This past weekend, some 2,000 “No Kings” protests visited American cities in opposition to President Trump’s deportation efforts after violent riots engulfed Los Angeles the week prior.
In addition to signs reading, “Due process is for everyone,” and “Immigrants make America great,” there have been numerous violent encounters between rioters and law enforcement, bystander battery and harassment, and even a shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Meanwhile, Democrat politicians posted an almost verbatim script on social media, espousing America’s greatness in defiance of tyrants. California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis remarked to MSNBC: “People are very determined to get out there and be seen. This is the United States. We do not want a king.” New York Sen. Chuck Schumer posted, “Millions of Americans are standing up today to say loud and clear: No kings in America.” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington wrote, “There are no kings in America. We need to remind ourselves that our voices are important. … That’s how we change the direction of this country. That’s what democracy is.” Illinois governor and Hyatt hotel billionaire JB Pritzker exclaimed: “Let me remind you: we don’t have kings in America – and I won’t bend the knee to one. … This is what democracy in action looks like.”
While it is a breath of fresh air to see Democrats adopting a new love for liberty, do these “No Kings” protests actually reflect a grassroots effort against “tyranny,” or are they something else entirely?
Think the ‘No Kings’ Protests Are Grassroots? Think Again
While the legacy media portrays the nationwide protests as the will of the common people, the numbers don’t lie, and it appears the so-called “voices” Democrats are celebrating are not those of regular Americans, but of billionaires and moguls who are diametrically opposed to Trump’s plan to reduce illegal migration and enforce our laws.
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealed how the “No Kings” protests were being advertised by Walmart heiress Christy Walton, a billionaire and avid Democrat funder who has given hundreds of thousands to leftist organizations like the Lincoln Project, and has opposed Trump’s tariff and immigration policies.
Indivisible, a self-proclaimed progressive, grassroots organization, took pride in organizing “No Kings” months in advance, working with a coalition of Democrat and progressive organizations to plan the nationwide protests. While Indivisible may want to appear as a genuine, grassroots movement against tyrannical Republicans, records show that the organization received $3 million in 2023 alone, and over $7 million total since 2018, from the Open Society Foundation – the radical organization formed by George Soros to spread Marxist propaganda such as mass migration policy, and to destabilize America by funding terrorist sympathizers.
It is obvious just how influential some of these “No Kings” funders are. Data compiled from DataRepublican shows involvement by the ACLU, the Action Network Fund, the American Federation of Teachers, Black Voters Matter Fund Inc., and other entities, many of which receive millions of dollars in federal grants. Contributions are also tied to local branches of AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, which has reported receiving over $59 million in federal grants in 2022 and an additional $69 million in 2023. DataRepublican warned that the AFL-CIO is one of America’s “soft-power” NGOs known for effecting global regime change: “That AFL-CIO is openly involved in sponsoring the No Kings rally should raise extreme concerns as to the rally’s true purpose.”
There is also a suspected Chinese Communist Party connection—the Chinese Progressive Association—which indirectly funds protests through its donations to leftist Black Voters Matter.
“No Kings” doesn’t sound like your average “mom-and-pop” grassroots protest – unless the moms and pops are billionaires and leftist NGOs looking to destabilize American communities.
Protesters Turn a Blind Eye to Democrats’ Deportation Efforts
The legacy media would have us believe that “No Kings” is an organic, democratic movement to take the country back from an orange-haired dictator – despite the fact that Trump uncontestably won the 2024 presidential election. The numbers don’t lie: “No Kings” is an artificial attempt by leftist billionaires to accuse Trump of what Democrats have been doing for decades.
While protesters oppose Trump’s deportations, they conveniently forget that President Bill Clinton deported over 12 million illegals, and President Barack Obama, the aptly named “Deporter-in-Chief,” deported over 5 million, with 3 million formally removed—the majority of whom were summarily deported without any due process—something leftists only obsess over when Republicans are in power. In fact, Trump has deported fewer people than Obama did, yet protesters would have us believe Trump is “literally Hitler.” Ironic, considering these same people fanatically supported Democrats’ COVID policies, which saw people detained, fined, and arrested for refusing to comply with draconian “health mandates.”
The media wants you to believe that these protests are organic reactions to Trump’s mandate to uphold the law and secure America’s borders. To the contrary, the marches are nothing more than choreographed PR events, orchestrated by leftist elites who would rather be kings in their own right than help American citizens prosper.
Connor Vasile is a political commentator and analyst, and the author of “The State Knows Best” and “I’m Joe Biden: In His Own Words.”
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Connor Vasile.
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Clearly liberals don’t think it’s tyrannical to import 12 million strangers into our country against the law. Did anyone have a chance to vote to open the borders? Did Congress approve it?
THAT was tyranny! Biden was the tyrant!
