Nationwide 'No Kings' protests against Donald Trump descended into chaos Saturday as violent demonstrators pelted cops with concrete blocks and stormed federal buildings resulting in multiple arrests.
For the third time, millions gathered coast to coast for coordinated demonstrations against the president, driven by anger over his immigration crackdown, rising costs and the ongoing war in Iran.
Protesters took their anger right to Trump's doorstep with a demonstration in Mar-a-Lago, as well as outside one of his California golf courses where tempers flared and clashes erupted.
Organizers expect the rally to go down as the 'largest political protest' in American history. Footage from cities across the nation revealed chaotic scenes involving protesters, federal agents and counter-protesters, with at least ten arrests reported so far.
On the West Coast, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a swarm of around a thousand rioters surrounded the Edward R Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles, according to Fox News.
The agency said rocks, bottles and cement blocks were hurled at police, leaving two officers in need of medical treatment. DHS added that two individuals were arrested for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement.
The announcement came amid reports of protesters launching cement rocks at DHS agents outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, while others violently banged on the facility’s fence.
In footage shared on X, officers responded to the massive crowd with tear gas, sending people scrambling to cover their faces as smoke blanketed the scene.
'Multiple' people were arrested in downtown Los Angeles (pictured) following the 'No Kings' nationwide rallies on Saturday
Outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles (pictured), protestors reportedly hurled cement rocks at DHS agents, resulting in the deployment of teargas
Millions gathered coast to coast for coordinated demonstrations against President Donald Trump (Georgia)
Los Angeles declared a 'tactical alert' for the city following several clashes (pictured)
Police are seen arresting protestors in downtown Los Angeles as part of No Kings protests on Saturday
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed to Fox that 'multiple' people were arrested for failing to disperse and that a 'tactical alert' was declared for the city, with tear gas deployed.
In Denver, another video posted to X showed a protest spiraling out of control as demonstrators moved onto a highway.
A line of agents could be seen advancing on several protesters while tossing smoke bombs in their direction, which the protesters then picked up and threw back.
Police in Colorado said nine people were arrested during the city’s protest, which remained peaceful until a small group blocked the road, according to Fox.
Authorities declared an unlawful assembly and, after repeated orders to disperse were ignored, deployed smoke to break up the crowd. When a smoke canister was reportedly thrown back at officers, they responded with pepper balls.
In Portland, masked individuals tackled federal officers to the ground according to Fox News. The city played host to at least a dozen demonstrations.
Video obtained by the outlet showed DHS officers clashing with 'agitators' as they shouted expletives outside the city’s ICE facility, where words including 'nazis' were spray‑painted on the building.
Additional footage captured a growing group gathering around the brawl, as some individuals hurled objects and advanced toward officers.
A protestor is seen being knocked to the ground by an LAPD mounted police horse as officers evacuate the area of Metropolitan Detention Center
DHS said a swarm of around '1,000 rioters' also surrounded the Edward R Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles
A protestor in costume in Los Angeles, featuring a depiction of President Trump's head on a stick
A demonstrator is seen throwing a tear gas cannister back towards a federal officer in Los Angeles
Also in Portland, footage on X captured gas‑mask‑wearing demonstrators breaking open the gates to the city’s ICE Detention Center, prompting federal officers to step out. The situation remained a standoff, as neither party advanced forward.
The confrontation escalated after the group shoved the gates a second time just as they were closing, prompting agents to storm out and attempt to push the them back.
Meanwhile, outside the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, a shouting match broke out between a 'No Kings' protester and a man wearing a shirt that read, 'DEPORT WHITE LIBERAL WOMEN,' according to KTLA.
The two men, mere inches apart, screamed at one another while others nearby tried to push the counter-protester back, shouting, 'Racist, go home!'
About twenty seconds later, the counter-protester walked away, yelling into a megaphone: 'This guy is fighting for illegal aliens,' while the other man was escorted off.
A separate incident in West Palm Beach, Florida, occurred after protesters appeared to chase a man wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat, according to Fox.
In video obtained by the outlet, a man can be heard screaming at the counter-protestor, 'F*** off, f*** off,' while another added, 'Your whole f***ing party is nothing but f***ing hate. You're f***ing traitors.'
