More than 1,200 rallies rally worldwide protest Trump and Musk

“Hands Off” protesters successful Manhattan.

People are gathering successful cities each implicit the United States and globally to protest an “illegal, billionaire powerfulness grab” by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They’re being enactment connected by implicit 150 antithetic organizations, including civilian rights groups, labour unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span much than 1,200 locations.

Last weekend, “Tesla Takedown” protests targeted Tesla showrooms astir the state to amusement disapproval for Musk, its CEO, who has spearheaded an effort to transportation retired wide national workforce layoffs and hollow retired authorities agencies. As Tesla’s income person plummeted this quarter, Musk has threatened to “go after” the company’s critics, portion the FBI has created a task force to analyse idiosyncratic acts of vandalism and different actions aimed astatine the company.

The scope of these protests is overmuch broader, targeting some Trump and Musk, who the Hands Off website accuses (accurately) of “shuttering Social Security offices, firing indispensable workers, eliminating user protections, and gutting Medicaid.” The Verge’s Mia Sato is successful Manhattan’s Bryant Park successful New York City, wherever she took the supra video. She told maine it wasn’t wide however galore radical are there, but that it’s “wall to partition everywhere” contempt the information that it’s “raining present and truly nasty.”

My workfellow Lauren Feiner, who attended the protestation successful Washington, DC, said the protestation determination “is precise big, thousands present astir the Washington monument.” She described it arsenic “very peaceful and orderly,” with attendees listening softly to the speakers, occasionally chanting successful response.

Jessica Toman, who went to the protestation successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, texted the supra representation to me. A idiosyncratic posting images of the aforesaid protest connected Bluesky guessed that protesters numbered successful the thousands.

It looks similar a similar communicative successful Boston, wherever “thousands” are seen successful this video from today:

Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul posted aerial footage of a monolithic assemblage gathered astatine the State Capitol gathering successful St. Paul, Minnesota:

Demonstrators gathered successful monolithic numbers successful Daley Plaza successful Chicago, Illinois, too, wherever a CBS Chicago livestream showed what looked similar galore thousands of radical streaming from 1 broadside of the thoroughfare to different for galore blocks portion this communicative was being written. Protests are besides taking spot overseas, successful cities similar Berlin, Germany and London, England.

It’s not conscionable major cities. Hundreds look to person shown up to protestation successful cities like St. Augustine, Florida, which the US Census Bureau estimates has little than 16,000 people, and Riverhead, New York, wherever lone about 36,000 radical live. Cars honked successful evident enactment of a protestation successful Manhattan, Kansas (under 54,000 residents), according to the Bluesky idiosyncratic who posted this video:

A akin country plays retired successful this video, seemingly taken successful Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a municipality of less than 4,000 people, today:

Here’s a assemblage with immoderate much images taken by Sato, Toman, and The Verge’s Chris Welch: