The opponents of the US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk gathered in the USA on Saturday and all over the world to protest the government’s measures to downsize the government, business, human rights and other questions.
In the United States, more than 1,200 “hands away!” Demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, unions, 2LGBTQ+ supporters, veterans and election activists. The Protests included the National Mall in Washington, DC, State Capitols and other locations in all 50 states.
The demonstrators stated the movements of the Trump government to dismiss thousands of federal workers, to prevent social security offices closely, to effectively switch all agencies, to deport immigrants, to scale protection for transgender people and to reduce federal financing for health programs.
Rallies have also been held in countries all over the world, including Great Britain, Portugal, Germany and India.
Musk, a Trump consultant, the Tesla, SpaceX and the Social Media platform X, has played a key role in the government’s downsizing as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He says he saves taxpayers billions of dollars.
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In the protest in Washington, Paul Osadebe, a lawyer from the US Ministry for Housing and Urban Development, and a trade union manager Trump, Musk and others in administration, because they did not evaluate the workers to “create a basis for economic security and power for workers”.
“Billionaires and oligarchs appreciate nothing more than profit and power, and they certainly don’t appreciate them or their life or their community,” he said. “And we see that they don’t care who they have to destroy or who they have to hurt to get what they want.”
In Massachusetts, thousands of people in Boston Common Holding sign, including “Hands from our Democracy” and “Diversity Equity Inclusion, makes America strong. Hands!” In Ohio, hundreds gathered under rainy conditions in the Statehouse in Columbus.
Roger Broom, 66, a pensioner from Delaware County, Ohio, said at Columbus rally that he was formerly a Reagan Republican, but was eliminated by Trump.
“He tears this country apart,” said Broom. “It is just a administration of complaints.”
Hundreds of people also demonstrated a few kilometers from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where he spent the morning at the senior club championship. People lined both sides of the PGA Drive and encouraged cars to sing horns and sing against Trump.
Archer Moran von Port St. Lucie, Florida, said: “You have to keep your hands away from our social security.”
“The list of what you need to endure your hands is too long,” said Moran. “And it is astonishing how quickly these protests have taken place since he did his office.”
According to the White House, the President plans to make golf again on Sunday.
When asked about the protests, the White House said in a explanation: “President Trump’s position is clear: He will always have social security, medicar and medicaid for beneficiaries. In the meantime, the attitude of the democrats gives social security, medicaid and medical advantages for illegal extraterrestrials that will crush these programs and American seniors.”
Activists have carried out nationwide demonstrations against Trump or Musk several times since Trump returned to office. However, the opposition movement has not yet produced mass mobilization such as the women’s march in 2017, which, according to Trump’s first inauguration or the demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter, which broke out in several cities after George Floyd’s killing in 2020, thousands of women to Washington, DC.
