimate dictator Maduro, and the tyrannical leader of Iran who murdered thousands of his own citizens and sponsored the deaths of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) across the world through the sponsorship of proxy terrorist organizations.
The hypocrisy could not be more clear to anyone who has even basic critical thinking skills. The Democratic Party in America has been thoroughly and completely hijacked by the Globalist-Communist cabal.
So the “Leftist ” liberal democrats are the same party that started the “KKK”
Also Senator Joe Biden then was mentored by Senator Byrd The “Grand Wisard” of the KKK!
The People of today’s democrats party cannot debunk these facts and sure as heck refuse to discuss it.
Stupid is, Stupid does!
Truth since billions paid for marches worldiwide
Stop the money going to the ngos that are funding the Democrat lunacy. Doge showed us how our tax money was being stolen and given to these idiotic ngos and it was being funneled to be used to destroy America. Stop the money stop the craziness.
A lot of those people fried their brains on drugs back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and then passed on the stupidity through the indoctrination camps called colleges.
I am actually grateful for these “No King” rallies with the paid for protesters. Why? Because these over the top demonstrations will only serve to show everyone that this is going to be the ONE Mid-Terms Election that every registered sane person can not afford to sit out!
It’s nothing but a generic riot. No blank insert clause here, tear the city up burn the buildings down It will fix whatever the problem was. It’s kind of like how did all the illegal immigrants show up at the border well fed with a new cell phone? Ask Captain obvious
Democrats do not care especially those in politics.
How about- NO COMMIES, NO SLIMY LEFT, NO CRIMINAL INVADERS…
This article is spot-on! They are truly dedicated to destroying our democracy. The main issues that need addressed right now are to continue to secure our borders, ensure that all election results are true & accurate, resolve the Iranian conflict ASAP to avoid adversely affecting the mid-term elections & bring the prices of petroleum & electricity under control to avoid runaway inflation from returning. Then, perhaps we will have a good start on keeping the USA solvent for another 250 years!
I love the wording of this segment “compared to the 77.3 million people who voted for Trump, or even the 75 million ballots counted for Kamala Harris.” The fact that it correctly says “voted for Trump” and “Ballots counted for Harris”
What I fail to understand is why George Soros and his minions aren’t investigated for probable attempts at insurrection or basic treason against the country. Soros was a jew working for the Nazi’s in WWII….Why isn’t this exposed over and over again. The inability or lack of willingness to go after this kind of person is befuddling! This man is mentally ill and has brought his son up to hate as well… as son who is supposedly worse than he is…they are funding protests which turn into riots many times… Surely, there is something he can be prosecuted for.
interview a few of these people and find out for yourself how indoctrinated they are!
You’re talking common sense, something very, very, few of today’s progressive/socialists were ever taught to understand. Logic and truth were things never taught in their public schools or universities. So, you can’t exercise what you were never exposed to.
dems are the most absurd people on the planet Biden acted like a king no one said a word he also lied forcing covid shots opening the border even tho its against the law pushed climate B S on country I could write a book about WORTHLESS Biden since 1972 in the senate. remember his vote in 1984 to tax social security Biden is a BUM.
Another Astroturf protest financed by Marxists and foreign governments! These are the SAME people who were “MoveOn,” “Occupy Wall Street,” “BLM,” “George Floyd” participants! The faces are the same; only the made-up cause is different. And, like the others, it is based on a lie! Trump didn’t force people to get an untried shot or be fired or restricted them from visiting sick and dying relatives!
We need to show these lunkhead sheeple that AMERICA has ALREADY had a man who was born a KING and later became the President of the United States. Leslie Lynch King Jr. [aka Gerald R. Ford]. Therefore, anyone with only a single brain cell, knowing the ego of President Trump, would know he would never be interested in becoming the SECOND KING. Instead of listening to the lies of our radical socialist marionettes, learn who’s really pulling their strings and what their true aim is for our country. Do your own research, make your own decisions, DON’T FOLLOW any Judas goats.
