Crowds of individuals protested Saturday (March 29, 2026) in opposition to the battle in Iran and President Donald Trump’s actions, in “No Kings” rallies throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
Minnesota took centre stage, in what organisers anticipated to be mass demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Hundreds of individuals stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the Minnesota Capitol garden and surrounding streets in St. Paul. Some held the other way up U.S. flags, traditionally an indication of misery.
The occasion’s headliner was Bruce Springsteen, who carried out “ Streets of Minneapolis,” He wrote the track in response to the deadly shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal brokers and in tribute to the 1000’s of Minnesotans who took to the streets over the winter to protest the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.
Earlier than he launched into the track, Springsteen lamented Good and Pretti’s deaths however stated individuals’s continued pushback in opposition to US. Customs and Immigration Enforcement has given the remainder of the nation hope.
“Your power and your dedication advised us that this was nonetheless America,” he stated. “And this reactionary nightmare, and these invasions of American cities, won’t stand.” Folks rallied from New York Metropolis, with virtually 8.5 million residents in a solidly blue state, to Driggs, a city of fewer than 2,000 individuals in japanese Idaho, a state Mr. Trump carried with 66% of the vote in 2024.
Largest crowds but anticipated
U.S. organisers have estimated that the primary two rounds of No Kings rallies drew greater than 5 million individuals in June and seven million in October. This week, they advised reporters they anticipated 9 million contributors on Saturday (March 28, 2026), although it was too early to inform whether or not these expectations had been met.
Organisers stated greater than 3,100 occasions — 500 greater than in October — had been registered, in all 50 states.
In Topeka, Kansas, a rally exterior the Statehouse had individuals impersonating a frog king and Mr. Trump as a child. Wendy Wyatt drove with “Cats Towards Mr. Trump” signal from Lawrence, 20 miles to the east, and deliberate to drive again to her hometown for a later rally there.
Wyatt stated, “There are such a lot of issues” in regards to the Trump administration that upset her, however “that is very hopeful to me.” GOP officers dismissive of protests, White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson characterised them because the product of “leftist funding networks” with little actual public assist.
The “solely individuals who care about these Mr. Trump Derangement Remedy Classes are the reporters who’re paid to cowl them,” Jackson stated in an announcement.
The Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee was additionally sharply vital.
“These Hate America Rallies are the place the far-left’s most violent, deranged fantasies get a microphone,” NRCC spokesperson Maureen O’Toole stated.
Protesters have an extended record of trigger
Trump’s immigration enforcement push, notably in Minnesota, was only one merchandise on an extended record of protester grievances that additionally included the battle in Iran and the rollback of transgender rights.
In Washington, a whole bunch marched previous the Lincoln Memorial and into the Nationwide Mall, holding indicators that learn “Put down the crown, clown” and “Regime change begins at house.” Demonstrators rang bells, performed drums and chanted “No kings.” Invoice Jarcho was there from Seattle, joined by six individuals dressed as bugs carrying tactical vests that stated, “LICE” — spoofing ICE, as a part of what he referred to as a “mock and awe” tour.
“What we offer is mockery to the king,” Jarcho stated. “It’s about taking authoritarianism and making enjoyable of it, which they hate.” About 40,000 individuals marched in San Diego, police there stated.
In New York, Donna Lieberman, government director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, stated throughout a information convention that Mr. Trump and his supporters need individuals to be afraid to protest.
“They need us to be afraid that there’s nothing we will do to cease them,” she stated. “However what? They’re flawed — lifeless flawed.” Organisers stated two-thirds of RSVPs for the rallies got here from exterior of main city facilities. That included communities in conservative-leaning states like Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, South Dakota and Louisiana, as nicely in electorally aggressive suburbs in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.
Principal occasion on the Minnesota Capitol
Organisers designated the rally there because the nationwide flagship occasion. Earlier than Springsteen took the stage, organisers performed a video through which actor Robert DeNiro stated he wakes up each morning depressed due to Mr. Trump, however was happier Saturday as a result of hundreds of thousands of individuals had been protesting. He additionally congratulated Minnesotans for working ICE out of city.
The invoice additionally included singer Joan Baez, actor Jane Fonda, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and an extended record of activists, labor leaders and elected officers.
Protesters held up a large signal on the Capitol steps that learn, “We had whistles, that they had weapons. The revolution begins in Minneapolis.” Rallies exterior the U.S. Demonstrations had been additionally deliberate in additional than a dozen different nations, from Europe to Latin America to Australia, Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a gaggle spearheading the occasions, stated in an interview. In nations with constitutional monarchies, individuals name the protests “No Tyrants,” he stated.
In Rome, 1000’s marched with defiant chants geared toward Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose conservative authorities noticed its referendum for streamlining Italy’s judiciary fail badly this week amid criticism that it was a menace to the courts’ independence. Protesters additionally waved banners protesting Israeli and U.S. assaults on Iran, calling for “A world free from wars.” In London, individuals protesting the battle held banners with slogans equivalent to “Cease the far proper” and “Stand as much as Racism.” And in Paris, a number of hundred individuals, principally People dwelling in France, together with labour unions and human rights organisations, gathered on the Bastille.
“I protest all of Mr. Trump’s unlawful, immoral, reckless, and feckless, countless wars,” rally organiser Ada Shen stated.