Americans Rally in Biggest Anti-Trump Protests
By Yadnom Awu/Asaba
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps, even millions by some estimates, of Americans rallied late on Saturday in protest at what critics call the dictatorial tendencies of President Donald Trump.
The rallies held in at least 400 centres in the 50 states of the country.
Dubbed” No Kings” in America, the protests were meant to create public awareness of the alleged increasingly dictatorial tendencies of Trump, and to strongly condemn it.
The protests were largest in Washington , capital of America, and Los Angeles, California, which had been at the heart of anti- emigration protests against the raids by men of the Immigrations and Customs, on the directive of Trump.
The raids, which led to the forced mass deportation of foreigners, had led to dislocation of nuclear families and allegations of race hate and high handedness against Trump.
Some of the policies of the Trump administration had been controversial,including the ones on the admission of foreign students into the country’s higher schools, the withdrawal of funding to institutions, including universities, it considers non- compliant with its policies and philosophy, its policy on the Israeli war on Gaza and the West Bank, the unilateral imposition of sanctions on more than 100 different countries, the effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and the repeated statements that Canada could be America’s 51st state.
Trump caused national race recently when, on the heels of relatively peaceful protests at his immigration policy, he deployed troops of the National Guard and the American Marines to restore law and order in and around Los Angeles.
The protests, the largest and most widespread since he was sworn in for a second term in January this year, held as Trump marked his 79th birth anniversary, and the Amegican military celebrated its 250 th year of its establishment