These marches show us just how many have mental problems in this country.
Just to let you know, the protest in my small community (100,000) Saturday was only about 3000 to 4000 people. Out of 100,000 that is only 3 to 4% of the community’s population! That means 97% or 96% was not protesting their cause! So that could be a hopeful sign.
The other issue I am one of the “old white haired people” not protesting and I was appalled with how many hippie and middle age people were protesting, more of them than my age group!
I was not aware of a protest until I tried, with family, to celebrate, at one of the town’s restaurants, a birthday lunch. We ended up on the fringe of town at another restaurant for lunch because of the noise and congestion with no parking available!
Too organized to be a homemade sign carrying and obedience with not stopping traffic from getting through!
The really sad part is how many delusional leftie sheep we now have in this country. This is the product of years of brainwashing that conservatives need to wake up and launch a massive information campaign to try and wake at least some of them to the truth. Sadly, too many, including many in congress, are too lazy or wimpy to do anything about it.
Gee if all the money poured into these “protests” was spent on the so-called priority projects that they are claiming need addressing then these “protests” might be considered as making sense. But all are just noise events that accomplish nothing except provide those attending a mouthpiece of notoriety on social media for that coveted 15 minutes of fame which seems to be more important than actual understanding the truth of the matter they are claiming is a problem. It’s easier to believe the popular opinion than thinking about facts. Nobody is perfect especially those in power positions that they have because of money. And we should expect that those who get paid to organize these gatherings to not be very forthcoming with details because they don’t want to lose their cash off the books money source
If the left succeeds in getting back into power…….all hell is going to break loose…….A lot of people (like me) that are retired and their Social Security income represents a large chunk of their monthly income will see a reevaluation on whether we are worthy to receive our hard earned benefits………You think that I am crazy?????……….Just ask the J’6ers who spent almost 4 years in a DC dungeon waiting for trial or be forced to admitt wrong doing for just expressing their 1st amendment rights.
it’s reached the point I feel like I’m trapped in a Mel Brooks or Monty Python movie…
The democrats on the LEFT have no soul. They are haters and bullies!
Why do conservatives care what the brain-dead loonies on the left protest about? We all know this protest is a nothing burger and is just another attempt by soros and his commie/socialist buddies to try to bring down America. Soros and his billion$ has made himself king over those gullible morons. The people who attend those protests are lonely people, many of whom are elderly and have nothing in their lives because their families have abandoned them, and the others are loners who refuse to move out of their parents’ house and suffer from some sort of mental illness (just a postulation, not a diagnosis). The Right needs to start having our own marches (not protests) in support of our natioin, our President, our military and everything this nation was founded on. We need to applaud those LEGAL immigrants who have worked their way to citizenship and are working to become productive members of society.
This is what Bolsheviks do, they throw any crap up on the wall hoping that some of it will stick.
Camera teams should be sent to protests to record crimes and identify perpetrators.
Protesting while wearing masks should be outlawed. Facial recognition and AI may make identifying violent individuals much easier. Those genuine “insurrectionists,” who riot and commit felonies (arson, assault, vandalism, injuring law enforcement personnel, etc.) should be arrested, jailed, and prosecuted.
The worst trouble-makers among them should be charged with crimes calling for mandatory 5 to 10 years imprisonment.
They could then be offered IMMUNITY if they will provide enough evidence to arrest those socialist billionaires—or their subordinates—who recruited them and paid them to raise hell. As the old saying goes, there is no honor among thieves.
Most of these protests are funded by Sores and his crowd. Time to deal with these PAID protesters. When they start tearing things up it is time for the live rounds to come out. Peaceful protest is legal and should be protected. When they start burning, tearing things and putting people at risk it is time to stop them hard.
IF THEY WERE DOING ANY GOOD, WHY DO THEY KEEP HAVING THEM?
I think they (the dems) thought of B.O. and Joe as kings: ha, ha, ha!!!