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Big Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk Protests Around the Country – HotAir

April 7, 2025
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The resistance is back. Liberals put together some large protests over the weekend in several cities around the country. There are claims that as many as 600,000 people participated but that’s really just a guess.





Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump’s agenda. Rallies were planned in all 50 states, and images posted on social media showed dense crowds in places as diverse as St. Augustine, Fla.; Salt Lake City and rainy Frankfort, Ky…

While crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, organizers said that more than 600,000 people had signed up to participate and that events also took place in U.S. territories and a dozen locations across the globe.

On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the protest stretched for nearly 20 blocks. In Chicago, thousands flooded Daley Plaza and adjacent streets, while, in the nation’s capital, tens of thousands surrounded the Washington Monument. In Atlanta, the police estimated the crowd marching to the gold-domed statehouse at over 20,000.

These were dubbed the “Hands Off” protests which is a name that suggests they don’t represent anything in particular beyond rejection of Trump and Musk, i.e. the people currently cutting the size of government. Let’s take a look at some images and video. First up here’s New York City. This person is estimating 100,000 people which seems really high to me, but it’s definitely a large crowd.





This person puts the estimate at 10,000 people.

Another overhead view:

It’s a lot of people but the crowd isn’t that dense in many places. At this level of density 1,000 people would take up a lot of space on the street.

Moving on, there was a big protest in Chicago with several thousand people.

And in Boston:

And of course in San Francisco.





It looks like there were at least half-a-dozen protests in the Bay Area, each of them more modest in size.

The protests in LA seem smaller than expected. This report puts the crowd size at (maybe) 7,000 which isn’t that large for a county of 10 million people.

Salt Lake City, UT:

San Diego, CA:





Austin, TX:

Rep. Jayapal claimed there were 27,000 people in Seattle (7,000 people had signed up to attend, so the real number is much lower than 27,000):

Portland, OR:

Raleigh, NC:

Louisville, KY:

Philadelphia, PA:





Cincinnati, OH:

Miami, FL:

Some smaller cities had protests of a few hundred. Here’s Pasadena, CA:

There are lots more but you get the idea. They did have nationwide turnout in most big blue cites and some smaller ones. New York and Boston had the best turnout but Chicago and LA had several thousand people. Supposedly there were more than 1,300 separate protests but many were fairly small.

I’m sure they were hoping for a repeat of the Women’s March, but I don’t think they got there. But this Wikipedia page claims they did, saying there were 5 million marchers Saturday nationwide. The source for that claim is an anonymous Bluesky account. I think that tells you more about the mods on Wikipedia than anything else. The total number of people signed up for these events was only about 600,000.

Nearly 600,000 people had signed up to attend the events, some of which took place in major cities like London and Paris, according to Indivisible, one of the organizations leading the movement in collaboration with a nationwide coalition that includes civil rights organizations, veterans, women’s rights groups, labor unions and LGBTQ+ advocates.

CNN has not been able to independently verify how many people attended Saturday’s demonstrations, but “Hands Off!” organizers say that “millions” of people turned up from coast to coast.





This is what we see every time the left holds these kinds of mass protests. They inflate the numbers by a factor of 10 and then claim this means they have some kind of shadow mandate to do…something? 

I think the actual number of people was probably no greater than 600,000. That’s a lot of people but it’s still only works out to less than 0.2% of the population of the US. These are the same people who voted for Kamala Harris. In other words, the people who just lost the election five months ago. They can peacefully protest all they want but it doesn’t change anything. Trump won the election and he’s still the president for the next 4 years.







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