USA and Europe: Trump faces the first mass protest

In the greatest demonstrations since Donald Trump returned to the White House, tens of thousands of people in the United States and Europe have demonstrated against the politics of the right -wing populist. In the capital Washington, more than 20,000 people moved under the motto “Finger away!” to the National Mall park near the White House to show their resentment about the Republican and his consultant Elon Musk.

The demonstrators in Washington wore signs with inscriptions such as “Not my president!”, “Stop destroying America”, “shame about Trump”, “Fingers away from the rule of law” and “Fascism is there”. A loose alliance of left-wing groups had called for protests against Trump in more than a thousand US cities.

Among other things, the demonstrators criticize Trump’s approach to migrants without a residence permit, which together with Musk has driven clearing with federal authorities and government programs as well as the president’s aggressive customs policy. They also accuse the right -wing populist to raise democracy and the rule of law.

“It is extremely worrying to see what is happening with our government and that the separation of powers is completely overrun,” said 66-year-old demonstrator Jane Ellen Saums. The civil rights activist Graylan Hagler said that the Trump government sparked “a sleeping giant”. “We won’t sit down, we won’t be silent and we won’t go away.”

It was the greatest protests against Trump since he took office in January. However, it was far fewer demonstrators than after Trump’s first take office in 2017, when a large -scale rally in Washington with the name Women’s March had taken part in half a million people alone.

Democratic MP Jamie Raskin was also among the protest participants in the US capital. No one “with a moral conscience” wants a dictator who knows the economy who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, “the leading Democrat called in the Justice Committee of the House of Representatives of the crowd.

“I wish that he was not at a golf tournament in Mar-A-Lago, but could see what happens outside here that people are out here,” said Shelly Townley in front of the White House. The 62-year-old had come from North Carolina with her husband to demonstrate in Washington.

In other US metropolises, people also followed the call of the organizers to protests against Trump and Musk. In the California Los Angeles, several women carried red robes based on the dystopian novel “The Report of the Mag” by Margaret Atwood about totalitarian companies.

In Denver in the US state of Colorado, a man in the middle of protest participants held up a poster with the inscription “No King for USA” (no king for the USA).

Demonstrations against Trump and his aggressive trade policy were also available on Saturday in European capitals such as Berlin, London, Rome and Paris. In front of the US embassy in Berlin and in front of a Tesla showroom in Berlin, several dozen demonstrators gathered. The organizers from the Tesla initiative to turn off the Hahn spoke of several hundred participants of the protest in front of the Tesla business.

One of the participants, the 80-year-old pensioner Ann Wertheimer, described Tesla boss Musk as a “danger to the whole world” at the rally. The 54-year-old demonstrator Sabine Heurs accused Musk an “attack on democracy”, “by supporting right parties or even supporting Nazi-like parties”. In London, the demonstrator Liz Chamberlin emphasized: “What happens in America is everyone’s problem.” Trump’s trade policy will cause a “worldwide recession”.

The US President has been driving a radical policy of politics since taking office, which includes, among other things, the external, migration and economic policy. The 78-year-old claims unprecedented power powers for a US president, which has led to a flood of complaints. Critics accuse Trump of causing severe damage to democracy in the country. The opposition Democrats of Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden sometimes seem paralyzed in view of the pace with which the Republican implements his agenda.