“We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus” (Yeshua) ~ John Adams, April 18 1775
Democrats will tell you you are not allowed to own a gasoline car, a plastic straw, a gas stove, a gas lawn mower, that you must recognize a man as a woman or vice-versa,, allow boys in your girls bathrooms, tell you to accept that illegal migrants are not breaking the law, quarantine you in your home and close your church or business if there is a “pandemic”. They want to call Trump a king, I call them a dictator.
Due process for everyone, yes and had all the illegals went through it before entering. there wound not be a need to protest and demand on their behalf. They were not processed, that makes them illegal, we do have laws, obey them and all will be well.All the businesses using them should pay for their keep.
Democrats are working for themselves and the Chinese government, they are enemies to America and the American people!
Time to boycott those businesses that are sending money to these Demos — Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and McDonalds for example. Consumers can do a good number to those businesses that are supporting the Left.
These protesters have no clue. I believe they are paid .If not they must have nothing else to do. Their protest is for nothing. Protesting because the law is being enforced is really stupid.
Of course there are no kings here. The Dems are doing what they have always done, which is to inaccurately “redefine” their political opposition as something that the public and their own supporters might find easier and more gratifying to attack. In other words, they still mislead.
Not only that, it proves that they’ll do anything for money. They were all paid. It’s amazing like the lady that’s the Walmart heiress that is wealthy because of capitalism spending her money to try and destroy the country that made her Grand father wealthy. And made her rich. A bunch of freaking idiots protesting in the freest country in the world about their lack of ability to protest. Oh and you know why they always call them peaceful protests even when they know they’re not going to be? The courts have long determined that organizers of protests are not liable for any damage if the protests were peaceful or we’re organized as peaceful protests. The Democrats are slime balls and they always play the long game
Wasn’t the Occupy Wall Street protest funded by the same people? So many useful idiots. Maybe those are the ones we should be deporting.
So true, how quickly they forget. When the Democrats were in the White House under Biden they were lording it over the American people and acting like the Gestapo. They went after anyone who did not bend to their will or stood up to them. They say “No King” but forget they supported a person and party who wanted and still do want to be your rulers. They want you working for them, not the other way.
Spoiled brat children that scream at the top of their lungs to the flavor of the day. If they were to up the ante and get more serious, they would find out the true mettle of their opposition.
Only riot when NOT in power
This whole thing was a FARCE and the idiots involved know it. Trump has done NOTHING to be called a “king.” He didn’t shut down churches and fire brave service personnel who wouldn’t take experimental “vaccines.” That was Senile Joe and Dr. FALSIE.
Time to make, with extreme force, these Anarchists go away. Their actions illustrates “why” you wouldn’t want them in any Political Office, holding any position of responsibilty, at anytime, whatsoever! These people are your Radical Progressive Leftist Democrats borne out of the Communist Manifesto. They want total control of every aspect of your life, seeking any means necessary to achieve this end game. And, their Religion is Atheistic Humanism. They abide by no Law(s) unless they’re the Architect of it. May people begin looking at these Obstructionist, questioning if this is what you truly desire for yourself. You get what you pay/vote for!
Every day that news comes out about Democrat action it only makes the label “hypocrite” stick more tightly. Rules for thee, but not for me is their mantra. Along with “the ends justify the means”.
They have a very convenient way of totally forgetting their behavior when the show was on the other foot. It’s what useful idiots and their overlords do. There are no rules in the dogma of Marxism and other far left wing idiotologies. What ever doe the trick. Lies, gaslighting, truth by omission, hyperbole, denial, you name it.
How did Clinton deport 12 million without any notice……Did they all volunteer?
Take a good look at many of sick perverts shouting “NO KINGS” ( which this country does not have) I’ll bet if they had it their way we be ruled by a QUEEN!!!
Wonder what the change would be if the left spent more time working toward making the path to citizenship easier for those who want to come to our country instead of all this protesting. At least their energy might make a positive difference. People would have to be thoroughly vetted to meet our standards to live here. I’m sure that would be the next object of their protests. They just don’t have any standards that meet those of the country. Maybe they should just be deported to Venezuela and start their own country over there. Then they would only have themselves to protest against.
To understand the Democrats thinking, you must first pay careful attention to what they say you should believe, what they say you should do and how they say you should vote. They want you, not the Elite Democrats in Congress, but you the Taxpayer, to support and step in line with whatever their latest dictate is, without comment and definitely without any question of their authority over you. Those who are in favor of the One World Order, in addition to those in Congress, mainly the Gates, Zuckerberg’s, Soros’ of this Country are apparently blind to the fact that there are Countries out there who hate one another, have never gotten along and never will. How might Open Borders and Socialism work there? Those Democrats who are ordinary Tax Paying Citizens who are nodding their heads yes at everything they are told by MSM and Congress, seriously missed an important part of their education by not studying and/or paying attention in History classes, if those are even allowed anymore. Take a really good look at how the Citizens of Russia, China, North Korea, to name a few, live. Where do they live? How do they earn a living? Do they own a home? Where do they work? Where do they shop? Are they free to travel our of their Country? Are you free to travel around in their Country?
