Democrats in the House and Senate on Saturday afternoon took to social media to show their support for the thousands of “No Kings” protests across the country demonstrating against the leadership of President Donald Trump.
More than 2,500 protests were coordinated for Saturday across major cities as well as suburbs and small towns in blue and red states, protesting the “authoritarian” tactics of Trump and other MAGA Republicans.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) posted a video address on social media, in which he lambasted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s comments earlier this week calling the scheduled protests “anti-American.”
“Showing up to express dissent against an out-of-control administration, that’s as American as motherhood, baseball, and apple pie. That’s the First Amendment,” Jeffries said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) posted photos of himself with protesters at the New York City demonstration, which was expected to be one of the largest in the country.
Schumer’s signage at the event focused on the “healthcare crisis” looming if Republicans and Democrats cannot come to an agreement to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for Obamacare insurance plans and scale back the GOP’s reductions in Medicaid spending.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) also participated in the NYC rally, holding a “No Kings” banner alongside other protesters.
“The President answers to the Constitution and the American people, not the other way around,” he posted on X. “We will continue fighting in the courts, in Congress, and on the streets here in New York and across America.”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) posted a video of himself on X standing with protesters, starting a chant of “This is what democracy looks like,” a phrase that has been used in left-wing protest demonstrations for more than a decade.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) posted a video quoting several of the grievances against the British crown cited in the Declaration of Independence as reasons to form a new government.
Schiff specifically mentioned the declaration’s protestation against the British use of standing armies in American colonial cities, indirectly referring to ICE officers and National Guard troops deployed in American cities to enforce Trump’s immigration agenda.
“When a leader forgets those truths, when he tries to bend the law to his own will, when he treats dissent as disloyalty and truth as treason, then it is up to us to remind him who is in charge,” Schiff said in his video address.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also harkened back to the American Revolution in her X post about the protest, highlighting the thousands of protesters who demonstrated in Boston Common.
“Boston has been defying kings since we threw the tea into the Harbor in 1773,” Warren quipped, referring to the Boston Tea Party.
