President Trump rejected the concept that he is appearing like a monarch in an interview that befell the identical day because the nation’s large “No Kings” protests.
“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump stated in an interview with Fox Information’s Maria Bartiromo recorded on Saturday, previous to the demonstrations.
Later within the day, thousands and thousands of Individuals protested the president and his administration. Roughly 2,600 demonstrations befell in all 50 states, with gatherings in small cities and main cities, together with New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Many Democratic lawmakers, together with Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, joined the activists, whereas Republicans largely backed Trump and criticized the demonstrations.
This marked the second set of No Kings protests since Trump took workplace. In June, widespread demonstrations coincided with the U.S. Military’s 250th anniversary parade within the nation’s capital, which befell on the president’s 79th birthday.
Late Saturday, Trump shared an AI-generated video to his Reality Social platform. Within the video, the president, carrying a crown, flies a fighter jet — inscribed with “King Trump” — over protesters in New York Metropolis and dumps brown liquid on them, as Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone” performs.
The protests occurred amid the continuing authorities shutdown, which started on Oct. 1. A ballot launched Thursday by The Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis discovered that 75 % of respondents blame Trump both drastically or reasonably for the shutdown.
Roughly three-quarters of respondents additionally stated Republicans and Democrats in Congress are drastically or reasonably at fault.
“We’re cutting Democrat programs that we didn’t want, because they made one mistake,” Trump advised Fox Information. “They didn’t realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera.”
Additionally in the course of the interview, the president addressed the deployment of Nationwide Guard troops to cities throughout the nation. Since Trump returned to workplace, his administration has despatched navy personnel to Los Angeles, the nation’s capital and Memphis, whereas it has encountered authorized setbacks in its deployments to Chicago and Portland, Ore.
Now, Trump has his sights set on San Francisco.
“I think they want us in San Francisco,” the president claimed. “San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then, 15 years ago, it went wrong.”
