Anti-Trump protesters turn out to rallies

in New York, Washington and other cities across country

Anti- Trump protesters on Saturday, April 19, 2025, took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S.

The Associated Press reports that the protesters decried what they saw as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals.

The protests ranged from:

• a march through midtown Manhattan and,
• a rally in front of the White House,

to a demonstration at a Massachusetts commemoration marking the start of the American Revolutionary War 250 years ago.

Thomas Bassford drove from his home some three hours away in Maine to witness the reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and “the shot heard ’round the world” on April 19, 1775.

This was said to have heralded the start of the nation’s war for independence from Britain.

The 80-year-old retired mason said he believed Americans today are under attack from their own government and need to stand up against it.

The protests come just two weeks after similar nationwide protests against the Trump administration drew thousands to the streets across the country.

Organizers say they are protesting against what they view as Trump’s civil rights and constitutional violations.

According to them, these include efforts to deport scores of immigrants and scale back the federal government by firing thousands of government workers and effectively shutter entire agencies.

Some of the events drew on the spirit of the American Revolutionary War, calling for “no kings” and resistance to tyranny.

Boston resident George Bryant, said he was concerned that Trump was creating a “police state” in America.

He held up a sign saying, “Trump fascist regime must go now!”

Bryant was among those protesting in Concord, a Boston suburb.

“He’s defying the courts. He’s kidnapping students. He’s eviscerating the checks and balances,” Bryant said.

“This is fascism.”

In Washington, Bob Fasick said he came out to the rally by the White House out of concern about:

• threats to constitutionally protected due process rights, and,
• Social Security and other federal safety-net programs.

The Trump administration, among other things:

• has moved to shutter Social Security Administration field offices,
• cut funding for government health programs and,
• scale back protections for transgender people.

The 76-year-old Fasick, a retired federal employee from Springfield, Virginia, said:

“I cannot sit still knowing that if I don’t do anything and everybody doesn’t do something to change this, that the world that we collectively are leaving for the little children, for our neighbors is simply not one that I would want to live.”

And in Manhattan, protesters rallied against continued deportations of immigrants.

They reportedly marched from the New York Public Library north towards Central Park past Trump Tower.

“No fear, no hate, no ICE in our state,” they chanted to the steady beat of drums, referring to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Marshall Green, who was among the protesters, said he was most concerned that Trump has invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Green highlighted Trump’s claim that the country is at war with Venezuelan gangs linked to the South American nation’s government.

“Congress should be stepping up and saying no, we are not at war. You cannot use that,” the 61 year-old Morristown, New Jersey resident said.

“You cannot deport people without due process, and everyone in this country has the right to due process no matter what.” he added.

Meanwhile Melinda Charles, of Connecticut, said she worried about Trump’s “executive overreach.”

She cited clashes with the federal courts to Harvard University and other elite colleges.

“We’re supposed to have three equal branches of government and to have the executive branch become so strong,” she said.

“I mean, it’s just unbelievable,” she added.

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