Tens of thousands of protesters deployed in cities and cities throughout the country on Saturdays to sound Trump’s administration cuts to the federal government and their policies.
Bringing homemade posters and chanting “hands,” the protesters came out to more than 1,200 national demonstrations despite rain in many cities, according to the organizer.
Some heavyweight Democrats, including several members of the congress, joined the protest and urged the public not to support what they called the wrong government and broke up with constitutional norms.
The demonstrators attended the “Hand Up” General Meeting to demonstrate the President Donald Trump at the National Mall, on April 5, 2025, in Washington, DC
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“Our founder wrote a constitution that did not begin with ‘We the Dictator,'” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Said that the crowd gathered at the National Mall in Washington, DC
He slammed the government for some of his policies, including the implementation of President Donald Trump’s tariff in almost every country.
Demonstrators united against President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk when ‘out of his hands!’ Protest on the Washington Monument page, in Washington, DC, April 5, 2025.
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“Their tariffs are not only impact – they are illegal, they are not constitutional, and we will reverse this,” he said.
Demonstrators gathered outside Minnesota State Capitol during “Hands!” National! “Protest against President Donald Trump and his advisor, CEO Tesla Elon Musk, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 5, 2025.
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Paul Osadebe, a lawyer for the Department of Housing and City Development, spoke during a general meeting in Washington and said he had been asked by the Trump government and the Government’s Efficiency Department Elon Musk to take offers of purchases.
Osadebe, a union servant with AFGE Local 476, told many people that oligarchy did not “respect you or your life or your community.”
“We see that they don’t care who they should destroy or who they should hurt to get what they want,” he said.
People take part in the national “hand”! “Anti-Trump Protest in New York, April 5, 2025.
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Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., Echoed his statement with a warning that it would be worse.
“They will make us believe that if we give them all the controls, everything will be fine,” he said. “But delivering the news, they have control, and see where we are now: large -scale inequality throughout the country.”
A demonstrators dressed like George Washington Parade during “Hands Off Massachusetts! Rally/March” in Boston, on April 5, 2025.
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Similar energy and rhetoric is present in other “hand” protests.
Demonstrators united against President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk when ‘out of his hands!’ Protest, in Asheville, North Carolina, April 5, 2025.
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People fill 5th Avenue during the demonstration against President Donald Trump, in New York, April 5, 2025.
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“The federal government thinks this country belongs to them – and that they are above the law,” said the organizer Boston Rally. “They took everything they could get – our rights, our health care, our data, our work, our services – and the world’s brave to stop them.”
People protested President Donald Trump, who was a few miles away at his Trump National Golf Club, during “Holidays!” Demonstration, April 5, 2025, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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There are no reports of large disturbances or arrests in one of the demonstrations.
The White House has no direct comments about the event.