Nationwide protests against Trump in the United States

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Nationwide protests against Trump in the United States

After weeks of shock rigid, public resistance is formed against the US President and his radical course. There are demonstrations in hundreds of places across the country.

Nationwide demonstrations against Donald Trump: In the United States, tens of thousands of people in dozens of states protested against the policy of the President. In the US capital alone, several thousand demonstrators gathered on the Washington Monument near the White House. There were also large protests in many other cities – for example in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Chicago or San Francisco. The organizers spoke of “millions” participants in a total of more than 1,300 meetings. There were no official figures or estimates.

Different organizations had called for a nationwide day of action with larger and smaller events in all US states – under the motto “Hands away”, for example, hands away from democracy, the rule of law or the social system. Trump’s critics complain about dangerous cuts in all of these places by the policy of the President.

In advance, the organizers had expected hundreds of thousands of participants nationwide. In the end, they said millions of people participated. However, there were no secure numbers or estimates by the police. On social media, however, photos and videos of large crowds of people spread to many places in the country.

In Washington, demonstrators, among other things, called for the constitution to defend the constitution, to remove Trump of the Office and not to feel the social system. On others it said: “Hands away from democracy” or “stops the coup”.

Four women were among the demonstrators in Washington – Trish, Laura, Laurel and Jacky. Trish lives in the US capital, Laura, Laurel and Jacky from the states of North Carolina and Virginia. They consider what is currently happening in the country to be dangerous. Jacky criticized that Trump was a “prospective autocrate” who prefers to talk to the Russian President Vladimir Putin Anbandele than with democratically elected heads of state. “We respect democracy, we respect its rules – and this is a government that breaks one rule after the other,” complained Trish. Trump alienates the country from its traditional allies.

The criticism was not only against Trump himself, but also against Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who, from the perspective of many demonstrators, interferes as Trump’s consultants too much into government transactions. In New York, too, despite the drizzle, thousands demonstrated against Trump and Musk-the head of the e-car company Tesla, who is in and out in the White House. In the Bryant Park, demonstrators held signs with inscriptions such as “Elon the connector” or: “I can only write this here because there was a Ministry of Education”.

People protested against the dismantling of US authorities, including the Ministry of Education, against the circumcision of development aid, against migration policy-against everything that Trump and his government stand for.

There were also protests beyond the United States: hundreds of people took to the streets in the British capital London to demonstrate against Trump and his government – including a number of Americans who live in Great Britain. There were also protest actions in Paris or in Frankfurt am Main, for example.

Trump has started with the help of Musks since taking office to rebuild the state apparatus, to fire federal employees on a large scale and to adopt several authorities completely. With many highly controversial decisions and advances, he made outrage, both domestic and foreign policy. The Republican, for example, takes great hardness against migrants and minorities. On the first day in office, he threatened that the United States will “get back” the Panama Canal, if necessary with military violence. Since then he has also made the right to Greenland and the Gaza Strip and repeatedly called on Canada to become part of the United States. Democrats and experts consider his course to be a great danger to America’s democracy.

The people in the country also worry about their own economy after Trump announced a global customs package, according to which imports from almost all countries to the United States are occupied by punishment. This should not only affect the global economy as a whole, but also make prices for consumers rise in America. The new tariffs are added to various other criminal levies that have already been introduced.