Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators packed streets and parks in more than two thousand protest rallies across the country to reject the policies pushed by President Donald Trump.
 

by Guillermo Alvarado

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, according to authorities, and millions according to organizers, packed streets and parks in more than two thousand protest rallies across the country to reject the policies pushed by President Donald Trump.

It was an immense No to the reduction of public services, particularly budget and personnel cuts in health and education, the militarization of repression against demonstrations and the climate of terror implanted against immigrants, whatever their legal status.

“We have no kings” was the theme raised nationally in a clear repudiation of the bombastic diatribes of the head of the White House, who that same day “treated himself” to a military parade in Washington to celebrate his birthday.

It was very striking that in several places among those who expressed their dissatisfaction with the president were precisely retirees from different branches of the Army.

“Trump's parade is not about patriotism, it's about power,” said veteran Naveed Shah, one of the speakers in Philadelphia.

Martin Luther King, son of the iconic civil rights fighter said he was deeply concerned about the use of fear as a weapon, scapegoating immigration and silencing the voice of the people with martial force.

A retired combatant with the rank of captain pointed out that while the Marines are allowed to terrorize communities, the taxes paid by the people are used for the dictatorial fantasies of the president and to bomb and starve children, the country does not deserve the sacrifice of the military.

Large cities, such as Chicago and New York, or small rural communities, were the scene of the gigantic protest, the first mass protest in the United States against the whims of Donald Trump, inside and outside the country.

An article in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, written by its correspondents in the northern country, David Brooks and Jim Cason, points out that in reference to the marches against him, the president said “no, we are not a king”, using the plural like the old-fashioned European monarchs.

What must be recognized to the capricious tycoon is that he broke a record in his term of office, since he has not yet been in office for five months, and he has already turned a large part of the people against him, a record.