Donald Trump and No Kings protest (Images/Agencies)
US President Donald Trump on Sunday has dismissed the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations against him as a “joke.” He also rejected suggestions that he is acting like a monarch.“I think it’s a joke,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in Washington DC while returning from Florida.Trump also insisted that he is not a king, emphasizing that the criticism was exaggerated. “I’m not a king. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all,” he added. Commenting on the scale and organization of the rallies, Trump said the demonstrations were small and appeared to be funded by outside groups. “I looked at the people — they’re not representative of this country. I looked at all the brand new signs… I guess it was paid for by [George] Soros and other radical left groups. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective,” he said.He reiterated his dismissal of the protests in a video posted by News Nation, saying the participants were not representative of the country. “I think it’s a joke. I looked at the people. They’re not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs. I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was. We’re checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country,” Trump said.The “No Kings” rallies, which took place across all 50 states on Saturday, were organized as a grassroots movement to protest what participants view as an erosion of democratic institutions and the expansion of executive power. Organizers estimated that more than seven million Americans attended events in major cities such as New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as smaller towns nationwide.Demonstrators carried signs and chanted slogans including “This is what democracy looks like” and “No hate, no fear — immigrants are welcome here.”Earlier, Trump had responded to the protests online with a series of AI-generated images and videos, including one portraying himself as a fighter-jet pilot and another depicting him dressed as a king outside the White House. Ahead of the rallies, Trump has dismissed the claims made by some protesters by stating that he is not a king. In an interview to Fox Business, he said: “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”