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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
PHOTOS: No Kings protests against Trump held across East Texas
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – On Saturday, people across the United States and East Texas were out protesting against the policies of President Donald Trump. Protesters crowd into streets, parks and plazas at anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations across US 'No Kings' protests were held in Longview, Mineola and Lufkin on Saturday afternoon, ahead of Tyler's 'No Kings' protest which started at 5 p.m. in Bergfeld Park. 'In America, we don't put up with would-be kings. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies,' an event description for the protests said. 'We've watched as they've cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens and defied the courts. They've done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies.' The following photos were compiled by KETK from Saturday's protests: The following counter-protesters were seen near the No Kings protest in Tyler on Saturday: Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Large crowds demonstrate, march at anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest in Denver
Large crowds peacefully gathered in front of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver Saturday to take part in one of several anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies in Colorado and across the country.
Fox News
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Dem lawmaker sparks social media firestorm with 'cringe' anti-Trump guitar performance: 'Talk about tone-deaf'
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Georgia, garnered some backlash from conservatives on social for a rendition of "Hey Joe," which was made popular by Jimi Hendrix and other artists in the '60s, which he retooled as a criticism of President Donald Trump. "I hate to hurt your ears and everything, but I'm just learning to play guitar," he said in a video posted to X on Wednesday, adding that he was inspired by Black Music Month to provide political commentary through song. He noted that he was "just learning to play guitar," then proceeded to sing an anti-Trump parody of the famous song. "Hey Trump, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?" Johnson sang. "I'm goin' down the street to shoot democracy. You know I wanna be a king someday." As of Friday afternoon, the video had received over 800 comments on the platform, most of which were criticisms from conservatives. "Talk about Tone-Deaf messaging!" Media Research Center posted on X. "Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson releases hilariously bad anti-Trump song, and you just have to hear this." "This would make Jimi Hendrix advocate for a ground war with Iran," Josh Holmes, co-host of the Ruthless Podcast, posted on X. "Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson sings an Anti-Trump song on his guitar about Trump shooting down Democracy with a gun to be a king," conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok posted on X. "Yes, this is real…." Another user simply quipped, "I love the internet." "Heyyy Hank, Please tune that dang guitar if you can," another one wrote, directly pulling from the lyrics of the song. Hendrix most notably played "Hey Joe" at the notorious Woodstock Festival in 1969. "Democrats are doing another one of their cringe sing-a-longs," Ben Petersen, National War Room Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, posted on X. "This horribly sounding performance is yet another waste of our tax dollars and proof of the uselessness of the Democrat Party," conservative influencer Paul A. Szypula posted on X. "Ok. A few things. If you're going to do a song like this, it's best to tune your guitar beforehand," Jeff Charles, news editor at Townhall, posted on X. "Also, covering Jimi Hendrix when you don't know how to tune a guitar is cringe AF. The lyrics are something I could have come up with when I was five years old. I'm almost embarassed for him." "Hank Johnson - Thinks Guam can capsize… Also Hank Johnson - Thinks he can play guitar," comedian Tim Young posted on X. "He's dumber than AOC. Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson's office for comment. The video comes as Democrats continue to experiment with different social media strategies during Trump's second term and have consistently faced criticism from conservatives for doing so, including earlier this year when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats were lambasted online over "choose your fighter" TikTok video.