The verbal attack came from both sides, with 'No Kings' attendees calling the man’s group 'pedophile protectors,' while Trump supporters argued against illegal immigration.
More than 3,300 rallies erupted across all 50 states including New York (pictured)
Organizers are expecting this weekend's turnout to break records as the 'single largest nonviolent day of action' in US history (pictured: arrest in Los Angeles)
An estimated 200,000 people turned out at the Minnesota State Capitol, marking the 'largest protest in Minnesota history'
An arrest being made during a rally in Memphis, Tennessee
A 'Quiet Piggy' sign is seen in Los Angeles, California, in reference to a retort the president delivered to a female reporter whose question he did not like
New York also saw counter-protests across the city, with some participants defending the president by saying 'he’s not a king' and claiming their presence was their 'constitutional right,' according to Fox Digital.
'I'm here to show them that, first of all, the United States - the last time I checked - we don't have kings. That's the United Kingdom,' Trump supporter Ronan told the outlet.
More than 3,300 rallies erupted across all 50 states on Saturday morning, with organizers expecting the turnout to break records as the 'single largest nonviolent day of action' in US history.
Organizers told BBC: 'Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant. But this is America, and power belongs to the people - not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies.'
One protestor, who claimed the Trump administration is 'destroying our country,' told Fox that the president 'can't bomb his way out of the Epstein files.'
The nationwide protests are being funded by around 500 communist and socialist groups, bringing in an estimated $3 billion a year, Fox News Digital revealed on Saturday.
In June 2025, more than five million people attended the first-ever 'No Kings' demonstrations. Just months later, in October, that number swelled to seven million.
Masked individuals reportedly tackled federal officers to the ground in Portland on Saturday
In Portland, gas‑mask‑wearing demonstrators broke open the gates of the city’s ICE Detention Center
Individuals are pictured attempting to break down the gate of Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles
Protestors are captured holding signs and upside down American flags in downtown Los Angeles, with cement blocks later used to throw seen on the left
An individual walks away as federal agents deploy tear gas at demonstrators in Los Angeles
For now, a real-time headcount of this weekend’s protests is nearly impossible, though estimates put attendance at at least eight million.
A White House spokesperson described the rallies as 'Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions,' insisting the only people who care are 'reporters getting paid,' according to the outlet.
Nevertheless, scenes of massive crowds have surfaced in major cities across Minnesota, California, Illinois, Washington DC, New York and Florida, with more than 40 protests planned in the small state of Vermont alone.
People even flooded the suburban streets of small towns, as crowds danced and waved signs on issues ranging from 'ICE Needs to Melt' to 'We Can't Afford the War or the Gas.'
From New York City, a bustling metro of nearly 8.5 million in a blue state, to the small eastern Idaho town of Driggs, with fewer than 2,000 residents, people rallied together across the country - including in states Trump carried decisively in 2024.
'It's reached a point now where - how can people ignore this?' Mitch Campbell, 72, told The New York Times during a protest in Oxford, Mississippi.
'They're just trampling on the Constitution,' he added. 'Whether it's gas, or the tariffs, or cost of living, or whatever, I mean, we're just not paying attention.'
An estimated 200,000 people packed the Minnesota State Capitol, where Governor Tim Walz welcomed Bruce Springsteen and a roster of big‑name speakers and performers, from Bernie Sanders and Joan Baez to Maggie Rogers.
A protestor seen being arrested in Los Angeles
In the Big Apple, protesters marched south from Midtown carrying anti‑ICE, anti‑Trump and anti‑Iran signs, as well as a large sign depicting the Declaration of Independence
A White House spokesperson described the rallies as 'Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions'. Demonstrators participate in a No Kings protest in Juneau, Alaska
DHS agents in riot gear seen arresting masked protestor near the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center
Two individuals are seen getting treated after being teargassed in Los Angeles
'This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis,' Springsteen said on the St Paul stage. 'Well, they picked the wrong city.'
