Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
… The No Kings movement first sprang up as counter-programming to a military parade spearheaded by the White House in June, leading to the largest coordinated demonstration against Trump to date since his return to the Oval Office. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful, and organizers at the time said they specifically did not plan an event in Washington to avoid a conflict.
The coast-to-coast protests went on almost entirely without incident, with one notable act of violence — when rally “peacekeepers” in Salt Lake City shot and killed a bystander because they believed another man with a gun was about to fire on the crowd.
The organizers of the upcoming rally largely brushed off House GOP leaders’ characterization. In a joint, unsigned statement, which they said they issued “after a few moments of laughter,” they pressured Johnson over the government shutdown.
“Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down,” the No Kings coalition wrote. “Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he’s attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings.”
The organizers of the rally run the gamut of the Democratic coalition, from labor unions to the Indivisible to Vote Save America, the fundraising and volunteering arm of Crooked Media.
Jon Favreau, one of Crooked’s co-founders, criticized Emmer and Johnson on social media, emphasizing that the first No Kings protest was “peaceful” with “American flags everywhere.”
“Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a ‘hate rally’ for ‘terrorists’ love our country — particularly its promise that we’re all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal,” he wrote…
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These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.Looking forward to No Kings Day.
Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b) posted at 1:04 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
JUST IN: Judge Ellis says she’s ordering all immigration agents to wear body cams in Chicago area operations, and she’s upset that DOJ failed to recognize what she said Thursday.
“This was not a suggestion, it was not a hint, it wasn’t a topic of conversation. It was an order.”
(https://x.com/jmetr22b/status/1979247225034207545?t=1CdVw7ouFTOJ3dYNigQx4A&s=03)
Chicago Breaking News (@ChicagoBreaking) posted at 5:39 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to block news stories https://t.co/WDWa047ag1
(https://x.com/ChicagoBreaking/status/1979316254939721911?t=HN2PI0z8bbsmuDQqoqow6w&s=03)
Chicago Breaking News (@ChicagoBreaking) posted at 6:53 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
With no takers yet, White House sets meeting with colleges still weighing an agreement with Trump https://t.co/JR6SybSbRr
(https://x.com/ChicagoBreaking/status/1979335079403958434?t=VF24K3TZidAo_TMbriBwBA&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 6:29 PM on Fri, Sep 26, 2025:
Black people and Jewish people tried to save this country…. never forget that….
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1971718780645789984?t=V6EuiEp8QVkbfQ50vJYH7g&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 10:38 AM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
People really gave this man 4 years…. we have 3.5 years left of this. He’s going to destroy America. I only have empathy for those people who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris…. because her voters 100% rejected this.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973049714737103260?t=6N4gg4HSFuJ2jr68qXzcYg&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 10:04 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
If you didn’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, then you don’t have the right to complain or be angry about anything thats happening right now because you knew what was at stake and you didn’t give one fuck about the consequences and ramifications of your actions.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973222582074945699?t=WHXcFE_1eQm1CZXJe4RWuw&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 1:30 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
No the fuck they don’t. Anyone who really gave a fuck about the poor, middle class, sick people, women, LGBTQ, Black people and immigrant had no business gambling with people livelihood because of their stupid ideology.
Name one Democrat policy that hurt people?
