Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in cities and cities throughout the country on Saturday to sound with the Trump administration cuts to the Federal Government and its policies.
Carrying home posters and singing “hands out”, protesters reached the more than 1,200 demonstrations throughout the country despite the rain in many cities, according to the organizers.
Several heavy democrats, including some members of the Congress, joined the protests and urged the public not to defend what they called the poor management of the administration and the rupture of constitutional norms.
The protesters attend a manifestation of “hands outside” to demonstrate against President Donald Trump in the National Mall, on April 5, 2025, in Washington, DC
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“Our founders wrote a Constitution that did not start with ‘We dictators,” said representative Jamie Raskin, D-Md., To the crowd gathered in the National Shopping Center in Washington, DC
Hatalized the administration for several of its policies, including the implementation of rates of President Donald Trump in almost all countries.
The protesters join against President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk during a “hands outside!” Protest on the land of the Washington monument, in Washington, DC, April 5, 2025.
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“Their tariffs are not only unbeatly, they are illegal, they are unconstitutional and we will change this,” he said.
Paul Osadebe, lawyer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, spoke during the demonstration in Washington and said that the Trump administration and the Elon Musk government efficiency department have asked him to receive a purchase offer.
OSADEBE, a union administrator with local CEF 476, told the crowd that the oligarchs do not “value your life or your community.”
“We are seeing that they don’t care who they have to destroy or who they have to hurt to get what they want,” he said.
People participate in a “hands off” nationwide! Anti-Trump protest in New York, April 5, 2025.
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The representative Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., He echoed his statement with a warning that he will worsen.
“They would make us believe that if I gave them all the control, everything would be fine,” he said. “But the latest news, they have control and look where we are now: mass inequality throughout the country.”
Similar energy and rhetoric were present in other “hands out” protests.
The protesters join against President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk during a “hands outside!” Protest, in Asheville, North Carolina, April 5, 2025.
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“The federal administration believes that this country belongs to them, and that they are above the law,” said Boston Rally organizers. “They are taking everything they can have in their hands: our rights, our medical attention, our data, our jobs, our services and challenge the world to stop them.”
People protest President Donald Trump, who was a few miles away in his Trump National Golf Club, during a “hands outside!” Demonstration, April 5, 2025, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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There were no reports of important disturbances or arrests in any of the demonstrations.
The White House did not have any immediate comments about the events.