Telegraph
19-06-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Donald Trump is saving California from itself
Gavin Newsom has changed direction once again. After a brief feint as a Maga-whispering moderate, California's governor has 'woken up' in the wake of the LA immigration riots to become the self-anointed leader of the anti-Trump #Resistance. Just weeks ago, Newsom had launched a podcast, inviting Right-wing firebrands like Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and Steve Bannon as his initial guests. Progressives detested this shift. But now that he has effectively denounced Donald Trump as a 'dictator', The Daily Beast and MSNBC have been quick to celebrate his reinvention. The progressive clerisy's homepage, The Atlantic, recently dubbed Newsom 'the nation's foremost Trump foil'. Although changing colour might help with this chameleon's bid for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination, it's not good news for the long-suffering people of California. The working and middle classes don't benefit from his performative talk of avoiding tariffs and ignoring federal immigration law. What Newsom should be looking at is how to bolster California's struggling economy, which lags way behind rivals such as Texas and Florida in crucial areas like job creation. And that would mean making peace with at least some of Donald Trump's agenda. To be sure, the president's tariffs appear to be hurting California's ports and tech companies dependent on overseas manufacturing, but the state clearly needs some sort of economic paradigm change. Virtually every high wage sector has lost jobs since 2022, including business services and information, the supposed linchpins of the state's economy. All this occurred before Trump's chaotic tariff barrage. Trump's commitment to investment in new military technology and space exploration, as well as reshoring manufacturing more generally, also opens enormous opportunities for California's heavily Latino blue collar workers. Should Newsom choose to embrace the president's policies, that is. Consider space. Boosted by a huge surge of investment, space industry global revenues are up tenfold since the early 2000s, from $175 billion (£130.4 billion) in 2005 to almost $385 billion (£286.9 billion) in 2017. By 2040, the industry's annual revenues globally are projected to surpass a trillion dollars. California has a 19 per cent international share in the sector, as well as 40 per cent of the industry in the US. With Trump's backing, that could grow even further. California already enjoys by far the country's largest cohort of aerospace engineers, typically earning salaries around three times the national average. Many are employed by large contractors, but the most exciting developments can be seen in places like El Segundo, which calls itself 'the aerospace capital of the world', and Douglas Park, next to the Long Beach airport. If Newsom would wake up from his dogmatic slumbers, he would realise that 'deep tech' firms in space and aerospace likely have a far better future than traditional consumer and media-oriented firms like Salesforce, Meta, and Google. In part due to artificial intelligence, all have announced major cutbacks. Even many 'creative jobs' – actors, writers, journalists – could be threatened by AI generated content. In contrast, hardware engineers, skilled machinists, and the builders and designers of spacecraft, drones, space mining operations and new engine systems could share an expansive future. The aerospace boom is being driven by more than just a few brilliant geeks backed up by H1-B visa indentured servants. Aerospace firms have their share of PhDs, but they also employ welders and other production workers. In a state that has been very hard on blue collar workers, this should be embraced, even if it reflects Trumpian priorities. There are further opportunities for California among Trump's policy objectives. The president wants to revive the US shipbuilding industry, and California was once critical to constructing America's 'arsenal of democracy'. One place that could benefit is Solano County in the Bay Area, which once was home to Liberty ship production. Even virulently anti-Trump Hollywood could see advantages. This Newsom-aligned industry is now losing employment at a fearful rate, down more than one-third over the past 10 years, with 18,000 full time positions disappearing in just the past three. Tariffs may not be what the industry needs – it's already too dependent on cheaper, highly subsidised foreign productions – but the people who work in it would benefit if California and the Trump White House devised an incentive package to reverse off-shore production. And then there is housing, a prime concern for most Californians. The federal government is the nation's biggest landowner and owns roughly half of California. Republicans have floated the idea of selling federal lands as an option for closing the deficit. Federal lands adjacent to the state's large urban areas also could create, in selected places, an opportunity for new housing that could dodge many of California's currently stifling regulations. But perhaps Trump's biggest gift would be to push California politics back towards the centre, including on immigration. Due to Trumpian cutbacks, Newsom is being forced to abandon his dream of providing free health services to all undocumented immigrants. Now that the state is suffering a severe deficit, Washington is unlikely to send money to preserve Newsom's dreamscape. Of course Newsom blames the current budget deficit on Trump, although he does not explain why many other states, including archrivals Texas and Florida, enjoy surpluses. California would do far better if its governor focused on how to take advantage of Trump's initiatives. After all, Maga will be in office at least until 2028. Californians can enjoy the fruits of Trump's policies even as they grumble darkly about him.