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973093047219917121?t=U5Bn3MUecFqW86UeYwwUQg&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 9:37 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
White people on the far left and Republican party didn’t see Donald Trump as a threat to society, and that’s the definition of white privilege.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973577965356327073?t=ShAzLJ-v9rsH9iNjqjlE8A&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 0:44 PM on Thu, Oct 02, 2025:
No one who didn’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris is going to lecture me on anything. Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. You fucked up an open book test on purpose.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973806376288989236?t=JCQIgc8fVpNDeJIFZjnciA&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 4:48 PM on Thu, Oct 02, 2025:
Because we’re not reactionary people. We showed up on election day to reject that motherafucker… now we mind our business….and watch yall do some work for once. Next time, vote better.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973867646782484651?t=QnokCXK0o8Uh2Ef1jWt3tA&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 8:07 PM on Thu, Oct 02, 2025:
Still not my fight. We dodge ice and police every day just being Black in America.. That’s why we voted by the vast majority more than any other demographic for Vice President Kamala Harris.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1973917767373041684?t=lubhZ28v7i4UUqQ1O4ic3Q&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 9:12 PM on Thu, Oct 16, 2025:
Leftists were celebrating on election night in 2016 and 2024…. but today, in 2025, they’re getting mad when we blame them for the current state of this country.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1979007658238640257?t=xpuLw0ozfoXUwtoyeVnLHg&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 6:52 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
Black people, women, and people of color had a very late start in life, while white men like yourself, David, had a head start in life.. stop being a fucking ageist. I rather an older person than a rapist, racist, misogynist…. before I look at someone age.. you privilege prick.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1979334719692267731?t=jCknN5vo1iU9byAlWYtT4A&s=03)
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) posted at 2:36 PM on Thu, Oct 16, 2025:
Erik Prince is a pathetic racist piece of garbage and a grifter who profits off playing like a soldier when he’s really just a mercenary
(https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/1978907953705992687?t=9CeNNbb6Ntu3cAEQdT5Dpw&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 9:56 AM on Thu, Oct 02, 2025:
https://t.co/ii2zOqXZBK
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1973763911993241949?t=qRV4U9KTBYj6eOIG43dOdA&s=03)
JUST IN: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan shoots down Elon Musk’s bid to transfer the SEC case against him to Texas or New York.
“The Court takes Mr. Musk’s convenience seriously, but it also notes that Mr. Musk has considerable means and spends at least forty percent of his time outside his chosen forum” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 3:36 PM on Fri, Oct 03, 2025:
BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion — says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration’s view of birthright citizenship is wrong.
https://t.co/gEl4WWUOlr https://t.co/afsRtQjadA
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1974211970808123410?t=Bd3N6DvDUaHYsrgOqdPN4Q&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 4:28 PM on Fri, Oct 03, 2025:
JUST IN: Magistrate Judge Faruqui continues sounding alarms about defective criminal cases brought by federal prosecutors in D.C.
This time he says prosecutors sought to “gin up” a charge against an immigrant for misreading a confusing form — just to jump start deportation. https://t.co/U7ZYjricc9
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1974225063894290461?t=ohWl0-PbN5iplF6MWQb4Kg&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:06 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
👀 Sources tell me and @joshgerstein that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019.
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1979308103700258839?t=Fb_4xpwu_MM-xsfiMd3i2w&s=03)
Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) posted at 5:48 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
If you know anything about Jack Smith, he is not a man who goes quietly into the night.
He will keep pushing on this simply because it is the right thing to do.
He will do so legally, and carefully, but he is not the type to stop.
(https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1979318628966371402?t=u6hZ9F4Zf2cXDtWHWETGtQ&s=03)
Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) posted at 3:14 PM on Fri, Oct 17, 2025:
Trump is rattled bc Jack Smith is speaking publicly. Smith said in an Oct 2023 court filing that he knew why Trump took the classified documents, what he was doing with them and would prove it in court. Smith should publicly share this info. It’s the main reason Trump is rattled.
(https://x.com/TomJChicago/status/1979279957827133694?t=wYZ2Y7BwIFSyN5WADaMz4w&s=03)
kevin blue (@kevinblue345) posted at 3:10 AM on Sat, Oct 18, 2025:
The reason why Smith, with zero political depth and knowledge, has been elevated to a political platform is that undermining Black political power is profitable and useful. https://t.co/yIfONOT3Jy
(https://x.com/kevinblue345/status/1979459939535065254?t=f5UO5v96c46jWaLQCRlqaw&s=03)
David Weigel (@daveweigel) posted at 7:25 AM on Sat, Oct 18, 2025:
Odd moment in the political corruption discourse, where basically any corruption gets pardoned or thrown out by a court – unless you’re a congressman not filing five-figure stock trade info, which gets you a legal black mark and a @davelevinthal story. https://t.co/jpyJLWc6zE
(https://x.com/daveweigel/status/1979524298013302797?t=LWx5e41yQrRazGccMIbrdw&s=03)
Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) posted at 7:36 AM on Sat, Oct 18, 2025:
Today’s No Kings rallies are an affirmation of what America is all about.
We are a democracy.
We have no kings, despite the fact that Trump has even said he wants to become one.
(https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1979526972704231510?t=PV6f7GEu3eILLRtBHOCoQQ&s=03)
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