Before you blindly follow along with what you are being told to believe, ask questions, do research and learn from the mistakes of the past.
Agree where is this “town”??? Is it in the United States?
A bunch of hypocrites and paid lunatics! What is the USA coming to? So much violence coming from Democrats and planned riots, definitely NOT peaceful protests. Time to deport these idiots…
A ‘king’ will always work to make government bigger and freedom smaller.
Trump (and Musk) have been working to make government smaller.
Liberals just want more government (‘taking’ freedom away from the ‘makers’)
Now come the invaders, taking handouts from the makers thru THEIR liberal kings
WHy aren’t the activist judges included in their “no kings” protests? The activist judges act more like kings than any President has, except maybe for FDR.
The democrats are manipulated by so many things; they seem to fall for anything. Biden’s four years almost destroyed America. Unbelievable so many bad things happened.
LOL, I KNOW! Where the hell were these people for the last four years of BIDEN!!!??? And,…if they are financed by SOROS…
This is like an old country song. Soros is behind all this plus the ACLU, AFL-CIO, Teachers Union, no surprise there, Action Network Fund, Black Votes Matter Fund, Inc yet. Let’s not forget the millionaire governors of the dem states like Pritzker. These poor people who were demonstrating on Saturday thought they were protesting the rich but were working for them instead. Someone tell them that quick. Maybe they can manage to formulate a thought that what the dems accuse Trump of they are doing that in spades. Tell them Clinton deported more migrants than any president including Trump. Clinton allowed north Korea to gain a nuclear bomb. Obama allowed Iran to go forward making a nuclear bomb. And gave them billions of dollars to attack Israel via Hama as proxy. Where is Hamas now. They are not supporting Iran. They see the handwriting on the wall. Democrats are busy with insurrection to overthrow the government. Only the poor slobs in the streets don’t know that they are doing the bidding of the 1% while they were demonstrating against a king that sits in his ivory tower by the name of Soros et al. What manipulation, brainwashing and Money can’t do to overthrow a country.
This demonstration of lawlessness is not a Protest. It’s a planned brutal demonstration by the enemies of this nation to use these young, useless fools to commit violence and destruction. These young thugs were trained in guerrilla tactics. They seem to have no lack of food or weapons. The parents of these rabid animals must be proud of their children
If the enemy succeeds in the destruction of this country, the first thing they will do is eliminate these so-called protesters. And you know what is meant by eliminate. An example is Fidel Castro, who eliminated his useful idiots.
They decry “No Kings” but they sure didn’t mind running a woman for President who never received a vote to get to that position…No King…but a “Queen” is alright for them. Hypocrisy thy name is Dimocrat.
News flash to the Democrats, Biden was never MY president! Actually in terms of being legitimately elected it is probable that Joe was NO ONE’S president!
These ALWAYS angry, ignorantly arrogant, moronic, delusional, brainwashed, America-hating, Socialist/Commie No King-er anarchists need to join Ellen DeGenerate and whacko Rosie O’dumbell and DEPORT THEMSELVES.
Progressive Liberals have nothing common with a Christian Moral Society. Trying to point these people in the Right Direction through Evidential Truth, they ignorantly, foolishly, reject it to Personal Detriment. Disturbing!
Bunch of screaming white women. How about they take their noise to a Muslim country where they do have a king?
Toothless support group for those with terminal TDS.
Hypocrisy is woven deep into the fabric of the democratic party.
So, who is the “king” in charge of this fiasco “No King”?
Anything the Dumbassocrats accuse the GOP of doing, they (the Dumbassocrats) have been doing for DECADES.
We got rid of King George years ago, should we get rid of Rodney King and Martin Luther King as well?
“Contributions are also tied to local branches of AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, which has reported receiving over $59 million in federal grants in 2022 and an additional $69 million in 2023.” Why is a union getting federal grants–taxpayer money?
That ‘Show’ is already fizzling. So,who cares.
do-nothings ALWAYS
Hey Lou, where is this “small town”, and how do you know whether or not they were ALL citizens of that town? Why should “Be careful how you depict this.” be stated? Do you have violent plans if someone doesn’t agree with you? Or questions you? What’s your real FULL name?
I think the whole point is that Trump had this parade on his birthday & it was very similar to the parades by North Korea military. If this parade cost $45 million, I assume that Trump has money & should give this much to Wounded Warriors or to VA hospitals. He said he would be dictator on day one, and this parade was not on day one.
Be careful how you depict this. A lot of it was a “grass roots” movement. I live in a small town of about 6,000. We had 2,600 at our “No Kings.” Nobody bussed in, no choreography, and no money from “leftist billionaires.” Nobody from the ACLU, the Action Network Fund, the American Federation of Teachers, or Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. There were a lot of veterans however, including a disproportionate number of Vietnam vets. Maybe things were different in big cities, but not in a lot of smaller towns across America.