The Guardian
19-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
The anti-Trump camp was in disarray. How has No Kings managed to unite it?
Two months ago, around the US, mass demonstrations against Donald Trump were organised in what felt like the beginning of the great unfreezing of the popular movement. Since the inauguration in January there have been plenty of ad-hoc anti-Trump protests, but compared to the huge numbers that turned out in 2017 – half a million at the Women's March in Washington DC alone – the response has been muted. What was the point? The threat was so large, and the failure of the first movement apparently so great, that Americans have been suffering from what appeared to be a case of embarrassed paralysis: a sense, at once sheepish and depressed, that pink hats weren't moving the needle on this one. It looks as if that thinking has changed. On Saturday, in a follow-up to the protests in April, more than 2,000 coordinated marches took place in the US, organised by multiple groups under the umbrella No Kings Day and attended by numbers that at a glance seem startling. While in the capital on Saturday, Trump oversaw his weird, sparsely attended Kim Jong-un style military parade, an estimated 5 million people country-wide took to the streets to protest peacefully against him, including an estimated 80,000 in Philadelphia, 75,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix, and 7,000 in Honolulu. More heartening still were the numbers from deep red states, such as the 2,000 odd protesters who gathered in Mobile, Alabama, and a reported 4,000 in Louisville, Kentucky. These protests were different in nature to their earlier incarnations, according to the accounts of some of those in attendance. I was in New York last month and friends who'd been at the march in April recounted, with amusement and despair, how few young people had shown up. In addition, said a friend, an elderly demonstrator marching close to them had shushed the crowd and put her fingers in her ears, and another set of women had started dancing, obliviously, to the music being played by pro-Trump counter-protesters on the sidelines. All successful protests require participants to forgive each other their differences, but we shook with laughter as he told us how hopeless and uninspiring – 'it's a protest sweetie, what did you expect?' – he'd found some of his fellow marchers. It was a different story on Saturday. The crowds were bigger – by some estimates, the largest country-wide demonstrations ever recorded – younger, more energised and more focused. There was, I gather, a sense of urgency unleashed by the feeling not only that these protests were long overdue but that, after Trump's deployment of the national guard in LA, some critical line had been crossed. Meanwhile, as a unifying slogan, the No Kings thing really seems to be working. When I first heard the phrase I thought it was limp – my forelock-tugging Pavlovian response to the word 'king' and any reference to monarchy, I guess. I forgot: Americans presented with the same word go to George III not Charles III, and the signs on Saturday took up No Kings with real relish. This is a significant victory, given how hard it is to unite diverse constituencies under a single, snappy umbrella. There were a lot of very funny signs on the marches (some standouts: 'Only he could ruin tacos'; 'If Kamala were president we'd be at brunch' and my favourite, 'Trump cheats at golf'.) But overarching them all was a slogan that in the most efficient way possible presented multiple groups with a non-partisan way to come out against Trump. So far, No Kings has also avoided some of the mistakes of the Women's March, in which the celebrity of the organisers came to overshadow and poison the movement. The No Kings motif was coined earlier this year by the progressive group 50501 – the name is a reference to 50 protests, 50 states, one movement – and was created before the 17 February demonstrations as an alternative to the hashtag #NotMyPresidentsDay, which it was felt, shrewdly, struck the wrong tone. Instead, the group launched the phrase 'No Kings on Presidents Day,' which by this month had compacted down into No Kings Day. As yet, 50501, which grew out of a Reddit post, has no identifiable leaders. This makes it a much harder target for Trump's 'black propagandists' to divide protesters via their political differences. Instead, No Kings seems to be offering a very broad on-ramp to protesters by way of a story that is simple and true: that opposition to Trump's autocratic style is an act of patriotism with its roots in the country's very foundations. Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
