Anti-Trump protests in several US cities with thousands of participants

The announced protests against President Donald Trump began in several US cities on Saturday. Around 1000 people gathered in the US capital Washington, several thousand people flocked together in the East Coast metropolis Philadelphia.

According to the organizers, there were planned demonstrations under the motto “No Kings” (“No Kings”) in more than 1,500 cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Seattle, Atlanta and Palm Beach.

The organizers had called for this to protest in the greatest demonstrations since Trump’s office in January against “Authoritarianism, billionaire-up policy and the militarization of our democracy”.

According to the organizers, around 25,000 participants were expected in Los Angeles. In the second largest US city, in which significant protests against deportions of irregular migrants were occasionally escalated in the past few days, armed soldiers of marine incorporation were deployed.

Trump had arranged the commitment of 700 members of the Marines in Los Angeles, which was actually intended for combat missions abroad, after he had already created 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard in the California metropolis against the will of the local authorities. The Republican justified the step with the fact that the protests in Los Angeles had come out of control against the hard acting against immigrants arranged by his government.

In Washington, a large military parade on the 250th day of the US Army was also to take place in Washington on Saturday. The date of the parade coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday. Possible counter -demonstrators threatened Trump with “very hard procedure” if you try to disturb the event.