Jane Fonda, 88, who was in attendance and highlighted the shooting of Minneapolis mother Renée Good by ICE agents, said she wasn’t going to make a speech ’cause we’re running late and there’s a bunch of people who have to catch planes.'
Instead, she read a statement from Good’s girlfriend, Becca Good, often called her 'wife,' though they were not legally married.
The turnout represented the 'largest protest in Minnesota history,' according to The Washington Post.
Rallies took place in downtown Los Angeles, where over 40 protests were planned across multiple counties: Beverly Hills, Burbank, West Covina, West Hollywood and Thousand Oaks.
Amid thousands of signs and American flags, a giant blimp of Trump as a diaper-wearing baby bobbed above the crowds.
'I'm very disturbed by the degradation of human beings and the destruction of our democracy under this Trump tyranny,' Rossana Foote, 62, told the Los Angeles Times, describing Trump's administration as 'inhumane.'
'We need to come together to show a strong voice, a strong movement that there are no kings, no one's above the law,' she added.
Federal agents are seen deploying tear gas in Los Angeles
A picture shows demonstrators holding up sticks attached with faces depicting political figures in Washington, DC
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, described Trump as the nation's 'Bully in Chief'
The protest is driven by anger over Trump's immigration crackdown, rising costs and the ongoing war in Iran
Protestors walk past the Trump tower during a No Kings protest in Chicago
High-profile California protestors included Kathy Griffin, who recently declared herself 'un-canceled' after her career was torpedoed by a 2017 scandal over a video of her holding an effigy of Trump's severed head.
The stand-up comic carried a sign that on one side denounced ICE as 'Trump's lawless militia' and on the other, demanded 'Justice for Pretti and Good.'
In the Big Apple, protesters marched south from Midtown carrying anti‑ICE, anti‑Trump and anti‑Iran signs alongside Manhattan's flashing billboards.
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, described Trump as the nation's 'Bully in Chief,' according to NBC 4 New York News.
'They want us all to be afraid to protest. They want us to be afraid that there's nothing we can do to stop them. But you know what? They are wrong - dead wrong,' she said.
In Glens Falls, 57‑year‑old Marsha Luzier stood among the crowd, one of many protesters who brought up the war in Iran, where at least a dozen US troops were wounded in a Friday Iranian strike on a base in Saudi Arabia.
Her partner, Jake Shumaker, 49, has a brother who is a combat veteran and was also seriously injured after completing three tours in Iraq.
'Our military is being deployed for oil,' he told The Washington Post. 'Or to cover for the Epstein files - let's be honest.'
Demonstrators march in Portland, Oregon where there were at least 12 demonstrations
A giant blimp of Trump as a diaper-wearing baby bobbed above the crowds in Los Angeles
Protestors march across Fredrick Douglas Memorial Bridge in Washington DC
Demonstrators rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
Americans living in Australia and their supporters attend a No Tyrants rally in Sydney
The Manhattan branch of the 'No Kings' protests attracted names such as Padma Lakshmi, who gave a speech at a press conference during the event.
Robert De Niro, a longstanding fierce critic of the Trump administration, could be glimpsed wearing an: 'I [heart] NY' pin amid a column of marchers.
In the nation's capital, where Trump has reshaped the federal workforce and used his executive power to alter the city's landmarks, protesters held signs reading, 'Fight for democracy.'
'Earlier, I was afraid of losing my job,' federal worker Kim, 56, told The Washington Post. 'But after starting multiple wars and foreign invasions - and persecuting Americans and "to-be Americans" - that broke some terror water in me.'
Protests took place in Boston, Nashville and Houston, as well as in smaller cities like Shelbyville, Kentucky, and Howell, Michigan.
Crowds also gathered overseas. In Paris, London, and Lisbon, protesters carried signs calling Trump a 'fascist' and a 'war criminal,' while demanding his impeachment and removal from office, according to the BBC.
Protests were reported in additional cities, including Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam, Sydney and Tokyo.
Saturday’s widespread rallies come as President Trump’s approval ratings have plunged to new lows, with even parts of his own MAGA base expressing growing frustration.
Many object to a war with Iran that has so far left at least 13 US service members dead and driven gas prices higher, contributing to economic frustration among protesters.
